Imagine being such a shit store you lose even when literally giving away games for free
>Hogwarts Legacyunccoded focusmslop
I hate Tim Sweeney for his AIjeet ways, but I do have to wonder how much of it is store quality and how much of it is just Steam sunk cost fallacy because people invested too much in their Steam accounts
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>>729351034How many time are you going to make the same thread instead of having a Christmas dinner with your parents for a change?
Hogwarts Legacy and Jedi Fallen Order kinda feel similar to each other
>>729351318Is a sunk cost fallacy particularly relevant when the items in question are free?No, it's not. You're simply a major league dumbass. Doesn't even know the meanings of words he uses. Good God. how dismal your life must be when you're like this.
>>729351318you are one stupid fucking motherfucker
I like having all my games in one place, and I'm ready to pay for this convenience
>>729351762It's literally 90% off right now.
>>729353697oh so that's why this game is free, all the giveaways are stuff you can get for 5-8 bucks in a sale.
>>729351318Maybe Sweencuck should have solved that problem instead of buying off publishers giving games away for free.
>>729351318Cloud saves are why I exclusively use steam. I hate losing ally data like I did with VTMB TWICE
>>729352176I live in Taiwan. Christmas was yesterday white boy
>>729351034it really is crazy how to this day they refuse to do literally anything to improve the user experiencethey finally caved and added the shopping cart because it was the one thing they were getting clowned on for (and even that took quite a while), but it's still missing so many other basic features like detecting existing game installs (for reference even rockstar's launcher can do this)
>>729351318Even if the stores were functionally identical it would hardly be a fallacy to prefer Steam. All my friends are already on Steam and I have a long built profile on there. I'm always going to prefer the store/platform that I've already been using for so long.
>>729356048It detects my install of sims 4 (I wish it fucking wouldn't cause why would I ever fucking launch it from ebic).
>>729356307>detects game installs that it had nothing to do with in the first place and without even being askedthat's even worse somehow lol
>>729356048The Epic UI is so shit that I end up looking games up on steam to find out what the fuck they actually are. Steam isn't great about using screen space but Epic somehow manages to be even worse.
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>>729354026you have a very low iq. stop interacting with social forums.
>>729356892Damn, I'm saving this one to dunk on losers
>>729351318EGS is a dogshit storefront, and it's really clear Tim doesn't actually care about improving it. He'd rather pay shills to shit this board up hourly with Steam seethe threads and reposts of his tweets instead.
>>729356892holy shit lmao
>>729353348the sunk cost in this case is the library of games on steam, not the free game on the other store. you're retarded
>>729355401Merry Boxing Day
>>729360095You really don't fucking get it. You are ACTUALLY that fucking stupid. and obnoxious. dimwitted. poor. ugly. cowardly. and so on.
>daily threads about 3/10 open world slop movie game for girlsFor what purpose
>>729351034>free house in black neighborhoodvs>cheap house in white neighborhood
>>729360423no u
>>729351318EGS is literally malware, and the host of even more malware (crypto scam games)
>>729360476Perfect anology holy shit
>>729360457it's about the steam vs epic game store rivalry
>>729360095Playing a game through Epic doesn't mean you can't ever play another game through Steam. If Epic was a good platform people would be using both platforms, but instead they'd rather pay $10 for a game somewhere else than get it for free on Epic.
Epic thinks adding text chat is a big deal.
>>729351318good pointI think a lot of people would be more open to buying games on EGS if they didn't already own lots of games on steam
>>729361157a lot of people prefer having their game library easily browsable in one app even if both platforms were just as good thobeit
>>729351034The haters and losers gave this game so, so much free marketing. They had to pretend that it was a good game because a boycott isn't 'virtuous' when nobody wants the thing in the first place.
>>729361375I and millions others already bought it before this recent giving away thing. it's a fun game if you like harry potter
>>729360095you clearly meant the slippery slope fallacy. But anyway. Do you know why that word is that at the end? The fallacy word? It's because they're fallacies. They don't actually apply. They're not true. It's bullshit.God damn have I never seen a person so fucking stupid. They put fallacy right there in the fucking phrase for you and you still can't fucking figure it the fuck out you dumb mother fucker.
