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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I buy all my games on Epic Games Launcher becomes it has less DRM than steam. If you have kids, they can't play 2 completely different games on two different computers.

It's like your kid not being able to play Mario kart on her switch because her brother is playing Halo on Xbox in another room. Steam doesn't support that. Epic games doesn't have a problem with you having 2 different games being played on 2 different computers, so I buy my games there whenever I have the choice because it's the more consumer-friendly platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not to justify it, but you can work around this with offline mode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Family mode too

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

If you have kids, they can't play 2 completely different games on two different computers.

Steam does support that tho. That's what Family Sharing is. And it works really well.

Now, if you wanted to play the same game at the same time, that's on a single Steam account, that you can't do. But I'm pretty sure you can't do that on EGS, either. Not without 2 accounts and 2 copies of the game.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (26 children)

A monopoly is a monopoly. Just because Steam is a good store today doesn’t mean they deserve to hold a monopoly over the pc gaming market. So what happens when Valve has crushed every competitor? Gamers and devs have nowhere to go if Steam turns to shit. Eventually there will be a change of guards at Valve’s C-suite when Gaben retires or is dead. There is a good chance that those new execs will hollow out Steam and extract all the value out of it for their own benefit by screwing over the customers and developers. And they can get away with that if there is no competition. Competition is what keeps Valve in check.

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