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vivster said:

JEMC said:

It's the fourth article in today's first news post.

I don't like exclusives on consoles, except for first party titles, and I like them even less on PC. In any case, I never buy games at launch so most of these temporal exclusivities mean nothing to me, except for letting me know how some of those developers and publishers that always claim to care about customers really are.

And in the case of Borderlands 3, to be honest I didn't like 2 and, after all the DLCs and GOTY editions that the previous games in the franchise have had, it's more sensible to wait for the inevitable GOTY edition of Borderlands 3.

No, he says that he doesn't mind if it's a short exclusivity deal like 6 months or so, not that it will be that short/long. And so far, all the exclusivity deals for the Epic Store have been for at last a year.

Considering you don't like Borderlands 2 you have forfeited your humanity and valid opinions anyway.

Also, why would you like software exclusivity less than hardware exclusivity? I'd rather install a million different clients than buy a million plastic DRM boxes that pretend to be legitimate gaming options.

In other news: Steam is down. If only it didn't also have timed exclusivity for 99% of all games, then I could actually play something right now. Isn't a monopoly a great thing?

I honestly don't know why I didn't liked Borderlands 2. I liked the first one so much that I bought the physical GOTY and played, and when I tried to reinstall it to play again a couple years later, the codes to activate the DLCs didn't work. So I bought it on Steam, and played it till the end (the regular one, not the big ass boss).

But when I started with the second... it didn't felt the same. I have to give it another go sometime.

Also, I understand first party exclusives on consoles because those studios belong to the hardware maker and those games are the main selling point of their hardware, so it would be fool to expect them to sell those games on other platforms.

But that's all I find acceptable, and for PC where everything works on the same hardware it's just plain stupid. I could understand, tho, if Valve, CD Projekt or Epic released their own games only on their store, but with third parties... no, just no.