>>729361452>you clearly meant the slippery slope fallacy.now you're just trollingit's sunk cost fallacy because the customers could save a few dollars by getting the game free but they feel that devalues the past behavior of buying games on steam. they let their past spending affect their current decision in an irrational way in terms of money which is why it is called a fallacy
>>729361621With logical thinking skills like that, you could work at Epic Games as a marketing consultant.
>>729351318>>729361174No, that's retarded. You can have two programs installed at the same time and use both platforms, there's just no fucking reason to.>but but le free gamesI don't fucking care, I don't like the slop you guys like.
>>729361621>if I break this window, my economic gains will increase.lmao. you don't seriously think that's how it works, do you?
>>729361426>it's a fun gameI don't know how you managed to extract joy from it. I sunk probably 20-30 hours in it and never really had fun the whole time. It should have been an RPG that takes place in hogwarts but instead it's a wannabe soulslike that almost never takes place in hogwarts itself.
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Amazon Luna anyway so you don't have to bother with Epic and you can still get your harry potter game for free.
>>729356892>the fucking game launches through Steam before even the epic store does>epic forces you to watch 30 seconds of corporate mandated ads before letting you launch "your" gameKWABOTM
>>729361868>Don't sell your data to Timmy, sell it to Bezos instead!Retard.
>>729356892>CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK>WHAT THE FUCK IS TAKING SO LONGIt's like I'm watching a webm of myself
>>729362135Yeah, basically, that's what I said. I'll stand by it even if you were attempting to parody me.Bezos>Timmy
>>729356892kektimmy makes it clear he doesn't think gamers deserve any of the nice features of steam or all the nice info steam provides like compatibility with controllers and info about anti cheat and written reviews and etc. etc.
>>729362185That's great, lots of fags have pride
>>729361868Why the fuck would I want to use troona either? If I want free games, I can just pirate them. That's the thing these corpotards don't get. They think PC is console and free stuff is enticing. It's not because there's a million ways to get anything you want for free instead of only a specific game.
>>729362230Well, one reason would be a strong desire for Hogwarts but a strong distaste for Epic. I don't want Hogwarts enough to play it even though I have Amazon Luna, I just thought I'd point it out for those who might want it.Like Steam, Amazon finally convinced me to stick with them by offering enough of a discount + features. Since I enrolled in university, I can get an Amazon Prime student rate which is six months free trial, then only $50 a year after that, and I get a dashpass subscription included along with the delivery and music and games and all the other stuff. It's quite a good deal.
>>729361174That's not it, I've got numerous steam accounts, I've got one epic account that I don't even use. The platform is dogshit. It downloads and installs shit slower than steam. It doesn't have nearly as many features as steam built in, like discussion boards, or gifting, nor a reasonable method to communicate with friends. The free games are a desperate attempt to sucker kids into the platform. If there was a better platform than steam it would beat them out eventually. Epic games services just suck dick and tummy has no plans of improving them.
>>729362225Clearly you do since youre getting this ass blasted over someone using Amazon instead of epic. Take your vaunted pride of bleeps and bloops on a screen with you to your miserable grave
>>729362868>7 word post>assblastedThat was the least amount of effort i've put into any post today
>>729362972because you were assblasted.
>>729363016Sure I was tranny
Both are shit I'll never forget Valve
>>729362972that's the low effort post fallacy. You just proved me right :)
>>729362202 Yep, that’s exactly it. Timmy doesn’t want a storefront, he wants a funnel. No reviews, no forums, no real patch notes, no controller profiles, no proper cloud saves-just a big shiny “BUY” button stapled to a launcher that feels duct-taped together. Steam spoiled us by making features the standard. Epic walked in, dropped a bag of Fortnite bucks, and expected us to clap.
