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Alan Wake 2 dev won't speculate on Steam release, but 'hope gamers find it on the Epic Games Store' (dotesports.com)

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[–] derbolle@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i will use epic the Moment they drop their exklusivity crap. before that Not a chance even if the exklusives are great

[–] exscape@kbin.social -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is the difference between them and Steam really that great in practice though? This link has 30583 games that seem to only exist on Steam. But yeah, there's probably no paid deals involved. Still not a huge difference in practice IMO.

[–] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I do think people get caught up in hating Epic, but the difference is that if any of those developers felt like releasing on another platform, they could. The "exclusivity", such as it is, is just happenstance. Whereas Epic's exclusives are largely actual contracts.

99% of the games on that list are small-time indie games that only release on Steam because that's where the market share is, and they probably only have the dev capacity to support a single platform. Steam also has a lot of API support for devs. Those games exist on Epic too, but when people complain about Epic they aren't complaining about those games, they're complaining about bigger games that are artificial exclusives, timed or otherwise.

Steam offers the better customer experience, and Epic can't compete with it, so instead they just buy exclusivity rights to games. It's arguably anti-consumer, and definitely different from those games that just happen to only be available on one platform or another.