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Quoting: TcheyI really don't know how they could think this economy model was a good idea for a VIRTUAL cards game.

What's the difference between a virtual and a physical card game?

whats the difference between vinyl and mp3?

mp3 is not physical and is compressed. A vinyl is more rare.

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Quoting: GuestIs this free or not?

It's literally in the next article: "The Steam Link App is now available free of charge for the Raspberry Pi 3B and 3B+ running Raspbian Stretch."

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Quoting: TcheyI really don't know how they could think this economy model was a good idea for a VIRTUAL cards game.

What's the difference between a virtual and a physical card game?

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Quoting: GuestI know this is going to sound harsh, because text can be taken that way, but I mean this as something more akin to a constructive comment: you appear to have "Valve blinders" on. The original comment was about if Fortnite disappears, what do Epic have? They have Unreal Tournament. The original UT was up there with Quake3. It's really not hard for Epic to build more success around Unreal Tournament, and use that to continue to leverage their own store. And yes, that keeps them quite happily in competition with Valve.

I don't think Fortnite is going anywhere soon, but I don't think Unreal Tournament is such a draw anymore. Arena shooters might just not be a thing anymore. Law Breakers completely failed. I don't know how many people play Quake Champions outside of Steam but on Steam it's just ~1400 players on average. And don't you think there's a reason why they stopped working on the new UT?

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Quoting: mylkai mean ubisoft has a franchise for every year. what does epic have, when the fortnite hype is over?

Unreal Tournament. And an engine that they're not exactly going to make difficult to use with their store.

So does Steam, they just need to finally release it :D

https://www.polygon.com/2015/3/3/8145273/valve-source-2-announcement-free-developers [External Link]

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunActually, we have zero indication of this. I have absolutely no idea on what you're basing your assumptions, except for this one game, that was announced as a timed exclusive.

Epic are giving away Subnautica the coming weekend. Since it not reasonable to think that the dev is just giving away their game to promote the Epic store, it is Epic pulling their wallet to bring in people. If they do it for this game, they likely did it for others as well.

Subnautica was already a part of the Humble Freedom Bundle (47 games for 30$) almost two years ago... so I got it for less than 1$. Epic won't catch me with such lazy tricks :P

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Quoting: kuhpunktYou think console owners would be happy if they had to log into 12 different accounts on their system?

Don't they already have to do that for Uplay, Origin, Fortnite, etc?

No. Those things aren't a thing on consoles.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunValve are a business that is trying to get its customers money by providing goods and services. Gabe Newell is a businessman, not our buddy or pal. Nothing more, nothing less.

One doesn't exclude the other.

Quoting: mao_dze_dunWriting a love letter to a company that doesn't give a damn about you (because it doesn't) is just weird. I appreciate what Valve did for Linux gaming, but in the end that's nothing more than a business decision.

Of course it's business - but you know what's good for business? Happy customers. So of course they give a damn about you. If you aren't happy, you will leave. If you leave they won't get your money.

Quoting: mao_dze_dunI don't write a thank you letter to the restaurants I eat at.

Why not? The owner might be happy to hear that his work is appreciated.

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Quoting: stephenseiber420I must say I get competition is great but I hate having my games split between multiple apps library. got command and conquer, battle field 4, and sim city with EA. wow, diablo 3 and star craft 2 with battlenet, witcher 3 with gog and 300 games on steam.

Is it too difficult to click another icon to launch a game? Some strange people even buy game consoles - big expensive devices intended only for playing few games.

Maybe not difficult, but annoying. That's what is/was so great about Steam. It was comfortable. That's also what is/was great about consoles. You just start it and press play. Steam offers the same thing. You think console owners would be happy if they had to log into 12 different accounts on their system?

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Quoting: GuestFor all of Valve's (appreciated!) efforts and funding elsewhere, Steam itself is still a walled garden (a nice garden to be sure, but walled regardless).

Isn't the definition of walled garden pretty much the idea that only the store owner decides what goes and what doesn't? Because Steam is pretty open. Everybody can release their stuff there. MS doesn't do this, Epic doesn't do this...

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