You just said free games were bad 3 times with no justification lmao.
A loss leader is standard business practice across all businesses.
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GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 8 months agoBecause Epic’s store is bad and rather than trying to compete on quality, they use anticompetitive practices such as paid exclusives to force you to use their inferior app store.
The free games as bait pulls in people to inflate their user counts artificially for investors, because from what I’ve read devs aren’t seeing a lot of purchases from their store.
And they are trying to force these terrible practices into the iOS ecosystem by abusing the legal system in multiple markets.
At the end of the day Epic’s attempt to purchase market share has already been bad for me as a consumer on one platform and it seems like they’re going to cause that same harm on another.
nac82@lemm.ee 8 months ago
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Loss leaders aren’t bad.
Epic games is bad and their loss leaders support them, which is bad.
nac82@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You’re raging about a publisher providing deals to games that are done selling and helping them get some extra coverage.
Your excuse is how you would rather people steal from the developers because that is a better way of supporting them. Your reasoning is that Epic under pays them, while your solution is to pay them nothing.
The irony in this tantrum hurts to read.
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My solution is to pay for the games I want on Steam. Which is only possible for me when Epic doesn’t force exclusivity.
Other people can choose as they like.
There’s no such thing as a free lunch unless it’s FOSS.
I had no idea this would be controversial on lemmy.
brick@lemm.ee 8 months ago
They’re free games though. You may be on a crusade against the epic store and I don’t like multiple stores/launchers/exclusives either, but it’s pretty shitty to begrudge people for downloading and playing free games just because you think it’s counterproductive to the progress of your pet issue. The Outer Worlds is a good game with a compelling story, and your average person who would like to play that game doesn’t have a bunch of spare cash available to buy it when the option of getting it for free is available and extremely easy.
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People have the choice between supporting Epic or sailing the high seas.
I would argue that the latter is the more ethical option.
BluesF@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not averse to donning my hat and eye patch every now and then, but Epic is still more convenient. Maybe the high seas need their own front end…
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly, I bet it would have better features and still somehow make more money for indie developers than the Epic store!
brick@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Some people have that choice, sure.