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My biggest issue with Epic is them very clearly doing the classic tactic of selling goods at unsustainably low prices in order to drive out competition before jacking them back up again. Their whole free game shtick can't possibly last forever and they know it.
This and the paid exclusives mean I haven’t, and won’t use EGS out of pure spite.
I've picked up a ton of their free games. I've yet to actually install their client and actually play one
I could always get one of those games off the high seas and pay the same amount. I'm not going to give Epic the engagement numbers to get investors with.
I believe these Indy devs get paid when you boot a game you got for free, so I'm happy to install stuff and boot it once just to support gaming in general
Just install a FOSS alternative to their launcher like Heroic
I believe it used to be illegal to sell things at less than cost because the original monopolists did this too. Why did we make that legal again?
It isn't (at least over here) but the "cost" for a game is really iffy to define because if you want to be pedantic the distribution cost for a digital game are cents and that only if you actually factor in infrastructure costs. So technically they can just price them however they want because technically a single game download has 0 cost.
Technically because we all know that the production costs have to be regained somehow, just that with enough lawyer bs you can ignore that as a product cost on paper (for example if you label the entire production a learning experience or smth)