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It has nothing to do with quality. They pick and choose games that already have a loyal following, so basically hyped games or niche products. And they try to exploit that to build up their user base.
Apparently the point went over your head.
Never used them, got spoiled taking them in like in HW1, so I just destroyed the enemy.
How else were you going to increase your fleet when you hit the unit cap?
I never liked console exclusivity either. That still doesn't make epic good. This practice of buying out developers was never a thing on PC until epic came around. Unless Microsoft actually bought the dev to sell games on MS store exclusively. But we all know how well that turned out for Remedy. And no, I've never purchased anything in the MS store either, or whatever it is trying to rebrand to now. And I certainly not going to buy anything from the Epic game store. Not because I dislike the storefront and it's features, but because...
It Is debatable what will come first: Star Citizen being released or humans achieving faster than light travel. Humans may very well be Star Citizens in reality before they get to be virtually in that game.
So that is your problem? That I added an opinion about something? I hate to break it to you but on a public forum I can interject my opinion wherever and wherever I want as long as it is relevant to the thread. The quoted post is just a starting point that made me write the post. Oh now I'm explaining how a forum works to you. Is this really necessary?
Of course it is intentional, what did you think? That I didn't understand the fact that they were talking about multiplayer modes? If differing opinions offend you I suggest an echo chamber instead of a forum.
I don't even know what is your end goal with this thread of thought apart from the obvious ad hominem attack.
That's your opinion, everyone has one. I don't even deny that these are rants, and they are necessary because there are still people like you who don't seem to care or understand that EGS's exclusivity bs is bad for PC gaming.
Personally I'd prefer the convenience of digital storefronts with digital backup media as an emergency resort in case the storefront goes out of business. At first I was skeptical about steam too. And for years I haven't purchased games on it, but I think now they are too big to fail.
Trinkets, collectibles and printed manuals went out of style regardless of the digital storefronts. For years while I was still buying physical it was worthless, a DVD jewel case, and a slip of paper with an activation code, and a disc, that was it. The lack of physical items made the transition to digital even more appealing.
Yes that is an issue, but so far I haven't seen them taking away owned games, they just disappeared from the store, but they still host them for those who purchased them.
I don't wish for that hassle. I had to travel to the home address of the local distributor just to have my faulty fallout3 disc replaced. And the other common issue I had was with loclaization of physical media games. They were usually badly translated versions that wouldn't even work with official English patches. So most of the time we would get patches months late, or not at all. And god forbid if I wanted to change language back to english.
I think the convenience of the games being available a click away from any location, cloud saves, community forums, and integrated modding, is not nothing. And it is worth more than a printed manual to me. But as I mentioned 99% of games came with nothing in the box from retail anyway in the past 10 years.
Too bad not many games are available to be owned like that. Some games no longer work despite the fact that I have the installers, because of their online drm or shut down servers, so this can't be blamed on digital storefronts entirely.
Did you read the articles? First one was a temp ban, second one was reversed, obviously it was bogus, it would've been a clear cut lawsuit if they didn't back off.
Yes, it wasn't the same, it was much, much worse. The first one was a permanent ban, and the second one is still terrible no matter how temporary. Gradation matters.
You don't own games on physical media either. You never owned any software legally speaking. You only had a license to run the software on one computer. That's regardless of the medium.
That's not quite true. You own your copy and are free to use/sell it however you please on one device at a time, unless special OEM exceptions, SaS and similar.
You own the physical media, but you can't do whatever with it. For example you can't reverse engineer it, or use assets from it.
As per the article, the first ban was PERMANENT and the gamer lost all his games. There may have been other reports that I missed. And even if it was temporary, it doesn't make it any better.
My bad, I only read the first quote in the article I didn't notice it continued bellow the ads.
Still not in the context the original message was about. Which was removing games because of expired licenses, do I have to remind you in every post? Because I'll put it in my signature then that would be easier.
