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Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2
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this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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Great to see that Epic didn't snatch that one up.
I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.
We would never had an Alan Wake Remaster without Epic paying for it.
Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second games launcher. If you wanted all games to only come out on a single launcher then you should have bought a console. Us console players are getting real sick of the endless bitching about Epic just because they tried to break Steam's monopoly.
Noone is a fan of exclusives but Epic's behaviour was explicitly to try and break Steam's entrenched monopoly and they legitimately offer far more favourable terms for developers. They've also spent hundreds of millions of dollars to break other monopolies like Apple and Google's. They are by no means the evil villains that PC Gamers make them out to be. The tactics they took with EGS were misguided but they've genuinely fought to level the playing field at the legislative level, they're a full tier better than an EA or Ubisoft who only ever try and squeeze as much profit as possible at every turn.
I can agree that challenging Steam is probably a good thing, but right now Steam just gives so much more value to Devs and publishers. Steam provides:
and that's just what I can think of, not including the player specific stuff like library sharing.
Devs and publishers pay more, but get a community and ecosystem in return instead of just a platform.
Reviews > Also available from websites that don't have a financial incentive to show good reviews
Remote play > Good example
Workshop > Also available elsewhere
Forums > Also available elsewhere on platforms that don't have a financial incentive to censor criticism
Cards and points stores > Bloat
Yeah but no one do all of that with the same tool, in the same place for every game.
Yeah, but think about how much money Valve has taken, 30% of virtually every single PC game sale over the past 21 years.
I do understand that there's more value provided, but that's the thing with monopolies, they can still provide more value than upstarts because an upstart has to build everything they did, while having none of the market share that they had to do it with.