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>>729351034Today I learned that EGS has a bug that stops your monitor from going into standby, and it's been known about for like a decade.
But think about poor starving Developer kun! Valve takes 30%!!!You are a MONSTER if you don't approve them pocketing every single cent from lower cuts on Ebin :DDD game store!What do you mean, you want some benefit in return?
>timmy thought steamies would fold with just a few dollars of giftskwab
>All these retards digging their graves by putting all their eggs in one basket.Gabe is a few years from retirement, have fun once he sells and it goes public.
>>729351034Tim Sweetman is a great man who pour 0.01% of his fortune into appropriating lands from indegenous people, all in the name of ecology.Gabe the Demons is destroying nature right now by buying demonic satanic boats of satan that were only born to destroy the planet.One is a hero. The other is a monster. Never back G*be. And if you do, you are complicit with video game hitler.
>>729363486he will pick a worthy successor like in ready player onehe'll find the steamie with the cutest steam profile who loves video games the most
>>729363486More like>all these retards who pay for games
>>729362417You're still talking like a corpo. Why would I use troona to get the games they choose to give away instead of pirating to get any game I want?
>>729351034I bought it on day one for $90, but I still claimed it on Epic just so Tim has to pay out of his pocket for the next Hogwarts game they make hehe thanks Tim :)
>>729351318Steam is just a console platform for PC players, they're tied into the ecosystem and worship Gabe like a cult. They don't want to leave Steam for anything
>>729351034Yeah atleast steam actually works
>>729363851Holy shit it's a real life actual retard
>>729363851holy based. I should do this too
>>729363969No you shouldn't pay $90 for bad games and then 100% the most boring time wasting content of all time
>>729363763Coherent speech must be very distressing and confusing for you. I can ameliorate this by not speaking to you any further. Not like it does any good anyway. Don't you find it strange that you demand answers so forcefully, yet your strongest desire is to remain steadfast in your viewpoint?No need to answer. It was rhetorical.
Imagine simping for kike corporations.
>>729364016Nice sophisticated redditeur gentleman larp homo
>>729364014I play other game as well, anon. :)
fug the free hogwarts promotion is already overI launched and updated epic game shart for no reason
>>729363872Thats not true, I buy primarily on GoG, if its not avalible there then on Steam. Nobody is giving me any incentive to buy on any other store.
>>729351034Is there any value in this game beyond being a high budget game for Harry Potter fans, or is it actual good game even for people who know nothing about Harry Potter?
>>729364158Lol
>>729364338it would probably be boring for you. the best part of the game is exploring the castle but you would be missing all the referencesget the full cast audiobooks instead and become a potterchad
>>729364338>Is there any value in this gameNo>or is it actual good gameNoThe only reason anyone on /v/ plays it is because of external culture war politics between Rowling and trannies. It's garbage
>>729363129Holy AI
>>729364517It's excellent at being a nostalgia product. 90% of what you can do in the game, and the setpieces, are nostalgia bait. You can find the hidden Alchemy room in Hogwarts, which was supposed to be a class only told to some 5+ years old. You can find a hidden room with ghosts doing a dance for nameday. You can find and fly around the Hogwarts Express station, or fly and find where first years are dropped off the Hogwarts Express station, in little boats.All of it is perfectly measured, almost masterpiece like, to be nostalgia bait. It works. It works to the tune of 40 millions people.It's also a 6/10 Ubisoft open world with subpar gameplay, extremely subpar mechanics, half way decent combat, and as far as an RPG as one can think, given it gives no fuck to personal choice or anything about being a game beside being a frontstore for nostalgia.But it's a great fronstore for nostalgia. Should it have been more? Of course, yes.
>>729364782I did find those things to be cool and I agree there were redeeming elements to the game but the negatives greatly outweighed the positives for me. The gameplay itself, the story, all bad. I remember the voice acting and writing being decent at least but I was a bit distracted by the fact that 1/3 of the characters of this 1800s rural scottish setting were jeets.
