Indie Dev Snubs Epic Games Store

@heavenhole agreed.

@heavenhole . he didn't though lol he was adamant about this long before anybody started passing it around and it started to go viral

@blinkybe Because grrr Epic bad - Gabe & Steam good

@blinkybe Its because of the exclusivity deals that are are making players unable to play a game they already paid for

@blinkybe There are a lot of reasons Epic is the bad guy here. First, it’s like going back to the PS2 or the original XBox with the amount of features that are missing. If you’d been playing on the XBox One for years and you got used to the features of it, just an example: achievements, and now you don’t have those you’re gonna be pissed. Second, Epic says they’re doing this because Steam is a monopoly (spoiler alert, they aren’t) but Epic is “fighting” monopolies by becoming a monopoly? Exclusivity is just flat out stupid, paid exclusivity is even worse. Third, the store aspect of Epic is flat garbage, it doesn’t have a shopping cart function so you can’t buy more than one thing at a time, and if you try to buy a few things in quick succession, your account can be blocked for “fraud” If Epic really wanted to fight monopolies, they should work to make their launcher competitive to Steam, if they managed to do that, the game devs would come to them and the players would follow, but snatching up games for exclusive deals is just scummy and anti-consumer.

@blinkybe Because people don't like it when they have bought a game on one platform to then have to get another to play it on. It would be like if you preordered a game for Xbox One months ago and all a sudden devs signed an exclusivity deal with Sony just a few weeks from release and put it on the PlayStation 3. To a lot of people that's a betrayal of their trust in the devs and by association the larger corporation (yes I know on PC getting the other launcher is free its just the way some people look at it and supposedly the Epic Games client it bad missing a lot of features Steam has).

@SadlyBest she might have given birth

@bilboswaggings true, though, everyone who leaves: "dies"