I enjoyed the part where you implied the only thing PC has over console are sim and strategy games. As if there aren’t literally loads of good titles that come out yearly on PC, usually 1/3 to 1/2 the AAA price, with free online play in those titles that support MP, while you go crazy for the three or four worthwhile $60 exclusives PS4 or Switch will get every year. And these PC games take years to come to console, if they ever do.

As for anti-consumer, of course not. When Sony bought multiple Tomb Raider games on PSone, they were looking out for their consumers. Same with MS and Shadow of the TR. Same with Epic and the EGS.

Yes and no.They force you to get a console that you may not like completely, but at the same time, it incentivizes competition, and competition forces developers to make better games.

Well first part is definitely fine, but third party is more iffy. Problem is if a third party is purchased and made first party, is it ok to make their IP exclusive?

When I decide to go steady with a girl, and make her exclusive, there's a reason I want her all to myself, and everyone else, as Mattrick would say, can just deal with it. If she cheated on me and used the argument that it would be anti consumer to lock herself down to just me, well that wouldn't fly. If she chooses to become first party, knowing the expectations, then she's made a choice and has to deal with the positives and negatives, and so does everyone else. Now if there's no strings attached and we were both cool with that, then we would both get what we wanted and others could benefit as well. Not everyone has the same tastes and expectations when it comes to relationships though, and the same with gaming. Both companies and consumers want different things. Everyone just has to make a choice based on what's available.

Moneyhats are bad. That's the only thing really.
Bayo 2 or 3 are not bad because without Nintendo these games would never be made.

You don't want rise of the tomb raider deal that deal killed the franchise

Third party exclusives, yes. The Tales of Vesperia exclusivity to the 360 in the West for so many years was a nightmare...literally a nightmare. Thankfully now I can play the game on my ps4.

No. Exclusives receive extra funding to get the best out of the hardware. It's only in the interest of the consumer if they want to enjoy the full potential of the hardware they spend good money on.

There are small developers out there that only work on one platform. They are too small to port to all the different consoles.

Bit of a stretch.

The issue isn't so much the Epic store having exclusives, the PC is an open platform.
Steam has exclusives, Battle.net has exclusives, uPlay has exclusives, Origin has exclusives... No one really gives a shit.

What is pissing people off is that games that used to be available on all the popular digital distribution stores are being money-hatted behind a single store front.

Or ironically games that were being released on one Storefront (Steam) are suddenly being cancelled and moved to another Storefront, some users were waiting for the games full release on Steam to take the plunge... But have had that opportunity taken away.

It's a shit situation. And people are pissed. Deservedly so.

But no way is the bulk of the PC community Anti-Exclusive. We are just Anti-Bullshit.

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The PC itself has exclusives that consoles don't get though and vice versa, that has been happening for decades, no one really cares.. It's a selling point that draws consumers to a particular platform.

I.E.
- If Xbox didn't have Fable or Halo, there is no way I would have purchased an Original Xbox console.
- If The Super Nintendo didn't have Donkey Kong Country I would never have purchased a SNES.
- If the Nintendo 64 didn't have Golden Eye and Perfect Dark I wouldn't have purchased an N64.
- If the Playstation 1 didn't have Final Fantasy 8, I wouldn't have purchased a Playstation 1.

And just like with the PC, games like Command and Conquer, Age of Empires, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Dungeon Keeper, Alpha Centauri, Civilization, Diablo, Neverwinter Nights, Baulders Gate, Icewind Dale, Arcanum, StarCraft and so much more drew me into the platform and it's been my primary platform since.

I think exclusives are important for every platform, it gives a platform it's identity.
Myself and I assume the bulk of the PC community just hate bait and switch tactics.

No. Play God of War...if that game isn't the result of a labor of love then I don't know what is. It is no coincidence that the greatest Looking games are exclusives (Uncharted, HZD, GoW) as resources are devoted to a single platform. It also fuels healthy competition which fosters quality. MS is probably pushing for Halo 6 to be a mind blowing game in order to steal some of Sony's thunder, Sony has won this gen on the strength of its exclusives.