Epic buys out Psyonix devs, set to bar game from Steam

[vivster]

OTBWY said:

vivster said:

I never said any of that sort. I am not supporting losing my own progress. I mean I literally said that if that was the case I'd stop playing altogether. Steam is giving me the minimum to be able to play my games. I play Rocket League, not Steam. If Epic can give me the same minimum for me to still play RL, which really isn't much to ask, then I will have no problem switching my account over to the Epic store if I get to keep my progress. I use Steam to play games, not the other way around. Whatever I have against Steam isn't worth dodging RL because RL is the best game ever made. If I didn't play the best game of all times because of issues with a platform holder then I wouldn't play any games at all, which is not gonna work.

But yes, I dislike Valve enough so that I am happy to switch to another platform if it doesn't interfere with my enjoyment of the game, which by my current estimates it won't. You need to realize that there is a difference between accepting something and supporting something. Like you accept Nintendo's awful business practices but not necessarily support it. I accept the evil overlord that is Epic if I get to ditch another evil overlord for it and if it doesn't interfere with my game.

We right now have zero information about how the transition will work. Something like this on this scale has never happened before. I will reserve further comments until I see how good or bad it will be. Until then I can only say that if the transition is done properly I do not think it is a big deal.

You know. So you're okay with the platform it is on if it is a very good game or "best games of all times". I seem to remember a certain game called Shmayonetta 2 that turned out to be one of the best games this gen. Did things change? My issue is that before you were arguing very much so against exclusivity because of one certain company, and now you condone a company that outright buys up exclusives (let alone save them from development hell). Surely you see why this bothers me right? 

RL isn't exclusive to a single platform and it's also a way better game, so i don't get that comparison. As I said, I'm a bit more lenient for different PC platforms because PC itself is not a closed platform and even if you're bound to a certain launcher you still have tons of choice of how you want to play the game. That isn't the case with console exclusives because they completely lock you in, not only on software but hardware as well. A game switching to a different store on PC doesn't automatically make it unplayable for me, like games that become exclusive to consoles.

Console exclusives are just way way worse than PC exclusives because they are just so much more restrictive. And I still don't condone exclusivity of any kind. It's a terrible practice. If RL switches over to Epic and I can take my progress with me literally nothing changes. RL has always been exclusive to a single platform on PC. There is literally nothing changing for me if the transition is done properly. Why would I be against it when nothing is changing for me? Again, I'm not saying I'm thrilled with the change and I'd rather have it if RL is on both platforms, but I will accept the change, firstly because nothing changes and secondly because Steam.

All things compared, making a game that's already on basically all platforms switch to a different launcher is absolutely nothing compared to games that are made exclusive to just a single platform. You must understand the completely different levels of scumbag we're talking about here.