29th October 2019, 12:59 PM
I dislike Epic Games Store not for any reasons specific to it, but rather because it is run the same as other alternatives like Origin, and they basically bought their way into it and forced themselves to be relevant without actual merit. They also lack a number of features, indicative of the "bum rush" nature of Epic Megagame's business model as of late.
That said, I did buy Outer Worlds, so there's that. I want real competition, and for the most part I've been willing to wait out exclusives until they end up on the GOG store, which is by and large my favorite platform for this.
I don't know what a solution would look like short of a FTC mandated singular repository of digital sales which stores all have to sync to, but that runs into it's own issues that I personally am not prepared for. However, it can certainly be better, a lot better, and there's got to be SOME outside pressure, some shifting of the systems these companies operate under before they'll be compelled to change anything. They certainly won't be doing it for us.
That said, I did buy Outer Worlds, so there's that. I want real competition, and for the most part I've been willing to wait out exclusives until they end up on the GOG store, which is by and large my favorite platform for this.
I don't know what a solution would look like short of a FTC mandated singular repository of digital sales which stores all have to sync to, but that runs into it's own issues that I personally am not prepared for. However, it can certainly be better, a lot better, and there's got to be SOME outside pressure, some shifting of the systems these companies operate under before they'll be compelled to change anything. They certainly won't be doing it for us.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)