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Because honest to god, between getting a better cut and being buried in trash, I would honestly go for the former 'evil' option, especially as a smaller title. No, I'm sorry, the sheer quanity has made browsing for games a nightmare. Funny you mention user reviews. Steam just introduced an algorithm (yes, another one) that denies review-bombing. So if there's a sweeping anti-consumer change in a game that tanks a games review score? Don't expect to hear it on steam, as it'll just block negtitive reviews for a while. They'll totally take positive reviews during this time though. Valve are truly the heroes we deserve.
As opposed to literally blocking any and all forms of communication on the platform? Wow, you really know how to sell EGS as a piece of shit.
Yeah somehow I actually think this is worse. This is more of a personal thing, but I never found steam reviews that handy for deciding on a game - a lot tend to just be meme filler and now it's going to be worse. Have some critically acclaimed game that just made some new drastic change like shoving in lootboxes after saying they woulden't (ala Payday 2)? Well, don't expect to hear this from Steam - the algorithms just blocked review bombing. As such, they can totally keep their positive rating. Transparency and anti-consumer practices can go fuck themselves on the peoples platform, apparently. Now I do think reviews will be implemented by Epic down the line (I mean for fucks sake, they don't even have their own backlog of games on the platform) but they don't as of writing so I'm going to say that having a completely neutered review system is only barely a step up from having none at all.
I love how Bethesda Launcher exclusives got a lot more acceptable after Epic entered the ring lol.
Have you actually READ steam reviews then? Gems get popular, and sold based on these in my experience. go to the "Dawn of Man" steam page, "Banished", "They Are Billions", "Dead Cells", or literally hundreds of more titles than that, and the reviews for the most part, are the kind of content that helps me make up my mind as to whether the game will be for me. You, choosing to not use those, and preferring a store front that is basically clinical in it's presentation is fine, but it's not because EGS is providing a better service, it's because you're apathetic.
I think downloading another launcher is mostly just a mild annoyance, and Bethesda isn't trying to gain control of the digital PC games market like what Epic is attempting. Personally, when I was playing the Quake Champions closed beta, the only real reason why I couldn't stand using Beth.net is because of how terribly the program handled downloading and updating games, which appears to have been drastically improved since.
Unless you go looking for trash, you're not going to find trash. The front page and several pages of top sellers and new releases are all AAA/indie titles that people want to see. The industry standard cut that they take is just that, industry standard, and your game is feasibly not actually going to get buried under asset flips. I don't understand your fears. Also, what you're talking about prevents the overall score from changing in a short period of time. Negative reviews aren't blocked, and the consumer is free to go into the review section and browse them at will. No, I don't particularly agree with Valve doing that, but it has nothing to do with the conversation at hand.
Bethesda, Ubisoft and EA (all of which have launchers) haven't been going out of their way to get developers and their publishers who are almost finished development on a game to suddenly drop their plans to launch on steam right near launch of said game, especially not after allowing pre-orders on steam to occur. Pretty much all of the games on the 3 companies mentioned before have either been directly developed by or are the original publishers for said games. Their launchers may have had issues but they have been able to mature over time to improve their platforms. The Epic launcher is new in comparison and has a long way to come.
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