I'm not baiting, just clueless.
Why do peple hate EGS?
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I don't even hate it, I just don't think about it at all
>trying to create 'platform exclusives' on pc by moneyhatting games, sometime like a week or two before they were supposed to release on steam (metro exodus)
>worse feature set than competitors
>complains about steam being a supposed monopoly while itself acting in a way a monopoly would
>muh 12% store cut doesn't result in cheaper games for customers
>cancelled unreal tournament 4
The store cut thing is more on the Devs than the store. It shows their greed.
I've seen some products actually being cheaper on EGS, like Sniper Elite 5 2nd Season Pass, but then again, it was cheaper to buy it on key sites for Steam.
> complains about steam being a supposed monopoly while itself acting in a way a monopoly would
elaborate on this, in what way does EGS act like a monopoly
Bribing publishers to only publish on the EGS and nowhere else
Sweeney outright stated during the Apple trial that he doesn't give a shit whether or not devs get a fair cut on the App store and that he would have taken a special deal with Apple to get Fortnite back on the store.
It's blatantly obvious that he doesn't actually care about devs or consumers. He has indie devs sign exclusivity deals that make them unable to sell their games on Steam, but all other stores are fair game.
He simply wants EGS to be the new Steam and that's all there is to it, he's just mad that Valve beat him to the punch.
There's nothing wrong with indies getting a payout from Epic to host their early access jank then the full release comes to Steam anyway.
Yeah that's what me and my buddies did. The hypocrisy Sweeney displays is just mindboggling at times, it's like he lives in his own little autistic bubble.
How he didn't realize that giving away free games every week would actively devalue the other products on the store is absolutely retarded. Hades was out on EGS for a year, then came to Steam and became a smash hit. Nobody actually buys shit on the EGS so smaller devs can just take his money and run, then go to Steam.
>muh 12% store cut doesn't result in cheaper games for customers
fucking this!
It was a retarded promise for Tim to make anyways. He doesn't determine prices, which is what got him in trouble during the first major sale that got almost 90% of the store's games pulled temporarily because he didn't actually tell anyone the sale was happening.
Or the meeting they were supposed to announce it, the guy was so inept everyone left the meeting having no fucking clue what it was about, depending on what story you believe.
>cancelled unreal tournament 4
and what's worse is what took its place.
UT4 looks so cool too.
>two before they were supposed to release on steam
I still remember the shenmue 3 kickstarter
spbp.
Timmy wants Valve pie share, but its too retarded to actually put effort into it, so he uses chinese underhanded tactics and complains on twitter when he fails
Because their main selling point is free games but retards don't understand it's not a selling point here because everyone knows how to pirate.
China
But Steam and GOG were the ones who bent the knee to china and delisted games that poked fun at their dear leader
I don't give a shit about steam does on the chink store
I care if my data is sent to the chinks, which egs does
Steam does that too and they delist games that hurt chinese feelings from the global store. Steam isn't your friend and isn't looking out for you. It's just another business
Oh wow the chink government is gonna know about your futa ntr collection, it's over.
umm... because fortnite? its a le kids game.
anyways, let me boot up my nintendo device and play some mario or some gay anime shit
You're not clueless you're an egs shill.
Fuck off retard, I don't even have it on my pc.
It runs like fucking garbage, bullied it's way into the market by buying 3rd party exclusives, and doesn't have the basic functions that every other launcher has
https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/epic-games-store-c5719341124379/launcher-support-c5719357217435/how-to-move-an-installed-game-from-the-epic-games-launcher-to-another-directory-on-your-computer-a5720215231515
battle.net and steam don't force you to use this backwards, hacky bullshit just to relocate your library when you do a drive transfer.
I hate it because it's slow and some games I have to hook up to Steam anyways to be able to use controller
And fucking this
lol I was moving GTA V to my new pc and actually couldn't believe this was real.
>that link
hahahahha holy shit
This. I redeemed a 100+ games on epic and the piece of shit freezes if I switch the library to view them all at once. It actually stops me from even thinking about opening the fucking thing because I know it's going to run like shit.
Plus they removed chat with friends apparently? Why the fuck would they do that?
>Plus they removed chat with friends apparently? Why the fuck would they do that?
CCP law requires you to censor,mandate and control what people say or you will get banned from getting chinese money. Its also the reason why EGS has no forums,reviews or any form of user interaction
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1649240/discussions/0/3792632416044146608/
Jesus christ why does this game look so fucking bad.
