• mayTay@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s better than keeping them artificially locked behind a launcher for no reason whatsoever, yes.

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        1 year ago

        So just let me get that straight.

        You also don’t like exclusives and want ppl to be able to play the way they want.

        …and somehow Playstation - actively releasing their games on PC, investing time, money & effort - are worse than Epic who just want to lure ppl to their store/launcher and actively taking away the choice of playing method?

        Alrighty then…

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          Epic also releases their games on PC lol

          And they release them day 1, without the multiple year wait from console release, and not as shitty ports. Fuck yes that’s better than PlayStation, it’s a no-brainer.

          I’m truly baffled that anyone could have this take seriously. PC =/= Steam.

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            1 year ago

            Wow… Seriously? No they release it for their launcher exclusively not for pc.

            If you’re talking platforms Sony is WAY MORE OPEN than Epic ever will be, we can just pray they fail hard and this practice doesn’t become the norm (again)

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              1 year ago

              No they release it for their launcher exclusively not for pc

              So anything that only releases on Steam is also an exclusive and “not for pc”?

              If you’re talking platforms Sony is WAY MORE OPEN than Epic ever will be

              Because Epic Games Launcher is only PC? Then Sony is also better than any company that releases only on Steam for PC?

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                1 year ago

                Yes. If it’s paid to ONLY be on Steam.

                If we follow your “logic” yes.

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                    1 year ago

                    Okay I’ll give up after that one.

                    Sony & Xbox once used to have exclusives for their platforms. Xbox opened up completely and releases everything to PC as well. Sony opened up later and now brings their games to PC as well. Sometimes a year later, sometimes a month. So they’re multi Plattform now and you can choose where and how to play it.

                    EA and Ubisoft decided to open up their LAUNCHERS and give you the choice where to buy& play - it’s not completely open, because often you’ll still need their browsers but it’s a step in the right direction.

                    So the trend seems to be to open up more to reach more people and sell more games that way.

                    EPIC on the other hand is completely closed, buying exclusives for their launcher or for a certain time. It’s a shitty approach to force people to their store and they still aren’t profitable - that’s the only good thing about epic proofing that this approach doesn’t work anymore.

                    Are Sony/Xbox/EA/Ubisoft perfect? No. - but they all get that being more open is the way to go. They don’t do it because they’re nice or want us to be happy with games - They do it because it’s profitable, but coincidentally that’s a good trend that’s worthy of support.