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Following up on this thing.
I didn't give much of a shit about Epic Games Store before now. Still don't give much of a shit about it now, either, except that what shit I do give is of the negative variety. I wasn't ever planning to use it (and still am not, if Shenmue III is only timed exclusive and not permanent). I didn't know all that much about it. Still don't, really, but I know a little more than I did.
After looking into it more, all I can say is that Epic Game Store seems to be "pro-developer" (mostly in the form of giving them dump trucks full of money mainly just to keep their games off of Steam) and "anti-consumer" because, apparently, the Epic Games Store front end is shit, their privacy/security of user data is apparently shit, and as stated above, they're apparently giving Scrooge McDuck moneybins full of money to developers for, ostensibly, the express purpose of having those developers not put their games on Steam (or anywhere else other than the Epic Games Store).
That's admittedly just from a couple hours of surface-level research on Google, some of which is from randos on Reddit or whatever, but still.
I didn't give much of a shit about Epic Games Store before now. Still don't give much of a shit about it now, either, except that what shit I do give is of the negative variety. I wasn't ever planning to use it (and still am not, if Shenmue III is only timed exclusive and not permanent). I didn't know all that much about it. Still don't, really, but I know a little more than I did.
After looking into it more, all I can say is that Epic Game Store seems to be "pro-developer" (mostly in the form of giving them dump trucks full of money mainly just to keep their games off of Steam) and "anti-consumer" because, apparently, the Epic Games Store front end is shit, their privacy/security of user data is apparently shit, and as stated above, they're apparently giving Scrooge McDuck moneybins full of money to developers for, ostensibly, the express purpose of having those developers not put their games on Steam (or anywhere else other than the Epic Games Store).
That's admittedly just from a couple hours of surface-level research on Google, some of which is from randos on Reddit or whatever, but still.
