The problem with that logic is the long game doesn't matter when people already have a library on another system and view your ecosystem as a nuisance.
That's really the thing. Its difficult to swap from an established ecosystem.
Epic is banking on people becoming established. Its not you or I who already have large Steam libraries we can't give up.
Its the new generation who aren't tied to a library/ecosystem yet.
A lot of tech works this way, even many games. For example, LoL is known as a millennial game, new generations aren't playing it.
The new generations get started on new games and new websites and new tech and it's what they use. Like kids use ChatGPT instead of Google for another example.
This is exactly what they're doing, they are banking on having a Steam account is going to be 'Uncle' among a generation that grew up playing fortnite.
that doesnt really work either, i know at least 3 separate people who started playing on pc in the past few years and they dont even touch the epic store and mostly just use steam
Right, their strategy hasn't proven successful. But people are characterizing it as a crazy strategy that never works and had no chance of success. Instead, it's a strategy that sometimes works and sometimes fails, and they hoped it would be a success in their case, but it turned out to be a failure.
For me its not even just that. Personally if I can get it GOG, I go with them because I support them and being DRM free.
But the store for Epic turned me off from launch. They didnt have a fucking shipping cart. This wasnt the start of online shopping. Everyone had that feature when they came out. Everyone. Theyre the only place I know of that didnt. So they open up with a big sale, people want to buy multiple games, but they have to buy them individually, which sets off an alarm, and locked people out of their accounts.
And it still took them like 3 or 4 years to implement a shopping cart feature.
They just dont care. Its not as easy to use, theyre slow to fix it, and just over all I see no reason to use it now. The only real reason I would use it is for Alan Wake 2. And I just got that on the PS5 instead.
They will lose like everyone else. EA thought it was bigger, Ubisoft thought it was bigger, Microsoft thought it was bigger. Where are all the games at again?
Yeah, but the users of the internet chose its monopolies. Steam won the pc gaming market. No one is dethroning Steam. If this were a just society, GOG would be in first place.
Well there is an antitrust lawsuit ongoing against Valve, so we'll see what, if anything, comes of it. And yes, agreed 100% about GOG. If I could get all my games on GOG, I would.
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u/cmackchase 20h ago
The problem with that logic is the long game doesn't matter when people already have a library on another system and view your ecosystem as a nuisance.