It seems big game companies are starting to leave Steam.(Activation, Bethesda, Epic Games) Thoughts?

Epic Games was already exclusive...?

Having everything on Steam is easier for the user but is perfectly understandable why devs are doing this, but this is only an option for the biggest publishers.

Epic Store having exclusive games? like, are they having arrangements with developers to sell their games only through their store? hell no!. Same thing goes for other exclusive games that are not released through other channels. Show me some consumer-firendly approach (before I die) and I will consider

I doubt Epic can do it. Twitch as a much larger user base (larger than Steam, actually), it is backed by one of the biggest companies on the planet, and people still often forget that it has had its own PC gaming store and client for many months now. Epic, on the other hand, has the Fortnite demographic, who have just enough pocket money for the Fortnite microtransactions and that is it.

In general though, it has been high time for years for Steam and Valve to end up on the garbage pile of history where they belong. All the things we give shit for other companies originate from them. The client is broken mess held together by prayer and duck tape. The only reason it is still there is because it is too old and too big to just disappear.

On the other hand, having a zillion separate clients is a tad tiresome. If they somehow turn the entire thing into an in-browser app, then it becomes zero hassle, but then again, I still prefer classic installers and no DRM. However, it seems to be that I am starting to be part of a minority who can still navigate a Windows folder structure and manages to find a game's EXE without a fancy client.

As much as I prefer all my games to mostly be in one place for conveniences sake (and Steam has been a good home for them given the consistently good sales), I think competition is a great thing. Any one company that are allowed to sit at the top unchallenged will grow complacent, and by having to consciously excel to stay ahead of the game, customers are provided a better service. Given how much of a head start Valve has in terms of the sheer volume of games owned on their platform (and as a side-effect, number of friends/contacts people have for idle chat purposes in the overlay), so it's unlikely Steam will be 'dethroned' by any means, but I think it will be a good thing in the end.

Besides, with the amount of time and money invested in creating high-end games, it's only natural that the invested parties don't want to pay some other company a sizeable chunk just to have their game listed. We'll likely find that only specific AAA titles will be unique to each launcher, and indie or intermediate titles would still remain widespread and available in numerous forms.

I would consider, if the games were actually good. Pretty much every EA game doesn't interest me, same with Activision/ Blizzard as I don't care much about multi-player games...but all depends on the games.

Not sure if this is the right thread to post this but it's been an interesting read and I don't want to open another thread on this subject.
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Interesting seeing this thread after all the recent things that happened. lol. Since Ubisoft jumped onto Epic Games store.

Price is my biggest concern followed by refund policy. As long as those two are met then I would rather purchase from GOG. Unfortunately, most of the big games seem to be avoiding GOG so I'll probably just not buy at all. It's not like I have a shortage of games to play anyway.

as long as I can buy it on GOG i don't mind if it is not on steam

With Ubisoft gone Valve lost one of the biggest money makers of 2018.

I guess unless Valve start to bribe developers, I mean become competitive and gets its own exclusives we'll soon see if the "yes, you will have access to your games after Valve bankrupts" will hold true :)

Competition can only benefit a free market. Both short and long term. No matter the size of my Steam collection, I shall seek new platforms as viable alternatives to it. As long as you're getting the best offer for the product in question, why worry over a brand or another?

I pretty much go where bundles take me. Steam store purchases are like 1 a year (at under an euro).
If only Humble didn't offer crap MP games I had zero interest in. Then again EA and kind focus 100% on that now making their stores even less interesting to me.

unfortunately, I don't care that much.. growing up, I keep on looking for indie games or anyways whatever else I can find, I know that on Steam there are hundreds of RPGs and awesome games I have yet to play so, no problems as long as I get something new from time to time..
my last console has been the SNES, I got a PS1 from a friend but I rarely used it, most of my time spent on the PS1 was with him (we spent some years, we lived like next door literally so it was easy to see each other every hour of the day).. then, after Ultima Online, I tried a bit of World of Warcraft and kept on playing old games, GB and SNES mainly but also GBA and NES..
so I don't even know what AAA means, if I find a nice game I'm happy to play it and I don't even know apart from Squaresoft of course the game companies that make them.. I just enjoy what I find and I think I've got tons of games still to play that came out 5, 10, 15 years ago.. so that doesn't bother me at all, I can't play on console due to my chronic illnesses and I can get through a combination of joypads and such on a PC, so I'll never buy a new console (new to me means published after the PS2, I've never even seen a PS4 or some xbox or nintendo wii xD), I'm perfectly fine..I think I'll never have another client apart from Steam on my pcs

Quite honestly, if it goes the way of every company having their own client with their own exclusives I fully expect piracy to skyrocket. I can't think of anyone who would WANT to have to install a half dozen or more different clients and launchers to be able to buy and play the games they want, so many will probably stick with their preferred platform and torrent what they can't get from it.

i'd prefer torrent-edition than anything non-steam or gog at least
other platforms exclusive-based, doing nothing good for users, only for themselves

let's make a store for every Korean with launcher on the market, yay!

off topic question about epic games.
does epic game's censor you when you type on forums and whatnot. if i say fuck will it say ****. im really getting sick of being censored on forums for adult games. if im on a forum for a game full of brutality rape and baby sacrifice i should be able to say fuck. if a game is full of tits i should be able to say tits. makes sense, right?

They made a few crap games and didn't want bad reviews.
Steam has a review section for every game.
Don't sell on Steam, a lot of people don't know how bad a game is because of no review.
They do however get to read a lot of paid reviews on other sites.

I personally don't care since i don't play many AAA games anyway, mostly because most games i get from giveaways are indie, besides this could be excellent time for indies to explode on steam!
although i will play the free games epic offers but thats it

Couldn't care less about all the clients that give us "rental" versions of games.
I just wished GOG would grow to be as big as Steam is, and most developers follow suit.
Nothing beats having the games you pay for DRM free.

You forgot the Blizzard store.
Blizzard was one of the first companies that refused to sell anything on Steam.