I hate Tim Sweeney for being a dishonest, stone collecting, holier-than-thou, "I fight for the customer guys!!!!111" moron.
A combination of:
Corporate tribalism
It lacking of basic features that other similar platforms have
The exclusivity deals it does
It failing to do anything other platforms do
The CEO being insane
Sweeney is an insufferable retard.
Because Epic are massive hypocrites, probably. They keep saying Steam is a bad anti competition monopoly, but then they go and buy exclusives, which gives them a monopoly on them so they don't have to compete. And then they still act like they're the good guys.
it takes longer than steam to load despite having less features
Holding games hostage with inferior services
Unironically destroying some games because of this system
>Hyped up game suddenly becomes EGS exclusive
>No one buys it
>Comes out on steam a year
>Still no one buys it
You could say that these games would have failed anyway, but I honestly doubt it
sealioning gay shill OP
What's the point of it when steam already exists?
I dont enjoy using it because its slow. It takes 5 minutes for the fucking application to load all of its bullshit. I even bought control 2019 on steam in some sale (had it for free on epic) just so that I may avoid the egs
you could just use legendary/heroic, consoomer
>I dont enjoy using it because its slow. It takes 5 minutes for the fucking application to load all of its bullshit
steam is going that way too, now; someone at Valve is hellbent on making it run on the same shit and outdated chromium process that fucking hacks itself to keep you logged in and is extremely vulnerable to javascript exploits, it can't multithread and will brick older computers from the sheer amount of CPU% used when it's idling and minimized in the background.
Gaming platforms are basically Islamic fundamentalism but for 12 year old white retards.
Its just another online store front. Its better than the other ones like gog, microsoft store, uplay, and origin because they at least tried to see what made steam so successful and put some of that shit in. But people will act like its the antichrist cuz muh steam muh exclusives but it really doesn't matter. Basically the hate is complete hyperbole and the platform will stop being relevant when they run out of money to pump into it and it will just be homogenized into steam like everything else.
Sunken cost fallacy because they've spent a fortune on Steam.
attitude
shitty launcher
"all my games in one place on Steam" is very very important to PC gamers. look how GOG never really took off, despite things like 30 day refund policy.
You have a thing you enjoy. For decades who you get this thing from and how you play it was up to you. Eventually shit coalesced around one company and that was kinda bullshit, but you still frequently had options and were still free to shop around for better prices.
Now one day this fuck comes along with a chinese man's arm shoved up his ass all the way to the bicep. With the free hand, he keeps putting money in the fuck's pocket, and with that money, the fuck keeps paying people to keep the games you enjoy in his sandbox only. Not only can you not even shop around anymore, but this motherfucker's sandbox is dirty as hell, full of fresh cat piss and shit and other stuff you don't even want to identify. The sandbox you played in before was still a sandbox, but it was nice and clean, really well built, motherfuckers put in all kinds of toys to play with and a slide and shit etc. But the fuck says no, you want this vidya, come play in my dirty ass sandbox and get covered in cat piss and shit and little kids' snot and everything, fuck you.
Meanwhile the chink is clenching this fuck's colon with his fist to shut him up every time he has a vaguely useful thought, and waving him around to flail at all sorts of other sandboxes as well, whipping out his dick and pissing all over the place, though the owners of the other sandboxes keep slapping the shit out of him for it.
That's why.
You ok, bro? You're shilling so hard you're practically exploding. Man, I hope they pay you stress leave.
>NOOO MUH STEAM MUH 30% MUH MONOPOLY
>yeah okay Tim but why havent you said anything about consoles?
>UUUUHHHHHHHH
Basically this.
Hell. The EGS is basically mediocre but inoffensive these days. The problem is that Sweeney spouts so much seething bullshit about Steam yet the moment you bring up consoles he turns tail because Fortnite makes money on the Playstation.
Scummy practice of platform exclusivity. Pc players didn't like this shit with consoles, they don't like this shit with digital distribution platforms.
Supposed shady dealings with Chinese government, don't really care about this one cause one way or another I'm being spied by some fucking government but there's a big anti Chinese sentiment in the West.
Lack of features compared to Steam, Epic launcher is fucking awful in comparison.
Tim's squealing about muh monopoly and valve being evil when he's just another greedy garden gnome who's upset because he can't make the same money Gabe does.
