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Zkuq on 05 December 2018
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Faelco said:
Zkuq said:
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, this sounds pretty neat, but on the other hand, Steam is pretty good and I don't want the market to become even more fractured than it already is.

Steam is actually pretty terrible and could cause a crisis in the video game market, especially because of the out-of-control inflation in the number of games on the platform. Developers compare this possible crisis to 1983 and call it the indiepocalypse, because a lot of indie developers could disappear (mostly on Steam and mobile).

Otherwise, sure, Steam is pretty good for the customers. But I could understand why some developers could be interested in alternatives. But not sure if this one will be able to get big enough, like all the other ones who tried and failed...

Eh. I don't know about that. I don't see anything that could threaten the industry in the large scale.

BasilZero said:
Zkuq said:
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, this sounds pretty neat, but on the other hand, Steam is pretty good and I don't want the market to become even more fractured than it already is.

Its gonna be more fractured as more companies will want their own share of the pie. This is as inevitable as more games, IPs and companies focusing on GaaS.

I know, I know. It just sucks.

BasilZero said:
Mar1217 said:
What's with compagnies making a one hit wonder game suddenly transforming themselves into a PC market app

Epic Games is owned by Tencent - they arent just a one hit wonder game company.

Hmm, I had already forgotten that. Now I know what to think about this: I don't like this. Rainbow Six Siege almost got screwed, probably mostly because of China, and now we're going to have a distribution platform with a huge Chinese company behind it. I'm not expecting many real problems but if it has an effect, it will almost certainly be a bad one.