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The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

Easy Diff posted:

Is now a good time to point out how much actual indie studios fuckibg love publishing to switch because they have a curated collection of games and have lots of products while still keeping the valve open only a little?

i've seen complaining at least from consumers that there's too much trash on Switch eShop so I think no one will ever be satisfied with the amount of valving

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The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

Kerning Chameleon posted:

On the one hand, competition is good because it forces companies to compete and actually improve the quality of their products.

but shouldn't the new competitor also be good themselves, and, say, have have features that Steam doesn't have, that would push Valve to improve in those areas? because the Epic client/store is even more barebones than the Switch/eShop and it's been around for 3 years

# ¿ Dec 10, 2018 00:34

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

They're not even buying permanent exclusives so this is a stupid ploy

Like Borderlands 3 isn't even exclusive for a full year, it's six months, who cares Tim. your gambit is dumb Tim

# ¿ Apr 28, 2019 20:04

The 7th Guest: Dec 17, 2003

Kerning Chameleon posted:

And yet both the publishers and indie game devs seem rather desperate for this to work.

thats because indie devs think their middling 2D pixel platformer will somehow be chosen by Epic for their store when Epic would rather not have any indies at all in their ideal world, so they choose ones that can reach a guaranteed unit sale floor

# ¿ Apr 29, 2019 05:31

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