And last and not least, sunken cost fallacy - sadly lots of retards on Steam treat the platform like some sort of personal collection with their gay backgrounds, achievements, showcases, avatar effects etc. The idea that all of this becomes irrelevant because of competition is causing physical pain among paypigs.
To me Steam is just a cheap and solid DRM platform that I use because it's reliable and has good sales, but it's a drm platform nonetheless and I'd gladly switch to shit like gog if they were remotely competent and competitive
No-one ever levels any blame for greenlight and destroying any and all quality control gaming ever had. You didn't have to search through 10thousand shovelware releases monthly to find the peanut in the elephant shit back in the day.
>No-one ever levels any blame for greenlight and destroying any and all quality control gaming ever had.
This was more because of Indie devs constantly fighting Steam because their game got rejected and they would cause a row on some social media website.
>got rejected and they would cause a row on some social media website.
yeah i'm sure it's that and not the fat greedy garden gnome being a fat greedy garden gnome
And then bitching even more when Steam dropped Greenlight and opened the floodgates, because when indies were bitching about wanting to be on the store, they only wanted themselves and no one else to be allowed on the store.
>No-one ever levels any blame for greenlight and destroying any and all quality control gaming ever had.
False, retards like you do because you think Steam invented shovelware and want pappy Gabe to tell you what you should and should not play.
>think Steam invented shovelware and want pappy Gabe t
nah, i just remember when publishers wouldn't fund abject horseshit, and further, buyers from videogame store chains would refuse to stock horseshit.
I too remember the days when the indie games market literally didn't exist because Valve hadn't created the infrastructure which allowed indie games to be commerically viable yet
>indie games
>shovelware
LRN2RD
The mechanism by which you can purchase shovelware is the same mechanism which has allowed the indie games market to EXIST. You can complain that Valve should spend more money regulating the market they created but they are still the only reason this market appeared in the first place.
>allowed the indie games market to EXIST
Okay retard
>Doom
lol
>Publisher: ID games
>Developer: ID games
try again retardo
The publisher was GT Interactive who are now known as Atari after they purchased Atari in 2008, zoomer
that was doom 2 moran
You can't even read. All you have to be able to do is operate a search engine you incompetent clown.
Holy shit ur a gay
>buyers from videogame store chains would refuse to stock horseshit.
The fact that you actually think this was EVER a thing just shows how clueless you are.
Good games came in boxes and went on shelves
Mediocre games came in garden gnomeel cases and went on the rotisserie or in the bin.
Horseshit was filtered by the buyers.
There are 30 new shovelware titles PER DAY on steam, there were NOT 30 new titles getting stocked in EB games every day.
Because of production reasons not because EB games refused to sell them, you fucking tard. Also you're wrong anyways and are only looking at PC games and ignoring all the shovelware that was on consoles
>Because of production reasons not because EB games refused to sell them, you fucking tard.
So we come back to steam greenlight opening the floodgates to horseshit with zero (0) quality control, exactly where we started pendejo
How would steam banning that horseshit change the fact that EGS is complete garbage
it wouldnt change the only pussy you ever touched being your moms either.
>Steam invented shovelware
Yes
>buyers from videogame store chains would refuse to stock horseshit.
LMAO. Game stores have had shovelware bins for ages, what is this shitty attempt at gaslighting. You can even go back to the fucking Atari when they tried selling ET as if it was something decent. Shovelware has always existed and you're a literal drone if you think it's a good idea to have a team of people tell you what you're supposed to buy. Steam is a store that list games, that's all it needs to be. It's no different from Amazon or the App Store. It's on the developers to actually advertise what they make and stand out from the crowd.
>Game stores have had shovelware bins for ages
Now steam is that shovelware bin.
Timmy bringing exclusives to PC.
Timmy seething at Valve 24/7.
Timmy in general.
And Epic just opened their floodgates so you'll the the same pile of shovelware on EGS. At least people may actually buy your game on Steam.
>And Epic just opened their floodgates
It's okay when the garden gnomes do it
>Supposed shady dealings with Chinese government
If I were to make a list of who I'm most concerned about spying on me -
My own government would be at the top
Then any governments who have an explicit information sharing agreement with my government
Then any companies who are an effective 4th arm of a government who has an information sharing agreement with my government like Google
Then any governments who are otherwise allied with my government and would be immediately willing to share information with them
Then China, a country on the other side of the world which doesn't speak my language, doesn't have any reason to care about me and is actively hostile towards the idea of intelligence sharing with my own country would be WAYY down the list, slightly above Trinidad and Tobago
That being said, Fuck EGS and it's anti-consumer bullshit. Valve made PC gaming what it is and they deserve the success that they've had.
