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Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems' (www.pcgamer.com)
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I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 109 points 2 days ago

Epic also generated a lot of bad blood by scooping up Kickstarter projects and ordering the devs to cancel the Steam releases, releases that had already been paid for by backers. A bunch of potential customers refused to buy from Epic on principle after that.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The timed exclusivity deals are what did it for me

Bringing that bullshit to the PC gaming market guaranteed I'll never spend a penny on their storefront.

If the carrot they're leading with is limiting choice, I'm not going to hang around waiting to find out what the stick might be if they get successful

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 days ago

Epic is doing me a favor, I get to keep my money while I play my backlog, then I buy the game on Steam / GOG for cheaper later on.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

I'm one of them. For all their trash talk about Steam being a monopoly, Epic Games sure pulled some hypocritical, anticompetitive shit in their attempt to replace one monopoly with an objectively worse, consumer-hostile one.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 13 points 2 days ago

Epic Games is creating a monopoly in PC gaming - they keep making bad decisions and leaving Steam as the only good option

[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago

Yeah that one rubbed me particularly wrong. Valve can be a bit hit and miss sometimes, but they've not actively monopolized games from other devs.

[-] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

Yup, that and pushing "exclusive" bs in general made sure I will never use Epic.

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