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JEMC said:

vivster said:

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.

That doesn't make any sense though. It's fine to make exclusive games to promote a plastic box but not to promote a store? Which btw is all that they're doing. The plastic boxes are just vehicles to distribute the store. So they make their games store exclusive and then make their store hardware exclusive. They're one step more evil than Epic ever could be. You and I know that it wouldn't be a big feat for any of the console companies to port their exclusive games to other platforms, it's not 1990 anymore, we're all using the same frameworks. Making a game exclusive to hardware is not more nonsensical or evil than making it exclusive to a store. The intention behind it is the same.

I know it's evil but I refuse to put it above any of the other shady things in the games industry that gain less news coverage. Epic is not doing anything different or outrageous compared to anyone else. It's a stupid hissy fit that PC gamers are throwing that obfuscates and buries other pressing matters. Everyone wants competition for Steam but as soon as we get it, they freak out.