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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

G*mers are too Stockholmed by Valve's monopoly.

Introduction the Epic store to gamers was like introducing vegetables to meth addicts

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    GOG gave them an opportunity to stand behind actual principles, they choose gifs presented as trading cards and legalized gambling in the form of the Counter Strike market. The one thing Valve does good is not acting like a complete asshole like most people in the publisher sector (EA, Ubisoft, etc.) but they've certainly spear-led some horrible consumer practices under an effective monopoly. While EGS isn't anything revolutionary and are basically better terms of those horrible consumer practices, they can't even tolerate competition in that regard. The critics can call me out when I can play Half Life 2 and Portal on the Epic Game Store. Valve didn't even consent to having accounts available as inheritance even though at that point anyone who's not a greedy asshole trying to squeeze out as much money as possible as quickly as possible would have realized that that would sell them more games in the long term.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Acting like gamers suddenly care about Linux is a bold strategy. Valve has been going SteamOS when they began considering releasing their own consoles. Wanna compare the statistics of Steam gamers playing on Linux versus other platforms? Incidentally, you basically still have to jailbreak out of their cushy covers to play Linux games outside of their library in their consoles. This is better than what SEGA and Nintendo has done, but it is still tied to a profit incentive.

    Their platform is anything but simple. Anytime I want to play a game, I get bombarded with community features I don't want that attempt to tie a portion of that game's community to their platform. Buying games literally rewards me with bullshit points to try to tie me to their platform's community "features". Valve has plenty of games within its library that has kernel level protection, but yes, they aren't going to be pushing it if they have to rely on Linux for their console OS.

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