• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    21 hours ago

    Epic only does it because they know they’re the underdog. If that were to one day become untrue they would never do anything like this again.

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      14 hours ago

      I mean, yeah.

      You sorta figured out competition in marketplaces.

      Hey, I’m a social democrat. I’m all for intervening in markets, but for commodity entertainment products competition works pretty well, as you just explained.

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      19 hours ago

      They will continue doing it if they need to compete. Capitalism working as intended. Who would’ve thought

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        16 hours ago

        Sure, I’m just saying Epic is not any better than Valve in that regard. They’re just in a different position. It wouldn’t make financial sense for Steam to do something like that.

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      20 hours ago

      And steam doesn’t do it at all.

      One approach is objectively better for the little guys than the other.

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        20 hours ago

        Sure, I’m just saying Epic is not any better than Valve in that regard. They’re just in a different position.