Why are games priced higher in other regions?
Also just wanna throw out that I fucking love gog. I like it a whole lot more than steam tbqh
I think it's Tax reasons mostly.
I hope things like this show people how the "competition" of Epic Games is fucking more than just Steam.
exchange rates and shit, along with aformentioned tax stuff
I'm curious what this has to do with Epic? Doesnt GOG primarily sell older titles?
Not anymore, GOG sells both old and new games. For what I understand, some developers demanded a better revenue share to GOG, that they granted but because they don't have infinite cash like Epic with Fortnite, they needed to make some sacrifices to do it. GOG also has recently laid off a dozen of employees so they are not in a very healthy situation.
It's because some people make less money on average elsewhere. You can't sell a product 1/3 of people can't afford unless you the price is proportional to the avg. pay.
Well UK has 20% VAT so that fucks us at times.
What I'm honestly surprised at is how much it's "working." I don't know anyone who uses the Epic Games store nor do I have any desire to use it myself.
Yeah the ability to download and offline installer is a brilliant thing to have, sure it takes up space on your HDD but if you've got a bigass Hard Drive, just download all the offline installers, pop them on there and you're sorted for whenever you want to install those games, storing the installers on a big HDD to then install onto an SSD, can't go wrong.
I mostly use GOG for old games and can't even be bothered with the SSD part, shit's gonna load in a splitsecond anyways.
GoG has been selling new games, they're quality controlled unlike on Steam.
The issue is that Epic is basically doing what Amazon did, using another productive business to take massive losses so they can drive down costs and monopolize.
I suspect median buying power is higher in Europe than in the US.
Yeah man, fuck convenience, we just love installing multiple programs to manage the games we pay for, screw us for wanting everything in one place, jeez.
Do you remember like in real life, how if you wanted to play a game before all this digital wankery became common place, you'd have to take your game out of safe and then leave it open in case you want to play another game, but if you wanted to play that other game that's in another safe, you'd have to also open that one and keep it open, same goes for that other game too, another safe you'd keep open.
Seriously though why are you calling people lazy when we just don't want to have to have like 5 different launchers for our games? It's not that it's effort it's just that we don't want to have to deal with all this extra shite, I might not that much against it myself but it's an inconvenience I could easily do without, but nope, everyone has to have their own because profits or some shit.
What in the fuck are you talking about fucking convience; we had those long before Steam completely destroyed that kind of shit with the myriad of chat programs that you could also use to launch your games from.
Fuck off with this convenience argument, that convenience argument is what leads to fucking monopolies in the first place digitally. That's why we're stuck with Youtube, Facebook and etc because we're lazy and don't want to have a few extra windows open.
And I'm calling you lazy because oh no you have 5 fucking launchers open. In reality, what does that do? You're gonna have them minimized to the fucking taskbar to begin with so they're not in your way; they don't chew up ram. THey don't take up fucking space, megabytes at most with the games holding the majority of the data.
I wasn't aware that you needed to download launchers to view internet videos.
Calling me out on the convenience argument when you're trying trying to use the lazy argument, it's not laziness that's stops me from wanting to open up these different programs, it's my unwillingness to use those platforms because, for the most part, they're fucking shit, they're either slow to use and/or have a bad user interface, why would I want to use something like that when Steam and even GoG are quick enough have acceptable user interfaces, the monopoly you speak of doesn't exist because the competition doesn't give a shit, if they gave a shit then maybe I'd be more willing to use their platform and buy games on them, but I'm not going to.
Especially Epic Launcher, Epic Games can go and fuck themselves, I absolutely refuse to use their platform or buy games on it through principle alone, they can do without my money until they show they're not just money hungry cunts.
The convenience argument doesn't really work with GoG anyway because you don't have to use GoG Galaxy, you can just download the offline installers and then add them to steam unofficially.
GOG have an optional client you can use that gives you that same functionality.
GOG.com
We're actually stuck with Youtube because it's incredibly expensive to do what they're doing and very few companies have the infrastructure to support it. And the company that is doing it is losing money on it.
There really isn't any evidence that Youtube is not profitable today.
This is a bit of an aside, but Playnite is pretty workable if you have too many different launchers to deal with otherwise:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/532/48cec572-4891-4337-8ccd-45e9898241ba/grafik.png
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/532/0764a045-5886-4a90-bb27-12e03c97fd21/grafik.png
It's basically the Steam library, but with slightly more features and for all of these stores together.
The game pages have a links section from where you can jump into the relevant forums or Steam pages.
The amount of video uploaded per second versus the server hosting costs versus the revenue generated by advertising.
I'd be willing to bet they're still losing money.
300 hours of video is uploaded per minute. Regardless of bitrate or quality, that's a fuck ton of terabytes per day.
I mean between origin, battle.net, steam and gog galaxy I can't think of anytime I've considered them 'fucking shit', they're all really intuitive launchers with minimal overhead. Bonus points if they offer p2p downloading like war thunder does
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