"We failed miserably"

Ehh. No not really.

Or, perhaps more nefariously "Tencent told us to stop competing with Epic Store"

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Wait

Nah. More like we just didn’t want to buy exclusives like epic was doing

The discord gaming store shutdown already

Wrc

Because that’s generally just a shitty thing to do.

true dat

Timed exclusives are w/e imo

Exclusives are shitty but needed.

It’s 6-12 month exclusives

And they aren’t needed.

Steam needs a strong kick in the dick to actually keep being not fucking trash

From a business standpoint, they're PROFITABLE, but they're inherently anti-consumer

only thing buying exclusives does is either making your game flop or making people pirate it

Same with GOG

They’re profitable only because of Fortnite

All their other exclusives have been not profitable I hear

how is GOG trash? genuine question, haven't heard anything about it in a while

Fortnight and it's glorious ten billion dollars

GOG for modern games. Has lazy developer issues

oh wait, i misread

They literally don't push patches to the Gog version

Buying exclusives is anti consumer and does not make steam better.

Because they aren’t competing on tech. Or how good their platform is

Just that they can buy games up and sell them on their store.

Which you really can only compete with money.

Which steam right now seems uninterested to do.

Epics platform from a developer standpoint seems superior too with better margines

Which is fine. Steam is privately owned and they have a lot of money they can just wait for epic to fizzle out lol.

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Steam has superiority now just in breadth of features on their platform

What do I know tho

steam is already established enough that developers will continue using it due to the userbase

literally just wait for epic to keep chomping at the bit and shoot themselves in the foot

More like wait for fortnite to die and then epic to run out of money lol.

since it's well, fully working (at the moment, the huge data issues a few x-mases ago was wild)

Reportedly, epic is spending a fuckload of money, in the 8 figure range for exclusives.

And they get stupid amounts of bad PR every time they do it