China is getting your data
i don't hate it, i just like steam more
the only game i've bought on epic was tony hawk's game 1+2 remake just because it was for like 10$
The owner is the biggest hypocrite on earth and blatantly anti-consumer. A years ago he proclaimed the death of the PC for gaming and shifted his attention to consoles. Meanwhile Valve started the Steam store and he came screeching back saying he deserves a piece of their money because... because he just does, okay?
He lies constantly and the EGS store is where games go to die. It's a shitty, bare-bones hackjob with less functionality than the Uplay store and the ugly-ass lying gay who owns it buys exclusivity deals with developers because he can't make people use it otherwise.
And it doesn't even work, people just ignore the games until the exclusivity deal period is up.
It's a miserable failure in every single way and you have to wonder why they don't give up. Sunk cost fallacy, I guess.
>The owner is the biggest hypocrite on earth and blatantly anti-consumer
Timmy really is.
>Says he doesn't want nfts on his platform.
>some time later Valve also says no to nft games.
>timmy all of the sudden wants nfts on his store.
It's not like it's harder to pirate their stuff so who cares about "exclusivity"
Their CEO is a man child that thinks game devs are oppressed, but when in reality no one is oppressed, he just wants to have more of the PC and mobile gaming pie. Look at the Apple lawsuit lmfao.
That and the exclusive rights purchasing goes against what he claims about making the PC market open and competitive, rather than healthy competition it's locking people out and forcing them to use a platform to play a game.
Though this just means most people wait for it to come to Steam or GOG much cheaper a few years later, and often not even bother at that point.
Their store front,1, although having improved slightly recently, STILL doesn't have core features and ease of use., A monkey could design a better UI.
I don't hate EGS, just nothing about it is better than what I already use. You want a healthy competitive gaming market? Actually build a competitive product instead of waving cash under dev's noses.
>Their CEO is a man child
Talk about projection
Sorry Tim, but it's true.
Your post was essentially just 'no u' anon. Apply yourself. Stupid gay.
>Stupid gay.
Yes you
Reminder
>1% of sales
so steam is the prefered platform of homosexuals and pedophiles is what i'm suppose to take away from this?
Lol, steamdrones.
>Meanwhile Saints Row is one of the 10 best selling games on EGS
Lol, epicdrones.
mostly brand obsessed idiots and schizos.
they're all in it to make money and screw the customer, Epic is trash, but it's better if there some competition.
>but it's better if there some competition.
Man you could get lynched around these parts for saying that
Epic is "competition" the same way a piece of gum under a train seat is competition to a steak dinner.
okay dobson
sure buddy..
it's still something if you're hungry enough
Has Epic ever had any fantastic exclusives? I instantly associate Epic Exclusivity with an average product
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_exclusive_to_Epic_Games_Store
>all flops
Goddamn
I still find it funny that enough peoole spent 300 million on non-Fortnite stuff om the Epic store.
Because rather than trying to provide consumers with a better experience, it was simply a proxy war against Apple and Valve spearheaded by an arrogant autist who should go back to being a programmer.
>Unreal… Tournament? Why would you play that when we have Fortnite?
I'll never forgive them for letting UT die
UT didn't die; it was murdered.
Brand loyalty with steam
There's just some games I won't even play and I never even notice that they've released when they're on EGS. It never bothers me either. I do not use that game store.
I use the fuck out of UE though.
1) Tim Sweeney is an odious gremlin
2) the whining about Valve being a monopoly despite Ebin practising monopolistic market strategies (the fact they fuck them up is irrelevant)
3) trying to cut the consumer out of the equation by bribing developers rather than improve basic functionality for their store
Their only positive is giving away free games, but the problem is that people are immediately distrustful of free shit when the person offering is shady, because they assume the other shoe is going to drop at any moment,
The only thing EGS is good for is letting you know what games to avoid because they took the chinabux. Not a single game that took the EGS exclusivity deal turned out to be good, only mediocre at best. It's a valuable service, it saves me time and money and I don't have to even install that spyware on my PC.
Hades is the only one I can think of
Yeah, mediocre. At best.
