lyndonguitar
I play games
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System Name | X6 | Lyndon-ROG |
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Processor | Intel Core i7-8700k | Intel Core i7 6700HQ |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5 | Asus ROG-GL552VX |
Cooling | Deepcool Captain 240EX |
Memory | 16GB Corsair Vengeance LED | 8 GB |
Video Card(s) | NVIDIA GTX 1080 8 GB GDDR5X | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M 4GB |
Storage | SSDs: 500GB, HDDs: 2TB, 2TB, 3TB | SSD: 250GB, HDD: 1TB |
Display(s) | Samsung 49" CHG90 3840x1080@144Hz, Panasonic 32" HDTV, | 15.6"1080p |
Case | Cougar Panzer Max |
Audio Device(s) | HyperX Cloud II | Corsair Gaming H1500 7.1 | ROCCAT Kave 5.1 | Edifier M3200 |
Power Supply | EVGA 750GQ |
Mouse | Logitech G403 | Razer Deathadder Chroma | Logitech G302 | Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. 5 |
Keyboard | Corsair Vengeance K70 Cherry MX Red |
Software | Windows 10 |
Steam has been my go to place for years. Almost every game is there, my entire library that i am proud of is listed there. Plus its got all great features like in-home streaming with phones, TVs, other PCs; forums for all games, family sharing, refunds, steam curators(which i am a reviewer of one with 100k+ follower) steam market where i got loads of free games through trading and selling stuff, controller support, etc. and almost everyone has a Steam account now.
Steam basically rejuvenated PC gaming and PC games distribution as it is. It made life easier for PC gamers. No more cdkeys, putting disc in trays, countless clients, manual patches, backups, etc) Few years ago you just ran steam and all your games get auto patched. Now if you want games patched up you have to run battlenet, origin, epic, etc at the background. Its getting worse. Now we have to have a new program that can consolidate all these clients into one application.
If I had the choice where would my games end up, I would always choose Steam, with such an investment its really hard to migrate/use a different game client now. Imagine putting all hundreds of your games collection in one room and they realizing you are now unable to put certain games in it, that they must be in another room. Sadly you can never have all the games on Steam. there are really great games that are in other clients, I'm okay with that though.
Epic comes in with their own game client, buying out devs to release games exclusive to their store. Normally this would be fine, as what we have learned to accept with Origin, Battlenet, etc. (Playing Apex Legends now, as well as Diablo 3/Overwatch on Battle.net, Also used to play BF3, BF4) and countless other games with their own clients. Hell, even Epic Store was fine with Fortnite!
So why did people hate Epic suddenly, what went wrong??
Steam basically rejuvenated PC gaming and PC games distribution as it is. It made life easier for PC gamers. No more cdkeys, putting disc in trays, countless clients, manual patches, backups, etc) Few years ago you just ran steam and all your games get auto patched. Now if you want games patched up you have to run battlenet, origin, epic, etc at the background. Its getting worse. Now we have to have a new program that can consolidate all these clients into one application.
If I had the choice where would my games end up, I would always choose Steam, with such an investment its really hard to migrate/use a different game client now. Imagine putting all hundreds of your games collection in one room and they realizing you are now unable to put certain games in it, that they must be in another room. Sadly you can never have all the games on Steam. there are really great games that are in other clients, I'm okay with that though.
Epic comes in with their own game client, buying out devs to release games exclusive to their store. Normally this would be fine, as what we have learned to accept with Origin, Battlenet, etc. (Playing Apex Legends now, as well as Diablo 3/Overwatch on Battle.net, Also used to play BF3, BF4) and countless other games with their own clients. Hell, even Epic Store was fine with Fortnite!
So why did people hate Epic suddenly, what went wrong??
- The main issue that started it all is the Metro Exodus fiasco, it was using Steam as an advertising platform for over a year, under the premise that the game would be released there, then 2 weeks before release it suddenly changed stores. Even physical disc keys were switched from Steam to Epics. Only preorders were honored but that was not enough. Left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
- There is a glaring difference between Origin/Battlenet and Epic Store: Epic sells exclusive games that they don't publish/develop, they just pay them to get exclusivity (This is unheard of in the PC industry, only seen in console industry, and people hated this).
- Epic would be more comparable to GOG or Discord Store, or even a website like Greenmangaming. But those stores have no exclusivity to them.
- Did Epic announce metro exodus exclusivity beforehand? No. in fact they stole one from steam under their noses.
- Do they publish their own games like Blizzard and EA? No, they pay off devs.
- Are games available elsewhere like in other storefronts like GOG, Discord, Uplay, Rockstar Games, Greenmangaming, etc? No
- Announce games beforehand(they seem to be doing this mostly so we're good on that)
- Publish/Develop their own games or at least let them come from their own choice. or just keep paying them until people get used to it.
- Make the games available for other stores, let the people choose. Bring them in with features, not with exclusivity. Again if people are choosing to pirate a game instead of buying it on another client, that's saying something about Steam. This is not worship or fanboyism, this is just Steam being the better choice right now.
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