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Quoting: LoudTechieOn the anti-trust stuff

What about the price parity enforcement Valve has been doing?

There's been no evidence that that's a thing that they've done.

Maybe some evidence of that will turn up, but it hasn't yet.

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Quoting: KithopI'll echo the sentiment here though: good news for publishers, but they're doing *nothing* for consumers, so why should we care?

Their plan is to starve Steam users of games, so you should probably care. There's definitely no reason to welcome it, of course.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Epic Games reduce their cut for Unreal Engine games for same-day Epic Store launches

I'm pretty sure that is illegal and that other companies have been litigated against for this kind of thing.

You'd have to show that Unreal Engine had a dominant market position in game engines, and that they were using that to unfairly tie the Epic Games Store. It's a feasible argument, but not a slam dunk.

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Quoting: CatKillerI realised partway through the second game that the character I'd created was basically Xena.

You only realized that after one and a half games? :shock:

Yeah... Strong, charismatic, good with weapons and first aid but otherwise not too bright. Just how it turned out. Till I noticed, at least, and then I leaned into it.

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Quoting: neolithOh, I should give them a try then. I've gotten two of them in a bundle I think, but I've never looked into them let alone on the Deck.

The trackpads are super comfy for it. I don't generally go for RPGs, but those ones grabbed me. In part, I suspect, because I could just do a bit as and when on the sofa rather than having it be a big time commitment. I realised partway through the second game that the character I'd created was basically Xena.

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I did really enjoy the Shadowrun games on the Deck, so I'd recommend picking those up to anyone that's interested. The individual games are in the sale but the trilogy bundle hasn't had that discount applied and so works out more expensive than getting the games separately.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThis just makes me think back to the early days of video games where a single dude in his basement, or the back of some store writes up a game that everyone wants.

Not just the early days, though. [External Link]

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It's a shame Sony are being so sloppy with their PC releases at the moment. The little one was intrigued by the setting of HZD but is too young to play it himself for now, so we built a Lego tallneck together. This would be a great alternative for him to play on the Deck if Sony weren't half-arsing their Deck support.

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For the nerds

I don't think we have any of those here. No, definitely not.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe big question there is always, how many of them are playing anything other than Fortnite?

I expect that most of the EGS CCUs aren't playing anything at all, just like with Steam - Steam had 38 M people on, but only 12 M of them were playing a game at the time.

But, yeah, in terms of revenue it's mostly Fortnight for EGS. $310 M for sales of third-party games out of $950 M total in 2023; we learned from the Epic vs Apple trial that Valve makes about the same amount from third-party games through Steam as they make from their own games.

Edit: the latest figure I've found says that 78% of Fortnite players are on console, so third-party PC games are an even smaller chunk of Epic's revenue than you'd see by just looking at PC EGS numbers.

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