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- Jul 18, 2017
Borderlands 3 is going to be an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. Outer Worlds too. Remember Origin Access for EA Games? Activision would like to have a word! (Please sign up, we are lonely).
Its time to talk about PC Gaming. The often forgotten "console" in the gaming industry. And the horrendous mistakes AAA game publishers are making in their approach to the "console".
Mistake 1. PC Gamers are willing to accept multiple accounts for their games.
No. No. No. Fucking no. Even STEAM was a hard sell back in the early 2000's when Sega practically forced it on us in order to play the new total war strategy games, and to get access to Half Life 2 and the Orange Box. Before Steam and the Orange Box, PC Gamers expected to have a hard copy of their game in CD form they could hold for all time. Steam managed to wean us off that through shear convenience and cross generation control. We could get a new computer and still have access to the same games we bought on Steam. So Steam was grudgingly accepted.
Enter EA Origin. EA did not want to play nice with others. So we had to to sign up with a seperate "Steam alternative to play EA games. Activision and Ubisoft followed suit with their own shit. I think my computer still has both programs installed on it? I guess? I only got origin to play dragon age and whatever the fuck Activision calls their shit to play Destiny. The password gatekeeping is annoying though so I have not logged into either in YEARS. I got what I wanted out of both and have no need to log into them ontop of everything else every fucking time I turn my fucking computer on.
Enter the Epic Store. I have never played fortnite. Ever. I don't have the Epic launcher. When total war forced me to install Steam I got pissed and tried to find a way to avoid it, and i destroyed EA origin with my Anti Virus software after I was done with Dragon Age Inquisition. Simply deleting it was too much of an honor, and since Symantec viewed Origin as a virus, I was happy to allow it to destroy the program with extreme prejudice and send the combat report to both EA and Symantec.
The long story short? PC Games are console neutral. Efforts to force exclusivity in the PC market are doomed to failure and the only reason Steam dominates is becuase it got their first and isn't doing shit at this point. More importantly though its annoying as fuck to have to set up separate accounts to play separate games. So go ahead and sell your stupid game for money to an audience of people who are playing fortnite, a FREE TO PLAY GAME!. I sure hope those people playing for free want to spend money on the exclusive pay to play game offered on their launcher. They won't btw. If your game is exclusive to a specific launcher on PC, just don't release it on PC at all. Save yourself the aggravation. Nobody is going to buy it. You would be better off trying to get Sony shekels for an exclusive PlayStation Launch. Having to log into Steam every day is aggravating enough. I am not adding another launcher on top of it. Especially after I went to the trouble to making sure my Anti-virus registered the Origin launcher as malware.
Its time to talk about PC Gaming. The often forgotten "console" in the gaming industry. And the horrendous mistakes AAA game publishers are making in their approach to the "console".
Mistake 1. PC Gamers are willing to accept multiple accounts for their games.
No. No. No. Fucking no. Even STEAM was a hard sell back in the early 2000's when Sega practically forced it on us in order to play the new total war strategy games, and to get access to Half Life 2 and the Orange Box. Before Steam and the Orange Box, PC Gamers expected to have a hard copy of their game in CD form they could hold for all time. Steam managed to wean us off that through shear convenience and cross generation control. We could get a new computer and still have access to the same games we bought on Steam. So Steam was grudgingly accepted.
Enter EA Origin. EA did not want to play nice with others. So we had to to sign up with a seperate "Steam alternative to play EA games. Activision and Ubisoft followed suit with their own shit. I think my computer still has both programs installed on it? I guess? I only got origin to play dragon age and whatever the fuck Activision calls their shit to play Destiny. The password gatekeeping is annoying though so I have not logged into either in YEARS. I got what I wanted out of both and have no need to log into them ontop of everything else every fucking time I turn my fucking computer on.
Enter the Epic Store. I have never played fortnite. Ever. I don't have the Epic launcher. When total war forced me to install Steam I got pissed and tried to find a way to avoid it, and i destroyed EA origin with my Anti Virus software after I was done with Dragon Age Inquisition. Simply deleting it was too much of an honor, and since Symantec viewed Origin as a virus, I was happy to allow it to destroy the program with extreme prejudice and send the combat report to both EA and Symantec.
The long story short? PC Games are console neutral. Efforts to force exclusivity in the PC market are doomed to failure and the only reason Steam dominates is becuase it got their first and isn't doing shit at this point. More importantly though its annoying as fuck to have to set up separate accounts to play separate games. So go ahead and sell your stupid game for money to an audience of people who are playing fortnite, a FREE TO PLAY GAME!. I sure hope those people playing for free want to spend money on the exclusive pay to play game offered on their launcher. They won't btw. If your game is exclusive to a specific launcher on PC, just don't release it on PC at all. Save yourself the aggravation. Nobody is going to buy it. You would be better off trying to get Sony shekels for an exclusive PlayStation Launch. Having to log into Steam every day is aggravating enough. I am not adding another launcher on top of it. Especially after I went to the trouble to making sure my Anti-virus registered the Origin launcher as malware.
