Boy, they really are pulling all the stops in trying to make the game shit, aren’t they?
I will wait for sale
I will wait for torrent, if at all
As a bad person, I will warn people about pirating softwares. There are really virus, malwares and many sophisticated malicious codes within those programmes.
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I can promise you that Steam not being on Xbox or Playstation is not Valves fault
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He can put them in the bin for me. Honestly don’t see the appeal.
He’s the dumbest CEO you’ve ever heard.
I long for the era when fans who were asked if they would swallow future exclusivity deals would stare blankly and say, Wat?
While deals weren’t really a part of it, exclusivity has been a feature of console gaming from the very beginning.
So has fire insurance on game company office buildings, but fans never cared about it or boycotted games over it, etc.
You went from apple and oranges to apples and bolt carrier groups.
Ok let me Sheldon it for you: Yes, deals existed “back in the day” as the saying goes, but fans were not aware of (or reactive to) the business aspects of gaming enough for the deals to be the subject of headlines or controversy.
I wasn’t disagreeing with you, just pointing out your example was a bit wild. I fully agree with your other point. Although I would also point out that the early exclusives were that simply because it just didn’t occur to devs to release a game on more than one console.
I didn’t even touch this game when they were giving it away for free because of the privacy issues
I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!
If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.
And that website is a fucking eyesore.
Better if they don’t, as they don’t deserve people’s money.
How does that guy still have a job?
Why are people taking this even remotely seriously? This is Pitchford doing marketing for BL4. BL3 already showed people don’t want Epic exclusivity and there’s no such thing as Steam exclusivity. They can choose to release exclusively on Steam but that’s just artificial exclusivity because nothing about Steam prevents them from releasing on Epic or GOG.
It’s a pointless poll made by Pitchford either to keep BL4 in the media cycle or to just shit stir, possibly both.
Any chance he’s putting the question on social media to convince other stakeholders above him?
It’s possible he was in a board meeting when some novice shareholder suggested “What if you take an exclusivity deal”? And he just didn’t have clear evidence on hand of that being vastly unpopular. Obviously that could be me being overgenerous to him.
There is a chance but what is he convincing them of? That they should take a non-existent exclusivity deal with Steam? They already have the data that exclusivity with Epic does not work and Steam doesn’t do exclusivity deals.
Pitchford is a cunt when he wakes up, and when he goes to bed he reviews a checklist to make sure he still retains the appropriate level of cunt in his daily routine.
He’s not doing anything unless it makes Randy Pitchford more rich, or alternatively, makes sure he’s still a cunting waste of life.
BL3 is the existing evidence
There are Steam exclusives, but it’s because the publisher chose it to be that way, not because of any incentive by Valve.
That’s what I mean by artificial exclusivity. There are games where the developer or publisher decided it’s the only platform they will release on but that kind of “exclusivity” is not at all the same as Epic paying developers or publishers to not release on Steam. Valve/Steam doesn’t prevent those games being released elsewhere, the developers/publishers themselves don’t want to.
I could understand smaller (I’m talking literal solo devs or studios with less than 10 people) choosing to be exclusively on Steam. Supporting other platforms can have huge overhead costs for them. But for a studio the size of Gearbox there’s no benefit to being exclusively on Steam. They have enough support staff to manage multiple stores. There maybe be suits wondering if it’s worth being exclusively on Epic but there are no suits sitting around wondering whether to be exclusively on Steam or not, the answer is obviously not.
Customers already told them this by not buying on Epic and waiting 6 months to a year to buy on Steam.
Randy can swallow my dick.
Fucking don’t. Put them on GoG.
Other than GOTY edition of the first game, this entire series has LAN (so far), which is commendable and stupidly rare! I hope the GOTY edition doesn’t show that they’re nixing this for BL4 as well.
Just don’t make exclusives. Steam, GoG, Epic, whatever.
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