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Captain_Yuri said:

As a consumer, I'd rather have steam take 30% and continue to have a store that actually functions instead of the half arse attempt that Epic and Microsoft has made on their stores. There's a large and ever growing list that shows the difference in features that steam has. Not to mention, we have seen developers not give any discounts when the store front takes less of a cut. So as a consumer, I couldn't care less.

Now if Microsoft or Epic or anyone else has a store that isn't terrible that has competitive features as steam does while only taking 12%, then I'd be more considerate.

I just saw this just today, and my heart sank a lil.

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/artstation-is-now-part-of-epic-games

I've always loved using Art station for years, especially when it came to looking and studying from artists I admire. Seeing Epic just buying up shit left and right like this just makes me wonder who's the one forming the monopoly here.

Valve bought out Santo, Epic bought out Fall guys and RL dev studios, multiple render tech firms and now Artstation, an entire site dedicated to detailed and high class art. Artstation is big in the art world, it's one of the few sites that artists link for their general portfolios to companies and customers alike. This is a big get for them.

Seriously, who's the one trying to build an encompassing empire?.

Yea Epic Games is basically trying their hardest to get a foothold in the PC market but it's pretty clear that so far, outside of Fortnite, it's been largely failing. (Thank You Apple for showing their financials)

The reason why I like Steam is because they have consistently proven themselves to be one of the better companies for PC gaming. They added things like family sharing, like cloud saves, like native controller support with a wide variety of controllers, like mod support and the list goes on.

Once up on a time, PC gaming looked pretty grim. A large number of companies were singing the PC gaming is doomed song and Epic was part of that club. But thanks to Valve and a few other companies/influencers, PC gaming is now one of the best places to play games. And now, you see Epic doing a 180 and trying to look like they are the good guys when in reality, they would abandon PC gaming in a heartbeat if they had a choice. Ironically, MS did the same a long time ago.

It's why I haven't bought a single game on EGS and I only use Windows Store for Gamepass. People forget that it was Valve that did the grunt work that made them the success they are today while bringing back PC gaming from a bad era and now they are reaping the rewards. Meanwhile you have companies like Epic Games trying to skip the grunt work and baiting people into thinking they are the better company. For me though who has seen all the nonsense that PC gaming had to go through from these companies that couldn't care less, it's a solid no thanks. In the end, we all know what happens when publishers try their own thing on PC...