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Can anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossible (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I do think steam needs competition because a monopolistic marketplace always ends bad, but also fuck epic and their whinging. It just feels like they expected to enter into the digital gaming marketplace landscape and valve would just roll over and give up.

Make. A. Better. Product. you dolts, its that easy. If you want to disrupt valves monopoly in the marketplace, you have to make something disrupting. A storefront that has 10% of the features steam has then trying to snipe developers into exclusive deals by trying to offer them lower rates isnt going to do the trick.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    There's also the whole thing where Tim Sweeney is such a dick constantly running his mouth that I hate him so much I won't even use his platform for free stuff. And there have been games I actually wanted that were offered. I still chose Steam and / or GoG over literally free because fuck that guy and the AI slop version of a horse he rode in on.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Make. A. Better. Product.

    Certainly easier said than done when it comes to Steam, given how much of a head start they have and the resources available to them to compete with any serious attempt, but it feels impossible to Tim because he spent all of Epic's time and money whining, litigating, and giving out free games instead of making the EGS better for consumers.

    Coming up on 8 years since its initial launch and they're only now adding "advanced digital commerce technology" like a shopping cart. All bluster no substance.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    Exactly, this very much gives off "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!" vibe.

    Not saying I have a clue what they could do to disrupt steams monopoly, but id gather one of the suits that Epic pays 7 figures to probably should get on that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    All they have to do is try to make something actually focused on customers, rather than focused on extracting wealth from people. Honestly, at this point, I think not sucking would be more than enough to get a foot in the door and suck up all the people who hate Steam for some reason

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