Nah, I'm just sick of watching interminable videos of people who prefer calling people names to actually getting to their point.
Whatever, guess you got me pegged, you win the Internet, yaaaaay.
>interminable
Do... do you even know what that word means? Even if you don't, do you not know how to scan a video? When people call others shills it's for a reason. You're defending Epic without looking at, acknowledging (especially acknowledging), or even countering any evidence. You're making the issue about
me rather than the evidence. Why? Because you have no point worthy to defend Epic.
Trying to enter a saturated market, much less against a monopoly player, is an expensive hobby.
You can either build a massively better product (you download games, it is not hard, hence why there are a few pretenders and corpses of a several dozen more) or advertise your way in such that people switch (basically what is happening here, or at least is being attempted).
Anyway I am still pretty sure this is a win any way that it goes down, or at least not a loss.
1) If they take out Steam them fantastic or at least indifferent -- one arsehole is no different to another.
2) If they flame out then I do like to watch things burn.
3) If Steam and Epic take out each other then back to no great loss to the world.
So yeah act high and mighty if you want. I am still not seeing why I should harbour a dislike more than I do for any other system that DRM locks me and prevents me from selling/buying games from other people.
Do people usually buy 19 games at once such that a shopping cart is a necessity?
Sorry for the late reply, somehow glanced over it. Maybe because somehow you were able to legally doublepost.
You can either build a massively better product (you download games, it is not hard, hence why there are a few pretenders and corpses of a several dozen more) or advertise your way in such that people switch (basically what is happening here, or at least is being attempted).
Epic has thus far been a massively inferior product. Inferior storefront, inferior customer quality (that I've heard of, and I haven't heard anything new in a year), and inferior checkout. Which brings me to this:
Do people usually buy 19 games at once such that a shopping cart is a necessity?
I don't know about you, buy I prefer on average to, if I can, buy in bulk. I rely on a prepaid debit card, Credit Anxieties and all of that being why. My current one charges $1.50 everytime I make a charge. Y'know how much extra I'd need to charge my card if I wanted to buy all those games one by one like on the Epic Store? $5 for the actual money deposit, and $28.50 in the charges alone. This is the only card that works on some games I play with microtransactions too (which again, better bigger bundles than smaller ones if I can help it cause those $1.50s stack up).
That's $33.50 I'd need on top of the, let's say $30 per game? That's $603.50 instead of the $576.50 I'd be paying, Epic vs Steam.
That's a painful difference in price.
That's using YOUR example, mind you. That also ignores the time it would take to fill out my card info every time per game purchased, vs once on Steam.
This also ignores the lack of a community for guides,
mods (to my knowledge and last I heard Epic don't do mods), sharing content, etc, that Steam has built up. Steam is more than a seller, it's a whole platform. And that's why it's generally well respected. DRM or no.
Mind much of my info comes from a year back, but seeing as GBATemp has never felt it news worthy to announce Epic changing any of their policies like they have on Steam in the past, at least to my memory? I presume it's still much the same.
And considering the scummy move Epic made vs Apple with 198-Fortnite? They could offer every game for free for life and I'd still never touch Epic. I ain't defending steam/valve either. They've done some dumb shit over the years, including censor/ban games while permitting others which get less controversy for example. But they aren't dumb enough to literally bait companies in a public manner so they could sue-and-shame.