DSOGaming notes a series of
posts on Reddit
from Tim Sweeney have more from the Epic Games CEO on what's going on in the
Epic Games Store, where Epic's discounted take is adding a little disruption to
the online games market. One post
on Reddit Sweeney defends the practice of signing games to exclusive
distribution deals, saying that this is a "PROCOMPETITIVE issue and the PC
remains an open platform." Here's a bit:
Yes, and the PC remains open,
and there is more robust competition among PC stores than ever before. There's
Steam offering Valve games, Origin offering EA games, Battle.net offering
Activision and Bungie games, Epic Games offering games from many publishers.
I get that you guys don't like store-exclusive games, but that's a completely
separate, and PROCOMPETITIVE issue, compared to closing down platforms like
Windows to monopolize distribution, as iOS does, and as Microsoft was trying to
do with UWP and locked-down versions of Windows -- which failed, and whose
proponents are now gone and replaced with great leaders like Satya Nadella and
Phil Spencer who are driving Windows forward as an open platform!