[LegitShady]

thats because epic store is trash, and on top of that they buy exclusives, which created a lot of hostility with customers.

I won't make an epic account, not even for free games, after they started with buying exclusives as their first move.

Thats not because valve is a monopoly or because I love valve, but because epic is actively garbage and I won't give them money.

[dijit]

I don't really mind, but you can't levy this same criticism against UPlay and it gets the same level of vitriol.

From the gamedev perspective it just looks like people have decided that Valve is the desired monopoly.

A fact that Valve are very content to use against game developers, it seems.

(I say this, owning an OLED steamdeck and being extremely pleased that proton exists; but don't forget that Proton exists because Microsoft was doing to Valve, what Valve does to game developers, and Valve wanted leverage)

[LegitShady]

I also don't use uplay - I haven't bought a ubisoft game in many years, because uplay is trash and ubisoft is a garbage company.

[dijit]

Thank you for proving my point.

(not sarcasm, I find it ironic and beautiful)

[LegitShady]

But Uplay is trash. It's a totally unnecessary piece of drm with its own login that delays how long it takes to get to playing games. There is nothing positive about it. At the same time I don't think Ubisoft has made a game worth playing since far cry 3, so not buying their games is normal and good.