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- Steam, unquestionably, needs a sizeable competitor. With a significant monopoly on the PC games market, such that present rivals like GOG and Humble barely take a dent out of its audience, Valve is able to take an infuriatingly lackadaisical approach to many aspects of Steam. Something to scare them into action would be marvellous. And while not optimistic, I’d hoped that maybe Epic, with their lorries full of money, might be able to try. Except, with yet another exclusivity announcement today regarding Metro: Exodus, they’re going about it entirely the wrong way.
theammostore · 1898 days ago · link ·
What Epic needs to do is to walk back their claims about opt-out reviews, or at least give a disincentive for people to do that. For example, you can opt-out of a review, but you don't get to put trailers out until you open up for them. They also need to work with people to make exclusive deals that aren't shut downs of previous announcements. Like, Exodus was confirmed to go to Steam as well, and then they swooped in and said "nah, it's our now." That's going to just upset previously happy customers. They could be smart about this, but they seem to just go about this in the dumbest way possible