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
Like I wouldn’t be surprised if they secured borderlands 3 exclusivity for like 50M
Or more.
Damn. Imagine getting a million bucks. A few thousand sales. Then getting to rerelease it on steam and hype it up and get a truckload of more sales at full price
i'm more annoyed over satisfactory than borderlands 3
Gearbox is a shitty company
Just play factories.
Factorio
I was and am never going to buy a gearbox game
I'm going to pirate the shit out of it tho
i've played factorio to death
I wonder if that copyposta someone posted the other day saying it was from a gearbox employee was real
The 4chan post?
Who knows lol.
We will see if they leak the game.
