Too much bs under the guise of a supposed to be balanced article that discusses both sides or whatever but in the end is just another form of Epic PR with the opposing side only mentioned to downplay it. They completely dismiss arguments by having even the people pondering the lack of benefits for the gamers proclaim the only issue with another store is minor inconvenience at worst (never mind most of these people were piling on the likes of the Windows Store for being shit just fine up until what seems like weeks ago, never mind everyone rejoicing when Halo & Bethesda games were announced for Steam, but now a shit service is okay and just a minor inconvenience, while conveniently ignoring the rest scandals/debacles) and then doing shit like in almost the same sentence talk about all the other stores like gog, origin, uplay, resellers and so on, yet also present worry about Steam's monopoly prior to EGS. Lol?
Also a pretense that developer exclusives like Valve's own games or EA's own games or titles acquired/fixed up by gog when nobody else cared about bringing them back are the same as buying up the release of existing games that were gonna come out on other stores before EGS came along. There was no backlash on gog because they offered things Steam didn't, there was backlash for Origin when it really sucked but it has since improved its usability and is for most inoffensive though they still buy non-EA games elsewhere, the same goes for UPlay where people have come to terms with using it for Ubisoft games since they had to get it in anyway even for their Steam releases, there was no backlash over Blizzard having their own launcher rather than getting on Steam, there was backlash at Bethesda's shitty service and, again, most of them agreed with that, but somehow Epic has to be different and special and be approved by all as the one and only true form of Steam competition because they bought out some games and media mouthpieces?
How do they pretend to not realize Epic simply must be fucking up in some way to get this kind of backlash despite their history on PC despite still being the holders of beloved titles and IP, and pretend people are out to obsessively defend Steam or misunderstand the concept of competition or capitalism when they magically didn't do anything of the sort for most of the other storefronts referenced to reinforce their points and so they work against them as they didn't get such backlash or if they did they stopped getting it once they got to a certain level of quality? They both downplay EGS competition as nothing new because of this or that store also existing prior but ignore said store didn't get that backlash or if it did they agreed with it. What are they on?
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