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I did not realize they were trying to compete in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (44 children)

Epic kinda tried that by giving away tons of free games in the Epic Games Store. It didn't work.

If I want Steam games cheaper, I go buy a Steam key for that game from a separate retailer and activate it on Steam. Save like 50-70% irrespective of Steam sales. It's remarkable that Steam allows us to even do that in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 month ago (31 children)

Epic also generated a lot of bad blood by scooping up Kickstarter projects and ordering the devs to cancel the Steam releases, releases that had already been paid for by backers. A bunch of potential customers refused to buy from Epic on principle after that.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I'm one of them. For all their trash talk about Steam being a monopoly, Epic Games sure pulled some hypocritical, anticompetitive shit in their attempt to replace one monopoly with an objectively worse, consumer-hostile one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Epic Games is creating a monopoly in PC gaming - they keep making bad decisions and leaving Steam as the only good option

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