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Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Epic fans can't seem to grasp that no one likes exclusivity deals for non first party games, and honestly thanks to MS and Sony even that paradigm is changing, trying to force them to use a sub par service and that people who like Steam also like GoG, green man games, humble bundle just fine and welcome actual competition without the exclusivity bullshit.
Hell even the recent case of Activision/MS the merger was even hinged as CoD potentially becomes a exclusive and calling that anti-consumer, for good reason, because exclusivity of third party titles is anti-consumer.
There we go with the exclusivity deals. That's the maypole the G*mers dance around this time. Heaven forbid you guys have to wait for 6 months for a random indy game you've never heard of. It's a bloody online storefront, you can use both on the same PC. But marks like you love to bring in the tribalism.
The fact you would even consider comparing this the Microsoft merger is insanity. Two completely different situations.
As for exclusivity of third party titles. I wouldn't call my local record store anti-consumer because it's 8-track selection was lacking, or my local 2nd hand game store because it doesn't carry n-gage titles.
This isn't like when your parents bought you the wrong console, you have the choice to use both.which is a lot more then what we had previously.