Honest question: why do people care so much where their games come from? It’s like 30 seconds of work to switch launchers.
On a broad level for the exact same reason I'm not exactly thrilled at how I have a music library split across itunes, amazon and google play.
On a more relevant level, I don't see a company spending market distorting amounts of money to secure exclusivity deals in the short term not planning to hardcore fuck people to get that money back and then some in the longterm.
Musics different; you’re constantly switching between songs. The average song is like 3 minutes. To have to go between different apps that rapidly is annoying.
I probably spend 1-2 hours on a game session. The amount of work to switch to a different window is an annoyance but hardly something to get upset over.
And the EGS is a good thing for the market. More competition is a good thing for everyone but Valve. I don’t see how anyone could argue Epic’s going to fuck everyone over in the long term while also being okay with Steam having no competition. It’s stupid to be fine with one and not the other.
Every account I own is yet another weakness in security, another storefront that will inevitably have all its data breached and put personal information all over the internet, possibly shenanigans with credit use/fraud if I let it remember my card
Every company has different policies and different likelihood of actually preserving my library long-term, as one example I had a bunch of games in my Telltale account and then the company shut down and there is literally no one working there to maintain the website and fix the errors that now prevent everyone from getting access to the games they own
I have like 2 games in some long-forgotten Microsoft account several complete rebrandings ago, one is Age of Empires 3, I have no idea where to go to log into this or what my password is, or if it even still exists somewhere
Ditto for EA, I have some games trapped in their ecosystem, I don't remember what they are and you could say oh out of sight out of mind, except I don't remember all my Steam games either and they're easily look-uppable and accessible everywhere
And also fuck Tencent and whatever small involvement they might have in Epic, I don't trust that shit to stay benign in perpetuity
That's all just based in personal reasoning why multiple storefronts suck, outside of that there's the garbage where devs were all set to launch on Steam and advertising there and basically selling an entire audience there and jumped ship, which is pretty fucked