>>729356892drm-free: 0.1 of a second
>>729351034>get disco elysium for free>buy it on steam anywayfuck you timmy
>>729353697is this a script you're using for all those info boxes?
>>729355401He cannot fathom the idea of people being in timezones different from his own
>>729364935That's an issue. It does feel like, at time, the game is obsessed by current years politics. Almost eagerly. No, but really eagerly. It has several lesbians explaining how their lesbianismz is "powerful" (I have no other descriptors for that kind of lesbianism), it has a troon on tap. It's kinda stupid. And current years coded.I think that it's powerfully ironic that the video game with a troon added to it just to calm down the troons was powerfully bashed by the troons, which proves you can't really abase yourself in front of troons. They will, as troons will, just shit you on you.Yeah, the leftist politicst in Hogwarts Legacy are absurdly funny. That the troons tried to ban a game that tried so hard to pander them? Absurdly funny. That pandering to troons on twitters didn't even bulge a hiota of the leftists, stull foaming at the mouth at the thought of tearing apart this game? All better.But yeah. Basically in plain language: Hogwarts Legacy is hopelessly woke. It has lesbian, troons, and stuff like that. It's also a bad game. It's also a masterpiece in being a nostalgia product. All of that is true.
>>729366115Picture lost in posting
why don't users of steam want effective competition in the video game distribution market?
>>729366340>Steam60€>Epic60€Wow I benefited so much from competion, whats not to like!
I do use GOG over Steam where I can, because it does not try to force me to update and ruin my savegames and mods by default.Show me at least SOMETHING that EGS does better than Steam. No, the free games won't do shit because I will either already have access to them, or I did not want some pretentious slop-dev to get a purchase from me in the first place.
>>729366707>Steam60 euro>Epic60 euro and a shit launcher that gives your computer aidsFTFY
>>729366957>SOMETHING that EGS does better than SteamIt spies on (You) better
>>729364158vile
>>729366058Argumented steam
>>729369207post yours
>>729363380The way he was trying to fight Steam was completely tone deaf. Steam was built from the ground up to compete against piracy by offering a better service than piracy could.Trying to make a platform that offers no services beyond free games is literally exactly what Steam was built to compete with.
>>729370016steam was build as a drm and you were forced to use it if you purchased HL2, it was pure dogshit for years afterwards and still is to an extent, it is definitely not a better service than piracy
>>729356892Bloody beetchood, delete this right now or I will pray for vishnu to strike down on you motherbitch!!
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>>729371254I'm sorry anon, it's terminal.
>>729356892both are evil.I pirate. Will always pirate.Waiting ten fucking seconds to play a fucking game.Fuck y'all bootlickers
>>729371606>Waiting ten fucking seconds to play a fucking game.You're taking about as long navigating your folders to find your installation thing and clicking it as it takes that dude to boot up Steam (once per restart and that's assuming you don't have boot on startup btw) and then just clicking play btw.But we both know you use launchers anyway.
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>>729366707are you implying there is no effective competition? that's something for regulatory authorities to investigate, but beside the point i was making anyway. the question was: why do you, as a steam customer, dislike the idea of steam having competition?
>>729372250nta but I actively welcome competition, but that doesn't mean I have to just jump ship to said competition. It's up to Epic to provide a competent product that competes, which they have routinely failed to do. I'm not going to download their spyware and adware slop just for some free games that I don't care about or already own.
>>729371697Don't forget they ain't playing anything even semirecent that has denuvo eitherit's 10s to play on steam, 50s to play on epig and 5+ years to pirate
>>729372618you don't need to buy or use competing products to gain benefits from them existing on the marketplace. many steam users seem to wish for epic to fail. that is perplexing to me, and why i inquired about the attitude. is it because of fear of exlusivity, that you'd feel forced to use different store front to access some titles?
>>729356892I bet Epic's solution will be to allow the app to start on reboot.
>>729351318For me it's not that I don't want to use anything but Steam. I have a nice library on GOG and have also bought games on Humble store and even itch. I just hate EGS specifically.
