@Bold Are you forgetting 3DFX with the Glide API ? To this very day there's still exclusive content that exists out there which was built with the Glide API and one would practically need a Glide emulator to run the said content ... 

I wonder if you truly think that placing blind trust in an industry that is very much under consolidation a good idea considering that we're stuck with an x86 duopoly and a single OS vendor so how much more radical do really think having games tied to a single graphics vendor is when it succeeded in the past ? 

It's not negative hype about Tencent, it's that nearly all chinese companies are forged with a political will to build thriving monopolies. At least Google isn't seeking to actively dominate your life unlike Chinese companies such as Tencent does which have their own freaking payment platform! Tencent controls every piece of media in one region so it's only a matter of time before they swipe in for the kill and take down Google to rule ALL mainstream media in the world and what better way is there for them to make more money from gamers than to have them as customers permanently for life by locking down games to their specially designed hardware ? Will you still somehow remain composed if Tencent controlled every relevant gaming media ?

Chinese corporations are not nearly as squeamish as you believe them to be and in fact are far more malignant than western equivalents ... (Google keeps to their own search engines/advertising, Facebook does social networking, Amazon dominates in online retail but there's absolutely nothing in America like Alibaba, Huawei who's trying hard to emulate the old AT&T before breakup or Tencent all of which have a closely knit political relationship with the ruling Chinese party and have far more vertically integrated businesses)

Not entirely true.  These Epic-exclusive games can be purchased and pre-purchased on the humble store.  I'm not saying this will result in lower prices, but it is a "choice" I suppose.

Its very different, one thing i having a studio make a game only for you, other thing is buying a studio that wasn't yours to begin with then having them rip their already released games off from the competitors stores.

Man, I'd love to see MS just buy up studios that release on PS, then take all those games away from PSN, same with eshop and literally everywhere else, then see how far that tune carries on  for. 

I wouldn't need to, because someone else would end up doing that instead  

Did MS also directly pull those studios previously published games off of other storefronts/consoles when they bought them?.

We're in a system that allows these studios to be bought up fair and square, but the idea of simply buying the studio and then taking all their previously pubbed games right off all storefronts soon after, is something that hasn't really been done in such a way before. Don't you remember the time when MS bought timed exclusivity of RotTR?. Sony fans got proper pissed, and rightfully so. Even PC gamers got the same sort of treatment with a later release.

The thing is, you shouldn't be used to it, you should call it out whenever something like the former is done. PC gamers are proper pissed at the fact that Epic has attempted to take a studio and it's popular game, straight off of their competitor's storefront, because they frankly want to gut them, not co-exist with them. 

You make it a valid question with the amount of a fuss you're making about it. Epic removing it from Steam and not supporting any non-EGS version of the game is about the only act that would warrant such a response. Which makes it hilarious that you'd call the question asinine, lol.

Imagine what MS did with Mojang except after awhile they stopped selling Minecraft on other consoles. But as someone who already bought the game on another platform, you still get all of the support and future content. Why be so upset then? And if you're a new player, you just use a different storefront. The console space wasn't a good example because in my scenario you'd have to buy a whole new console to play Minecraft. In the PC space you literally download a new, free launcher, and buy it there. Oh my.

I guess with master race status comes master race privilege.

Actually, no, people were pissed at MS. I remember because Iw as there when the announcement was made, and the people on this site taking shots at MS and SE for making the damn deal in the first place.

I remember people over on Twitter and YT losing it as well and being angry at such a deal, for a franchise that's been multiplat for a while now. 

Just because you're allowed to make a bad deal, doesn't mean you should at every possible turn. Actually using that thing you call a brain and using common sense, would serve you well, to prevent making such a bad decision, that would otherwise net you with hate and lacking success.

Don't need to get used it to at all, because I know I'm not alone in this fight and I'm glad there is backlash, and I'm glad people like me defy you and your illogical bs. 

I won't miss what others provide me with, as well as having a massive backlog and multiple avenues to purchase from. We are living in an age where there are plenty more fish in the sea, and many people out there who are willing to watch others trip up, and then take advantage of those who fumble (like Sony with MS, a prime example).

Get ready for blow-back my dude, and get ready for a spit in the face of defiance, because I'll be there cheering that opposing crowd on. 

And yet it could easily be summed up as "that's just business/capitalism", because we've seen excuses like that thrown out before for years now.

Except MS didn't do what Epic had planned to do, if you'd read up on that, and then read up on the follow up that Basil posted. 

New players on Steam wouldn't be able to purchase the game from the storefront, had it gone the original course of action that Epic had planned. Imagine if MS bought MC and then pulled it from being sold everywhere else within a few months time. Support for existing customers, yeah, that's fine, but new customers that expected it to be sold there, like it had been before, what about them and their choice?. Not such a big deal is it when you're not them, nor care about what they think right?. 

Using the priv status as a comeback isn't really a good one, oh my....

Also, if you want to get sarcy, I wouldn't, because we know where that goes on here. You got sarcy the moment you used the "it's another launcher, it's not a big deal", so let's not act like you weren't acting in that manner when you first jumped in here.