When Rocket League dropped Linux (AND Mac OS) support, some gamers blamed it on Epic. Who's to blame for Valve dropping Mac OS support with their flagship CS 2? If anyone is to say "but Linux", it's worth remembering that their Steam Deck sales are heavily reliant on that OS, chosen to maximize profits because it's free.
www .macrumors. com/2023/10/10/valve-confirms-counter-strike-2-no-macos/

www .pcgamesn. com/rust/steam-auth-timeout

Mass timeouts affecting Rust players solely because of Steam. If this were on Epic, there would probably be a riot Perhaps they should move to EOS and ditch the Steam exclusivity though?

@2148850, at least you can spend it on games, not profile decorations. The closest Steam equivalent is probably the market where you can sell in-game items and use the funds to buy games on the store.

"But Steam has guides".
www .pcgamesn. com/steam/guides-jokes-reviews

forum.paradoxplaza. com/forum/threads/victoria-3-on-steam.1540234/
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Steam has no exclusives, right?

State of Unreal April 5 @ 11 am EDT
https : // www . unrealengine . com/en-US/events/state-of-unreal

Ah, Rose, we meet again!

Why deleted?

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please don't say remove the spaces Rose , it makes it look like you are actively trying to bypass Steam {LINK REMOVED} filters . Typos happen. Funny thing is we can post these same URL in your group chat and they are NOT filtered, so got to love Steam double standard URL filter inconsistency. Thanks for the EOS boycott list, not happening anytime soon. New free games available today @ EPIC!

Yeah, the Origin version in this case is just a proxy to the Steam version. Whenever it comes to any talks of Epic exclusivity, the haters treat Humble, Gamesplanet and other stores providing Epic activation as the game being exclusive to Epic.

Tomb Raider 2013 was just released on GOG after 8 years of being available only on Steam on PC. How is that for exclusivity?

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Remove the space in the URL. A surprising turnabout in /r/technology. Someone posts a link to an Apple-related website that tries to portray Tim Sweeney as a hypocrite but most of the top comments end up being favorable of Epic or at least not supportive of the notion of hypocrisy.

In a time of Summer Sale, mind you, a time where the store should be functional at all times.

Nearly 2 hours has passed with people being unable to add items to their cart or add funds to their wallet on Steam, clearly Steam is the superior storefront. /s

In all seriousness, I'm yet to add my thoughts on Steam vs. EGS. I will eventually make a detailed post (or a thread) with my thoughts on each... mostly focusing on Steam/Valve since it's the one I used the most.

nah they don't like pastebins.
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https://store.steampowered.com/developer/wolfire

https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/wolfiregames

Please do not ban me for URL spam Rose. That is Valve's job.

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"Just to be clear, does Microsoft ever earn a profit on the sale of an Xbox console?" Wright follows-up.

"No," Wright says.

Wright explains that Microsoft keeps selling consoles at a loss because its business model is set up to deliver "an end-to-end gaming experience," and that hardware is "critical to us delivering that gaming experience." These experiences include services like games, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass.

As noted by Protocol, Epic's questions regarding hardware profitability were in order to show that while video game console makers have a justification for its 30% revenue share as it is a primary revenue source for them, smartphone makers like Apple don't have as strong reasoning for their revenue share models.

https://nordic.ign.com/news/46025/xbox-has-never-turned-a-profit-on-any-of-its-devices

I believe Microsoft has been taking only 15% from app sales for a while now, too.

It's funny in light of Apple recently accusing Epic of security breaches, and communities like f epic run by avid Steam supporters being quick to re-post the statements.

Epic has had achievements for a while and its mod support is the same as Steam Workshop - the developers have the API and it's up to each to enable it.

I think you are simply looking for something social, but Steam is not even a good place for that. It's one of the most toxic social platforms because there is barely any moderation and even one bad actor can quickly irritate others and have it snowball from there, which happens here all the time. It's a vicious circle.

I looked at my activity feed just days ago and noticed something about the upcoming Life is Strange game, so I wanted to have another look at the store page. Clicking on the game title directed me to its Community Hub instead, with a post on the front page saying something about the game being "pushy about [political ideas]". I join gaming platforms to play games, not hear about anybody's misguided opinions about political or social issues. User reviews are affected by all the same issues.

