Are you referring to Saints Row? Isn't it actually anti-competitive for it to be a timed exclusive?
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Jiehfeng
Veho
I don't see how the two statements are mutually exclusive. Competition in general is good for the consumer, but that doesn't mean one of the competing products/services can't be a steaming turd.
Jacklack3
@Jiehfeng i'm kind of just referring to the discussion between the two platforms in general. but it is competitive to be a time exclusive, because it's pushing people who want to play the game without waiting to buy from epic games, and not steam. anyone who makes PC games just thinks of steam as the place to distribute games.
Jacklack3
itch doesn't really try to be competitive, and usually projects that also wanna make money are on steam, with itch as more of a drm-free alternative. epic games is the first launcher to try to compete with steam, and to try to fight that monopoly steam kind of has, they'll try to get as much exclusives as they can.
Jacklack3
of course, companies don't want to put their games on your platform when they could be missing sale from steam, so epic compromises to just doing them timed.
Jacklack3
@Veho yeah I agree, but from what i can tell, some people don't see the reason epic has to do these things. epic can def make some improvements to their launcher, but it's hard to do the nice social features steam has if you could just use steam. i think right now, epic is just trying to compete in the game market aspect, not just launcher.
Jiehfeng
I see what you mean but what you said originally was people saying the competition helps the consumer, in that regard it doesn't help the consumer when there's timed exclusives and less choice to choose which platform.