Was listening to some of the music in their early games like Jazz 1 and Epic Pinball today. I miss OSTs like that.

Hedon would have a word with you
even though it's unfitting at worst

I adore the Ooblets developers for the simple purpose of providing us with all this drama and telling people not to whine about a platform shift and then proceeding to whine about piracy. It's just a delicious amount of being willfully ignorant of an audience.

I also love all the epic fanboys acting as if steam's dominant marketshare is equivalent to a monopoly. And yes, it sucks, but why do people use epic as a posterboy for competition when GOG is vastly better (and actually has a shopping cart).

Because GOG has almost zero chance of actually competing with Steam in the AAA space due to lack of DRM. That's something GOG employees have basically said themselves. Also you can't really compete with Steam on features, because they're so far ahead, have an entrenched user base and can respond quickly to competition in that area.

The only thing that could significantly hurt Steam's market share is exclusives, which is why Epic has gone down that route. Exclusives have always had a big effect in gaming, from console exclusives to Windows to new hardware to whatever else.

I wouldn't mind exclusives if Epic would invest anything in security and making their client any better whatsoever. And didn't it just recently come to light that 30% of cyberpunk pre-orders were on GOG? Doesn't seem very insignificant to me, and overall better features like actual reviews and a shopping cart will allow it to stand the test of time better than epic. People who don't care about DRM will probably just use steam regardless.

Cyberpunk is an obvious outlier, and I was talking about AAA games not usually coming here rather than GOG's actual market share percentage. As for Epic, yes they need to improve their client if they want to actually benefit from these exclusives. I'm surprised they're not doing it faster, seems nonsensical.

Excellent, excellent post.

So Epic will offer "Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden" for free August 15 - August 22. They really must scatter money. I hope this is not bad for the developers of that game (I don't care about the publisher who probably decided to agree to this).

I think the devs got a generous payday for letting epic do that. As for me, I'm still picking up the Deluxe here as soon as it gets a decent sale, so it's a double win for the devs.

Whoa that game? Already being released for free?
I'm surprised.

I hope the more free games are "sold" by Epic, the more they have to pay to the publisher/developer of that game (I assume they have a "pay per item sold" agreement). So I am getting all the free games I can get from them. Haven't played any of them though.

Mutant Year Zero is available free now, and it works directly from the games .exe once you've downloaded it. So download, zip it and store it if you want. Definitely a game worth getting.

Well, here is my take on Epic Games. For years now Steam users had PC exclusives, while us Gog users were happy and felt blessed to see barely few brand new titles to make it on Gog. Whenever one of us asked for DRM-free release for Gog, Steam fanboys would schreech that DRM-free means "piracy". By the way, it is called sharing, not piracy. Piracy is selling goods without copyright authorisation. Also, no DRM ever stopped hackers, unless the games are online only. Now, with the Epic Games around, Steam users got what the taste of their own medicine, Valve got more competition, while Gog gets more and more brand new releases, and doesn't get Epic Games exclusives, which otherwise would had been Steam exclusives. :-)

"Why I turned down exclusivity deal from the Epic Store" (developer of “DARQ”):
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