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Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When Half Life 2 launched, you had to register your game with Steam before you could play it. You had to give up your physical ownership of the product, and lock it to yourself. You couldn't sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.

That's what you were encouraging by buying from that shitfest of a platform.

I really don't see how bunging devs money for publishing rights is worse. The devs clearly don't see it that way.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You couldn't sell it to anyone else, or even let them play it.

Epic lets you sell your games to someone else?

As to your 2nd point I play my friend's games all the time. I haven't purchased Satisfactory but have almost 100% it on Steam playing my friend's copy.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. No. You can with physical. Well, before that just meant a steam key with a disc.

  2. That come much later. Try to keep up.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

So we're talking about everything except this moment in time?

  1. Epic doesn't have disks either so it's irrelevant to the discussion of Epic games. If you want to complain about eliminating physical media try talking about it in regards to someplace that actually sells physical media.

If Steam is bad because no physical media then so is Epic.

  1. But I guess Epic is okay because of how things are right now right? but I shouldn't bring up how things are on Steam right now? In direct comparison?

Pick an era in time you would like to complain about, and if it's the early 2000s then go bitch to people in the early 2000s. I'm sure many of them are complaining about the loss of physical media. People still used Steam anyway and now it's the norm. Now people are complaining about exclusivity deals, if people still use Epic anyway then that will become the norm.