I dont hate epic because my >90 Iq allows me to understand SOME downsides to having monopolies and that having competing stores with great financial and technical backing is necessary for a healthy environment for pc games.
>my >90 Iq
get out
I'm about to fucking buy Strangers of Paradise if it doesn't come to Steam soon.
Anyone know offhand if co-op works with Legendary?
1.Chinks
2.Bribing developers instead of competing through merits. They've already made it clear they only cater to game developers instead of the customers.
3.Chinks
4.I hate Fortnite
Google lawsuit when? I had so much fun with the Apple one.
I like it.
At its core, trying to play the console exclusivity retarded game on PC. As people say - play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
they gambled the entire fortnite ios playerbase in a gambit to get more money from apple, then patted themselves on the back for how consumer friendly they are
Because lil Timmy pretends he is a crusader for gamers when in reality he's just trying to squeeze more profit and market share for his store.
Brought console wars to PC gaming
People hate him for the same shit they love Gabe for. They're all the exact same greedy disingenuous fat fucks. The only difference is little Timothy is butt ugly so he's not going to be able to build a cult of personality like Gabe did.
Their mission statement openly states they place publishers over players, and their store development policies follow suit.
Despite their outspoken stance against monopolies, they use monopolistic tactics of their own, and actively oppose attempts at diminishing PC gaming's reliance on Microsoft OSes, going so far as to unport games.
The lower prices that the lower store cut was supposed to enable never materialized.
I don't hate it.
I just don't use it, and I see no reason to.
I hate tim sweine and unreal engine. Simple as that
Also Timmy is still big into NFT shit even though it's dead as a doornail.
Reminder he's only supporting crypto because Gabe isn't. He was firmly against NFT and crypto shit on EGS at first. Then literally hours after Gabe says Steam won't allow them, Tim immediately swings back and does a complete 180 on his stance.
His business strategy is just being contrary to Valve at all times.
I hate it for trying to strong-arm me into joining their platform by actively seeking exclusivity deals with many games on their platform.
Their client is pure trash. The last time i used it was during the ds giveaway, decided to buy the upgrade since it was 5 bucks. After buying it i checked first if it had a separate version of the client for the directors cut, but it didnt. Dled that shit and right after it finished a separate client did appear in the library for the dc version, so i had to uninstall the base game and redownload the dc version.
Besides bugs like that, its slow, ugly, unresponsive and a pain to navigate your library
>takes longer to update and start than even other Electron webshit
>shitty UI and UX even compared with Steam
>lack of features despite a 'roadmap' planned 4 years ago
>finally a true competitor to valve I'm sick of how lazy they are
>does literally nothing for 3 years while steam gets a whole bunch of new features and hardware releases
Does anyone actual play videogames anymore or just argue about platforms?
laggier than fucking steam while having the less features than steam.
Also timmy being a hypocrite. Thats literally it.
>boomers argue over moronball
>zoomers argue over online shops
yeah but nintendo fags r gay and ps5 chads slay
Because it's chinkshit
In case you are really not baiting
Shit service, with less functionalities and games than steam years ago, relying on exclusivities and more focused on having a PR war against steam rather than becoming an actual competitor by its own merit.
They survive solely on Fortnite (for now), the unreal engine and telling investors the platform is very much alive and to invest more.
steam was annoying garbage for at least 10 years
>if I stack all these windows on top of it then surely people will think this is what everyone did!
Yawn.
Probably should of stacked some gay porn to get ur attention m8
and if Epic had come out back then it would have been more popular
yes, consumers are literally that retarded
Maybe Epic should have done that instead of chasing that console money.
>Steam had more features on launch in 2003 than EGS has today in 2023
wow
Do zoomers really need gold stars and other virtual rewards to continue playing bideobames?
That's literally what season passes and skin shops are about
Prior services being shit in prior years does not excuse a new service being even less functional than that service.
Need I remind you about the fucking cart? People were getting their credit cards locked for buying in the EGS because of it. How much time did they need to implement it again?
Lack of functionality and/or appalling storefronts it literally what it's all about. See Amazon, Insta, google etc
>its supposed to be shit!
Why even bother arguing with epic shills lol
>Why even bother arguing with epic shills lol
Coz you fucking love it m8
Its like consolewars, just even more cringe since its just storefronts and not even platforms
>its just storefronts
This thread is entirelty pajeets v hues coz neither can afford to play games so they just argue about shops
I primarily use steam, but I've got over 100 (probably 150 now) games on epic for free and I have only actually paid for 3 of those.
