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If I'm honest, I don't disagree.

I would love for Steam to have **actual competition. Which is difficult, sure, but you could run a slightly less feature-rich store, take less of a cut, and pass the reduction fully on to consumers and you'd be an easy choice for many gamers.

But that's not what Epic is after. They tried to go hard after the sellers, figuring that if they can corner enough fo the market with exclusives the buyers will have to come. But they underestimated that even their nigh-infinite coffers struggle to keep up with the raw amount of games releasing, and also the unpredictability of the indie market where you can't really know what to buy as an exclusive.
Nevermind that buying one is a good way to make it forgotten.

So yeah, fully agreed. Compared to Epic, I vastly prefer Steam's 30% cut. As the consumer I pay the same anyways, and Steam offers lots of stuff for it like forums, a client that boots before the heat death of the universe, in-house streaming, library sharing, cloud sync that sometimes works.

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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

delisted all the unreal and unreal tournament games from all storefronts to reduce competition to fortnite. You can't buy any unreal game legit anymore, either have to pirate or scrounge internet archive. For anyone who doesn't know unreal was epicmegagames first flagship series, the one that printed the money for the foundation they sit on. Very dedicated fanbase and everything, and epic kills it. even the singleplayer campaigns.

[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

to reduce competition to fortnite

this doesn't make any sense, these games were never competing with fortnite.

delisting these games was a very shitty thing to do, but there is no reason for us to go around fabricating nonsensical motives to explain it. the far simpler explanation is that they didn't want to put in the work to keep these games playable on modern PCs.

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile Quake and Quake II just got awesome remasters..