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Captain_Yuri said:

I think my next laptop will end up being an AMD CPU one or at least which ever CPU is more power efficient. We have had a few situations where my sisters Alienware with the 5800H and 3070 outlasted my Dell XPS 17 with the 10875H and 2060 MaxQ. It's even more insane when you think about the fact that the Alienware has a 86 Wh battery where as the Dell XPS has a 97 Wh battery.

I probably won't be getting a new laptop until Zen 4 mobile/Lovelace or RDNA 3 as I don't like some of the other meh features that comes with AMD laptops this gen but with things like USB 4 in the future, I think the feature set will be closer between AMD and Intel laptops going forward.

You say that now, but once the time to upgrade comes, things like PCIe 5.0 or the performance in games will probably weight more than battery life, as long as it's not a disaster.

Chazore said:

JEMC said:

^That exclusivity was with the Epic Store, not their own launcher. We'll see if Epic pays them again to bring the games to their store (with or without exclusivity)..

I know, I was just mentioning that RDR2 was exclusive for a bit, but still required R*'s client, and then it came to Steam, but again, still required the R* client. 

It'd be pretty bad for R* if they decide to make a deal with Epic shortly after the trilogy launch, but we'll see what happens.

I wonder if Activision will come back, seeing as how EA came back to Steam and can now siphon from both Origin and Steam for their new BF launch, while CoD only has Battlenet (and the recent Blizz fiascos that drove ppl away).

It's the same situation than the one with Ubisoft: they always force you to use their own client no matter which platform you got the game for. And the reason is simple, it's troyan horse to make users get used to their own stores and lure them to buy from there and not from other places.

For Ubi this seems to be working because they left Steam for the Epic Store and UPlay and haven't come back (yet).