It was a PS4 exclusive too but now you can play on PC. Once the sales droop it’ll be cross-platformed.

The several Acts was a nice touch

They don’t lock out third party apps and slow down reverse engineering by giving their code away.

I use plane for my personal project ticketing and git is built into all my IDE. Why make it harder because of a random Foss project with opinions.

Basically watch games being promoted on steam pre-release and when games get popular, reach out to them and offer them money to be exclusive on EGS for a period of time despite all the publicity the game got being on Steam.

Are you sure you’re not getting butt hurt by valid critiques?

I’ll still skip games with multiplayer for obvious reasons but this is great.

Say that to WeChat.

Mate, if you are dim enough to think an update can’t contain malicious code I have a heap of bridges to sell you.

Given you probably don’t understand software security but it’s fairly common attack vector.

https://www.hackerone.com/knowledge-center/supply-chain-attacks-impact-examples-and-6-preventive-measures

And mods, friends, groups, community groups, server management and link to external games…

Steam offers more than just DRM…

I posted a link in my original comment about using WeChat to spy…

Tencent owns 40% of Epic. That is very likely a controlling share which means being able to decide who is on the board and influence their decision making.

https://www.thestockdork.com/who-owns-epic-games/

I’m OK if you own the game you are making exclusive to your platform. Bribing devs is shitty practice. They also sit and wait for a game’s early access to gain momentum on Steam first before offering them money to leave.

NOW this is interesting. Still won’t give Epic my money but I get plenty of games from Twitch for EGS.

The one upside is if the game flops it gives lots of users a chance to not buy it. But any game with multiplayer it effectively kills the MP mode.

MW5 and Satisfactory amongst others were limited to Epic for years.

We waited years for MW5 to come off Epic and finally got it. Same with Satisfactory.

That’s literally the point of their Launcher… DRM.

I’m sorry but Epic is owned by Tencent. This means at any point in time, China’s Government can enforce trojans to be installed into your PC. Maybe not as relevant for you if you are not in a position of interest.

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/29/751116338/china-intercepts-wechat-texts-from-u-s-and-abroad-researcher-says

It is known PC Launcher exclusives actually hurts the company and the game’s popularity.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-store-exclusives-apple-lawsuit/

While Steam is certainly not the good guy, they are not owned by a known Government organisation.

100% the explosion of custom maps from WC3 set the stage for the next generation of RTS.

HoN, HOTS, DOTA, League, etc relied upon these foundations.