Nice. I'll probably try this tonight!.

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Get fucked Timmy.

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Terrible naming. I thought this was a standalone product until I read the press release. Now I'm only about 50% sure that it's a software stack? I'm still actually not sure what they're talking about here.

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I wonder what province Timmy is moving too.

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So wild to me when people make these claims against Valve.

GOG, Humble, Itch, Amazon, Epic, Origin, and even the Microsoft Store are other options to sell your game.

Also, read some of these cringe statements.

"A gamer that has an extensive list of friends on the Steam Gaming Platform along with a large library of games is less likely to purchase the Xbox edition of the game, even if she owns an alternative platform like the Xbox."

No shit?

"Moreover, games that are released on multiple platforms and allow online multiplayer gaming do not always allow the players on each platform to game together. For example, a game released on both PC Desktop and PlayStation does not necessarily allow the PC Desktop gamers to play with the PlayStation gamers. The same is true across PC Desktop Gaming Platforms like the Steam Gaming Platform and the EGS Platform—while both platforms utilize PC hardware, it is still not guaranteed that multiplayer functionality will work across platforms. Therefore, if a gamer has built a large social network on a specific gaming platform, she may lose access to the ability to enjoy multiplayer games with others in her social network if she switches gaming platforms."

How is this Valve's fault in anyway?

Publishers likewise face high switching costs when considering alternative gaming platforms. Games are often published for use on particular platforms in order to leverage platform-specific features like multiplayer, automatic updates, and social networking features. Publishers must often write platform-specific code that makes it costly to publish their games simultaneously on multiple platforms. Therefore, creating alternative versions of games is costly, as shown by the presence of publishers that publish their games solely for the Steam Gaming Platform.

So Valve is "abusing" their market position because they offer services that allow devs to integrate with their platform? How is this any different from Microsoft and Sony doing it on their systems? Also, you don't have to use any of Steam's features if you don't want to.

If a PC Desktop Gaming Platform obtains an exclusive sales contract with a game publisher, gamers using other PC Desktop Gaming Platforms often react negatively, because they want to use the PC Desktop Gaming Platform of their choice and not lose the benefits that have locked them into that PC Desktop Gaming Platform over time.

No, we're mad at Epic for sniping games away and requiring them to be locked in to the EGS. If a company only wants to sell their game on one platform that's their prerogative.

They even make that exact argument in the next paragraph.

The exclusive release of Borderlands 3 as enabled for the EGS Platform (rather than the Steam Gaming Platform), for example, triggered a backlash among some gamers, with reactions including “calls for boycotts, Youtube rants, conspiracy theories and review bombing.”16One user started a petition on the “r/gaming” online Reddit community. That user argued, “We can’t just let Epic Games keep buying out exclusives to their [expletive] launcher. This is very anti consumer and it is literally epic paying millions to 2k [Borderlands 3’s publisher] just to [expletive] over us the buyers. I really suggest everyone on pc to boycott the game until it releases on steam so Epic does not get any of our money.”17 If the use of one PC Desktop Gaming Platform were fully interchangeable with the use of another, there would be no objection or protest to the exclusive launch of a game on an alternative PC Desktop Gaming Platform, and instead gamers would freely switch to the EGS Platform. That platforms within the relevant market are not interchangeable demonstrates that the products at issue in the relevant market are not interchangeable with products outside the relevant market.

How are they this self aware?

I really don't think this lawsuit can be read in anyway other than a proxy lawsuit for Epic.

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Any idea what they're talking about in this tweet [External Link]?

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>overly lewd

I just need to be your VN reviewer I guess.

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Yuri is the purest of love forms.

Esperanto is the purest of languages.

How can this not apply to you? SMH.

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Is this similar to Recettear? I've been craving another game similar to it.

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I personally will make sure it goes well. Being able to use my GC controller for everything is a dream.

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