I'd say I hate the overreach of China into games media, but I honestly prefer them to the USA with all their pro gay and moron stuff. Steam has now had pro gay screeds over its front page so I can't even excuse them and just blame publishers like I used to. Epic is still inferior due to not having forums, reviews, workshop; but I don't actually use steam primarily for forums, reviews or mods; so this hardly matters.
Its a bit like Rise vs World. Yeah, world has eco systems and better graphics; but do I play MH to follow insects around and watch how Odogaron interracts with Deviljho? No. It might be cool to see it happen once, but the game is primarily about killing stuff and making gear. And Rise does that marginally better, so I prefer Rise, even though World does have all those other features that Rise doesn't. Those features just don't matter. So even though Steam has workshop, reviews and forums; it doesn't give me free games. And free games are better than heavily discounted games. I still use both though, but I won't let the lack of features make me hate Epic like it seems to with other retards.
Epic Gay Store
I just don't really care about them.
I keep adding the free games though.
Tim is a gay though.
>buys out your 20 dollar game (8 on sale)
>starts selling in game items that you got for free for playing for 6-10 bucks a piece
>removes half your maps
>leaves
And to think rocket league gave you over 500 legacy items just for playing the free weekend years ago
>Play Fall Guys nearly every day until Mediatonic announced they were bought by Epic
>Deleted the game because I knew it would turn into a F2P shithole and require an EGS account
And I was right. I never expected they would remove levels so it was even worse than I imagined.
Epic buying exclusives got people mad, if it wasn’t for that they probably would have flown under the radar
inb4 origin/uplay/battlenet did it first”
It’s your fault for playing garbage from those publishers, and now they’re all running back to steam anyway
>timmy seething about steam 24/7
>actually paying shills to shit on steam
>buying exclusives
i will never use that filth
EVER
i might've used EGS to play square enix's games if they worked correctly, but they all have always online DRM. if tim tam swim swam wanted me to buy games on his fortnite launcher, he'd best bribe publishers to release games on it that aren't intentionally defective.
>claims to be there for the indie developer
>causes damage to developer reputations via paid-off exclusives
>store's a convoluted shithole that no one wants to buy from so the developer doesn't get sustainable income
>muh 12% isn't even appealing anymore, and EGS have said in the past they plan to switch to the standard 30% since its not sustainable
>now they have to pay $100 to self-publish on EGS with little to no hope of recouping the costs
their one big gimmick and they fucked it up
to be there for the indie developer
lol
I wonder how devs who antagonized their audience over the exclusivity deal (like the Ooblets team) are doing right now.
Hopefully poorly.
Okay Rajeesh if you're still in this thread I can give you a few things to pass onto your supervisor who'll hopefully pass this to epic upper management.
Epic needs to
>Immediately end all exclusivity contracts in the works
>Rebuy the 40% share owned by tencent
>Completely revamp their store with community support like modding workshops, user reviews/curators, working friends list
>Add an incentive to use the launcher like selling 70$ games for 60$, 60$ for 50$, rework free game tokens into a subscription service of free games to sweeten the idea with investors
>Allow downloading of the current unreal engine outside of the EGS launcher without having to build the executable yourself
>Rebrand you Fortnite v-bucks cards to also be usable for epic games store account(super good for incentivizing overlap from Fortnite players and actual EGS users+third worlders are more likely to use your store)
Hopefully this helps earn you an extra rupee or two from management.
>I'm not baiting
The fact that you know asking is baiting tells everyone that you've seen and had this conversation before. You don't get to act ignorant.
owned by the chinese state. no other justification needed.
They are dumping China money to kill Steam so they can dominate the PC market, with a pretty obvious intent to force restriction on customers, and increase their cut once they dominate it.
Only selling point of EGS is that they have money, and they are willing to temporary burn it for future gains, gains that will be earned through treating customers like shit in the future. Basically same thing as Netflix and all the other streaming services are doing now, it's the current meta for establishing an online service.
Steam has its own heaps of problems but atleast Valve didn't start the business with an intent to dominate the market, and enslave the customers. EGS is not a "healthy competition", GOG is, but EGS definitely isn't.
They don't allow key reseller amd I'm not paying 60 euros for a digital game
>My post directly calling OP a paid analyst doing grunt work for epic and me giving him legit good ideas to pass to his boss got deleted.
Legitimately hilarious.