So where do you think will most people download their games in the future let’s say in 10-20 years.....epic or steam?Do you think valve will do something about the selling cut or not?Lg

We'll use GameFlurble. You don't know it yet but it's going to be huge.

I doubt any of them will still exist in 20 years.
At last not in the current form.

You just jack in and click on that big pulsating button in the app to get a jolt of pleasure sent to your brain. First click is free, second costs just a little and then the price increases up to astronimical sums. What the company or the app will be called? No clue.

10 years: TPB.
20 years: p2p mesh networks, after the internet collapses.

Sounds too good to be true. I don't see any signs to suggest we aren't heading (further) towards corporate dystopia in the near future.

Nah, that jolt of pleasure costs. A better idea is the first is free, thereafter you buy loot boxes which may, or may not contain the jolt. All the while full retina burn of advertising, whilst your dna setup is extracted for the database.

Valve already changed the way their cut works after Epic was introduced, for games with larger sales.

Revenue
Under $10 million = 30% cut
Between 10 and 50 million = 25% cut
Over 50 million = 20% cut

Personally I think we're yet to see if Epic's venture is even going to be successful. So far it's just at the point where people would use it to play the games exclusive to it and probably not use it beyond that, same as Uplay or Origin etc.

It also remains to be seen if Epic's cut is going to remain the same if they ever reach the same amount of features and payment options Steam offers.

More likely Steam will be just fine. I can even see Galaxy 2 being more used than Epic in the future. (granted one's a client and the other a sales platform).

On a note. Epic just added DRM to a game in its 1.04 patch (forgot which), which seems rather pointless but oh well.

I'd be more concerned about where streaming and subs are likely to take gaming than where the platforms are going to be in x years though.

yaaaaaaah no

sad lee teh internet will become some kind of over-regulated fuck-net

but it will still be here

castrated, regulated, integrated

rip

then again mebbe it will censor yo' weird-ass

I won't be purchasing any games from Epic because of PC exclusive games BS. Plus Epic needs to do alot of work on their store because of the issues they have had with their first major sale. I am curious to see how Epic does major sales in the future because of their 1st major sale being a disaster on a few levels such as the anti-fraud protection kicking in if you purchased too many games in a short time period and having to remove games from their store front because the devs didn't wan't to participate in the sale and Epic didn't have any way of blacklisting certain games from the sale.

Lol like nintendo playstation nintendo aren’t for everyone,streaming is not for everyone so relax.Its not a replacement more an addition.I think physical media could be in danger but local gaming will always be a thing.Why would you stream if you have the hardware and the modding scene is huge on pc.A pc can’t be replaced anyway it will always give you the best experience

Why wouldn't they want their games in a sale. Steam automatically puts them on sale as well IIRC.

Don't know. Don't care. Don't buy from either.

No putting sticks in dogpoo will become all the rage.