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koavf,

Posted a listing of engineering video games.

koavf,

The “killer feature” is that they pay more to the developers, so if you are getting the exact same game on (e.g.) Steam versus Epic Games, then whomever actually made the game gets more money from the Epic sale. Isn’t that a good thing?

(Note that I may be conflating the publisher with the developer, but either way, it’s still the case that less money is taken by intermediaries, which is a good thing.)

koavf,

Quite likely, but until then…

koavf,

Yikes. Good point.

koavf,

Yes, I do, or else I wouldn’t have mentioned it. I’d prefer the publisher gets money over a middleman store. Isn’t that preferable?

koavf,

No, Steam are the monopoly now! The only other option is Good Old Games and for weird indie titles Itch.io.

koavf,

Their service is in no way worse: I buy games, and I get them.

I’m excited about the fact that someone provides an alternative to the monopoly that is Steam.

koavf,

There are tens of thousands of Steam-exclusive games: pcgamingwiki.com/…/List_of_games_exclusive_to_Ste…

What is the alternative to Steam?

koavf,

How about you write what you mean and have quality conversation in the future?

koavf,

It’s all I need: I buy a game, I download and play it. I don’t need anything else.

koavf,

I did.

If you did, then I answered the genuine question you asked.

koavf,

There are almost 40,000 entries, I obviously cannot answer for all of them.

Still waiting for you to answer my question.

koavf,

Having a bunch of features that I don’t want or need is a waste. The Epic Store and Steam both do exactly what I need, so I don’t care about any of whatever the other features are.

koavf,

What is the alternative to Steam?

koavf,

Correct, correct, not correct (but if they don’t sell what I want, then I would buy it elsewhere).

koavf,

Exactly. Not having an alternative marketplace–and no other one exists–is anti-customer and yet, you seem to have no problem with a Steam monopoly. Why?

koavf,

Probably not. Do games on the Epic Store cOSt TwIcE aS MucH? Do you routinely buy goods and services with irrelevant features to your needs?

koavf,

No and it’s not worse service.

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