| Darwinianevolution said: All of this makes me wonder: if PC gaming becomes overly fragmented between digital distibution platforms, would we see someone rekindling physical releases on PC? No DRM, no download times, just buy the DVD and install it. Maybe it's too late for even that, but hey, one can hope. |
The other thing I've largely been taking notice of, the lack of mod support. Steam seems to be the only one with actual built in mod support. only 2 of Beth's games come with built in mod support, and no other client out there features modding support either.
Acti moved CoD to Battle.net, in turn it's become an always online digital coffee coaster (because it will once those servers go down), while costing nearly £60 (up to 3 times as expensive on PC as most games would go for). Beth has done this with F76 as well, so in turn, this fragmentation and style of "competition" hasn't given me any benefits at all, if anything it's made it far worse for me.
I'm not really a fan of having to use more than up to 4 clients, and I already find 4 clients a cluttering mess.
Also, another thing. People seem to forget that Tencent own a lot of Epic's shares, and so far Tencent do not have a client storefront in the West, so by default, Epic's new client could become Tencent's proxy in the West. I know how Tencent see Steam ads their enemy, and will do anything to Steal Steam's thunder (for their own gain, not the consumer's)
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