Cerebralbore101 said:
CladInShadows said:
If you played Subnautica around the time it was given to us, then offline mode wasn't available then. Not until February. If it was recently, then you'd have to ask their developer why they made it always online for Epic. But the fact remains that EGS has an offline mode. I'm not making it up.
Borderlands 3 uses Denuvo DRM. Nothing to do with Epic. Again, ask the developer/publisher why they made that decision. Though apparently people have been finding ways around the always online. And this is also not a fair comparison since you're comparing PC and console.
Anyways, we're not going to agree on the multiple launchers bit. Only that hardly any of the other launchers have been "optional". Steam has exclusives. GOG has exclusives. Origin has exclusives. And I'll be buying games where I can get the best deal. If I have to click 30 pixels to the left in order to open a different launcher, then I'll do it, no matter how harrowing and stressful the experience is.
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Eh, I guess I'll give EGS another try. Maybe RNGesus hates me, and I happened to pick the only two games on EGS that have always online DRM?
It's not simply a matter of clicking 30 pixels to the left. It's convoluted and unnecessary to need to have 5-7 launchers, and 5-7 passwords just to keep track of all your PC games. Can you imagine there being five different eShops on Switch? One for each major publisher? Now imagine there being a crapshoot of wildly varying DRM and EULA policies per store.
If any other platform had the ridiculousness of storefronts that PC has, it would get laughed out of the park. But because it's PC we are all going to give it a pass?
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We don't question RNGesus. We just try to move forward.
I understand. That's the price of an open platform, my friend! I just don't personally see the big deal. I don't really consider it a true exclusive if all I need to do to gain access is to install a new launcher. It's not like I have a Playstation and a game I really want to play is only on XBOX. It's not enough of a hurdle that I'd refuse to play a game because it was on a different launcher.
Seriously though....GOG Galaxy 2.0 is already making this mostly a non-issue. I can only imagine how things will be as they continue to add more features.
