All three of those companies offer far far more services than a table at a flea market. If the flea market was running a credit card processor and concession stands with free drinks, maybe that would be a similar comparison.
Control, nothing else, they want to dictate how you play the game. They can't sell microtransactions if you can just play offline and use mods and cheats to circumvent their predatory monetization.
I swear the only reason they are eager to...
That would be the death of the Xbox, at least as we know it. The whole point of the current model is to make money back via their store, licensing costs and online. If they allow Epic or Steam to sell, either they will undercut Microsoft's prices...
Just a guess, but 3rd party sales being down is probably from spending less money on 3rd party exclusives. It seems epic giving up on this strategy finally? They don't even mention it in the above link.
Since when does Valve remove paid for games from your Steam Library??
They don't even remove de-listed games from it.
Sounds like you might need to nuke your install (making a backup of your common folder first) and reinstall because it sounds...
At this point, they might as well just stop making the Xbox. This sounds incredibly defeatist and pathetic. They've failed so hard for so many years and this is what it's come down to?
Im not sure epic and MS would see eye to eye on the % cut from every sale, unless MS is willing only take like 10% or less otherwise epic probably wouldn't have it.
What numbers? How do you even measure it? You can't release the same game with and without DRM, and comparing different games is meaningless.
Shouldn't it improve sales compared to no DRM anyway? If it doesn't what is even the point?
This is 100% a you problem. Something is obviously broken somewhere. I've never had these issues with Steam.
I do agree competition is a good thing though.
Its one thing to fight off a rinkydink civil suit from Epic based on questionable legal complaints. Its a while other case to fight a well resources DOJ investigation.
The AG's office does not like losing. (It hurts politically) They would not...
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/27500/Quake_Collection_Bundle/
-73% -> $16.41
Both Spoodermen games are 40% off. May hold off on those for a while.
Never in my life will I sign up for another account somewhere to save 19 cents :ROFLMAO:
Thanks for the heads up though, I use GG.deals pretty regularly when my son wants a game.