Kyuu said:
Most complain about 3rd party exclusives, not Fortnite. If Valve as a platform holder can keep their stuff exclusive to their service, why can't other platform holders do the same? It's all platform warring and entitled gamer BS. I don't see Playstation or Nintendo fans (that aren't also PC gamers) demanding other platform holders to port their games to their preferred platforms, or acting all obnoxious about it. I would have loved to have Half Life Alyx on my PSVR2, but I understand why it isn't a thing and respect it. That's not to say PS and Nintendo fanboys are angels. They're insufferable in their own unique ways lol. |
Don't look at me. I prefer GOG because it lets me back up the games so I can keep them even if the service ever goes down, so I'm kind of choosing the service that lets me not be dependent on it. Also, like I said, I have my reservations about Steam, but my tolerance for it is fairly high because it's a quality service that offers more than any consoles do, has free online play, and doesn't require me to purchase a device for hundreds of euros just to be tied to the one service. If Steam ever starts requiring a dedicated device that doesn't allow other services, my tolerance will definitely be hurt severely. Luckily PC is an open platform, and if Steam screws up too badly, a competitor might be able to rise up. That's simply impossible on consoles and a major reason why I've shifted away from consoles as much as reasonably possible.
Anyway, for these reasons and possibly more, I don't think the comparison to consoles is entirely fair. There are definitely ways where it's just as bad as consoles, but there are also aspects that make it easier to excuse it for.
Also, a lot of people are no doubt being hypocritical and/or obnoxious about this. Of course I suspect that's just people being people in general...
