It's no different to the entitlement of console gamers for a physical version. If publishers decide to only offer a digital version (or a few GB of the game have to be downloaded), it is also "only a minor inconvenience", but many console gamers will give bad reviews, even if the game itself is great.

A part of the Xbox-, PlayStation- and Nintendo-community is just as toxic... to the same extent. I really see no difference.

So Steam is the only store that can ever exist to game on PC?

It’s the end of the world when PC gamers need to move their wrist a little and click on a different app to get into a game?

Maybe, I don’t know... get a console and become a peasant? Since that’s how it works there.

Never understood this kind of outcry. Such anger for what amounts to a few different mouse clicks.

PC gamers? Maybe we should change that to Steam gamers.

1. Who said this? 

2. Do you even know what the reason for all of this is? 

3. How does it solve anything? 

4. Yes, you clearly missed the whole point. It has been elaborate countless times already what the main issue is. Just go throw some comment like the one of CGI for example. Maybe you understand what this "outcry" is all about. 

Edit: you can also watch this here to know what is going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoJx2Q_dR6U

Why do people generalize to such ridiculous degrees?  Do they not realize how absurdly ignorant it looks?  You're not making the groups you've singled out look bad, you're making yourself look bad for thinking a tiny slice of a group represents everyone.  

I mean, yes, you're absolutely right, Americans are so nationalistic that Sony and Nintendo completely bombed there.  Honda, Nissan, and Toyota sold like 7 cars combined in the U.S. last year.  It's so very sad, really.  Good job figuring that out from a dozen or so posts online.  

And "PC gamers," a vast demographic, you've reduced down to the few representatives who actually give a rat's ass about the "master race" thing while pretending that there aren't just as many console gamers every bit as terrible.  How does someone even pretend that with a straight face when you have "console warz" taking place constantly?  

Is it really that hard to think that perhaps you shouldn't judge millions of fucking people based on Youtube comments and forums that attract the most hardcore segments?

Didn't EA / DICE basically say the same thing to gamers with Battlefield V... "If you don't like it, then don't buy it!" Turns out gamers listened!

This is really dumb on the developer's part because isn't Metro's biggest install base on the PC? You're gonna refuse to release the latest installment on the biggest platform simply because people were upset about your exclusive online retailer deal?

I don't like Jim Sterling, but those who do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVWbfLqno

If you actually read the thread, you wouldn't have these questions. It's less about Steam and more about the Epic Games store. Setting aside a general lack features, the biggest issues of all is the always online requirement and no refund policy. If I buy a game on Steam, GOG, or Origin and my internet goes down or I take my laptop out with me and don't have net access, I can still play my games. You can't do that on Epic Games Store.

The number of people who want Steam to have a monopoly (or Netflix, to cite another example) , because it is convenient to them don't seem to realize that monopolies never benefit the customer.  And in the case of steam, developers and publishers are customers themselves.  And it sounds like an increasing number of them are tired of getting screwed by Steam.

I find much of this thread to be very frustrating.  So many people coming in with the attitude that ONLY ONE SIDE has any kind of point then trying to dismiss everything else.  From my vantage point, it just doesn't seem anywhere near that black and white.  

• There ARE people who have a legitimate reason to be unhappy.  Steam and EGS are not equivalent.  EGS does not have some things that some people care about.  That automatically makes this whole situation a downgrade to them.  No, it does not matter if YOU don't see the value in those features, because you don't represent everyone.

• There ARE people who don't have any real reason to care about the change from Steam to EGS beyond a bit of inconvenience.  I know I would gladly take a discount over that whole chart that's floating around (EXCEPT Offline Mode, which is actually a big deal).  However, that doesn't mean that someone who doesn't care should assume that NO ONE ELSE should care, either.  Likewise, people shouldn't downplay the annoyance of adding yet another launcher to a growing list of annoying launchers.  Annoying is annoying, and annoying does not become less annoying when you stack more annoying on top of annoying.

• Yes, some people are being stupid and are embarrassing the gaming community.  Yes, this does happen pretty much constantly.  There is not a fan base that does not have multiple instances of certain fans being dumbasses.  Review bombing previous games, for example, is idiotic.  No, this doesn't mean that a small group of extremists being stupid makes everyone else wrong by default.  Concentrating on that aspect is a disservice to those with a genuine argument.

Personally, I don't care all that much.  Not enough to scream "BOYCOTT," certainly.  I'd rather people not boycott en masse, to be honest, but I have no problem with people making a fuss and kicking up a lot of sand or saying that certain issues are a dealbreaker for them personally.  It's the responsibility of the consumer to tell suppliers what they do not like.  That should never be forgotten.  Hopefully enough has been done already to make Deep Silver and others think about how to better handle such situations in the future.  That should be the real goal, not to punish Metro or make the developer go out of business (seriously, that's so fucked up and childish).

That being said, I do think it's important to challenge Steam.  Steam has done a lot right but they've also been lackluster in a lot of other areas because they know they can get away with it.  Of course, I'd rather see someone challenge Steam by improving on what they do rather than just copying their formula, but cats weren't built in a day.  It has to start somewhere. 

Still, this situation is a good example of how not to challenge Steam--annoying and/or pissing off consumers is not the most clever way to increase your installed base.  

If you don't think that the Epic Game Store issue is a big deal, even with all the issues mentioned, then that's fine. I mean, a lot of these comments come off as if they are not even trying to keep an open-mind about possible problems in the matter, or as if they are ignoring the multiple comments which make it crystal clear why it's a big deal, but oh well. There have been a few gaming controversies that I've tried to understand and just couldn't, sometimes that's just how it is.

But what I don't get, is why the logical conclusion is to defend this deal. This deal locks a game to a specific platform, but not just a specific platform, a specific platform that a lot of people have a problem with. I thought we all agreed that more options are better for the consumer? I thought we all agreed that money-hatting exclusive wasn't good? I thought we all agreed, when the Xbox One came out, that missing key features like playing offline was an important problem to take note of?

I'm disappointed I don't see more comments along the lines of "I think this controversy is overblown, but ..." or "people are complaining too much, but ..." because a lot of the people who are defending the Epic Game Store aren't even defending it on the merits that it's good for anybody, just that they think people complain too much. They are complaining about people complaining, that's it. And that's just trying to minimize a situation and make fun of those who care about it, not trying to talk about the issue at hand. Credit to Flashfire, he was trying to make an actual point about the issue at hand and how a temporary sting would be good for the industry long-term.