When the Epic store came out and picked up Metro Exodus, I'll admit I was one of the haters. But now, my response is mild disinterest. I decided to give Epic a chance with Total War Troy, since I'm a big fan of the TW franchise and there's no lower price than free. I enjoyed Troy, but the lack of community features on Epic (multiplayer and mods were only added post-launch, and there's no dedicated Troy forum on EGS) resulted in me losing interest and I went back to Three Kingdoms.

Steam's various community features such as Discussions, Workshop, Guides, Achievements, and the Points Shop may seem like idle trinkets, but I've found that non-Steam games just don't hold my interest as much, and I plan to buy Troy on Steam when it releases.

There is obviously Tencent money in Epic too but I would focus more on what the money does. In the case of Valve, we know for a fact that they actively engage in censorship to please the Chinese government by proxy. In the case of Epic, Tim Sweeney was very open in his opposition to the infamous Blizzard actions and said there would be nothing like that in Epic on his watch.

Epic, not Steam and GOG, is in bed with China.
Uh huh [www.pcgamesn.com]

The idea of people being on Epic just to play Fortnite and claim free games is quite misguided too. Again, the official figures and unofficial reports shared in this group suggest otherwise and there is a lot of anecdotal evidence of people often using the coupons to get better deals compared to any other store.

Epic never wanted to be a monopoly like Steam (one look at EOS vs Steamworks proves it), so its position as a worthy competitor seems to be secure now, with a number of the upcoming games just announced at The Game Awards featuring both the Epic logo and that of Steam.

I don't agree with the idea of 2020 being "a much slower year" for Epic, implying that it was somehow worse than 2019. The giveaways brought a huge number of users to the platform, then the release of Rocket League played a major role as well, and it is the second most played games on the platform to this day. Epic have all the numbers for both years, so if they saw the decrease of exclusives as less profitable, they would have continued offering the opportunity at the same rate as before.

A good analysis of the store after 2 years: https://metacouncil.com/threads/epic-games-store.367/page-247#post-199723

The latest from /r/pcgaming :

"And that folks is the positive impact Epic games has had on PC gaming. Just keep on supporting them will you and in a year from now we also won't have these games supporting even the most basic features."

Epic has achievements, but let's blame Epic for a Ubisoft game lacking them anyway!

Agreed. It's undeniable, even based on the fact that Epic actively try to match the base prices of Steam games and offer coupons that can be applied on top of the discounts. The Halloween sale also started before the similar Steam sale and will go on for 3 days past it.

I remember when Steam had good sales, now I get more excited for epic sales.

Some of the anti-Epic crowd have said that publishers should not be allowed to use their Steam pages to advertise Epic Games Store, followed by Valve taking action to disallow that.

Now how would they feel about the developers of Gravewood High putting a Play Alpha button at the top of the Epic Games Store page, leading to the official website which states "Alpha 2 is distributed via Steam."?

Epic has regional prices, I finally have no reason to not like it.

Fall Guys got review bombed here on Steam for being too popular and well-received.
User reviews are great, right?

More on Valve cooperating with the Chinese government. [win.gg]
Yet Epic is bad for having Tencent own a minority share, right?

epic is the best game store rn

Relevant to why Epic chose not to publish Fortnite on Google Play until recently. [www.phoronix.com]

On the installation issues of SnowRunner at launch:

RandyButerNuubs 7 points 2 days ago
see steam wouldn't have this problem

LoyalOrange503 1 point 2 days ago
I’m pretty sure steam is better then epic. You wouldn’t have this on steam.


Streets of Rage 4 on Steam today:
https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/app/985890/discussions/0/2269195350110652724/

User reviews in all their glory:
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It already does, often offering better deals compared to other stores. My friend from Russia pre-purchased Detroit and Journey for around $5 each, thanks to the Mega sale and regional pricing.

Will epic have regional prices?

After the announcement on Rocket League discontinuing Linux and macOS support, /r/pcgaming and /r/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ were naturally quick to blame it on Epic.

Some even claimed the Epic Games Store has no macOS support.

As always, the accusations were false and the decision has been made based on the developers' intent to switch to DirectX 11 .

Those daily Epic giveaways really reminded me of the time when Steam was better and had flash deals. It made every new day exciting and I already miss checking for what tomorrow's giveaway might be.

Epic games did more for the indie devs, than valve could do

Reasonably so! The upcoming 12 games giveaway is very impressive on top of all the other contributions to gaming by Epic

I love epic games store