I was pretty hyped for the new prince of persia game (the lost crown), but come to find out it's only available on ubisoft's proprietary launcher or epic games. Nope, and nope.

I just want to have it available on my usual storefront, Steam, but it's been decidedly omitted. As a long time fan of the old games, this kind of hurts. Especially since many of the others -are- available on Steam.

I wonder if/when it will come out for Steam. These platform exclusivity deals need to die.

Edit: It's also available on several consoles, my post was just from a pc gamer's perspective.

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[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If Palworld was available exclusively on Steam would you care?

No, because that would be the dev's choice. It's also the dev's choice to take a bribe from Epic and such, but Valve does nothing extra to encourage exclusivity.

If any other game you care about and wanted to play was exclusively on Steam, would there be a post or comment complaining about it?

People have and still do complain when games aren't on GoG. Not as much anymore but it happened.

Offering financial incentives isn’t the forcing anyone

OK, we're done. You don't understand or acknowledge financial coercion so this is going nowhere. Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye.

[–] Dexx1s@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

'tis a shame you couldn't say what words I'd put in your mouth.

No, because that would be the dev's choice.

That "because" isn't actually telling the reason. You'd be fine with it, because it's on Steam. Any kind of exclusivity is also the devs choice, and you obviously have a problem when they choose to be exclusive to a platform you don't use.

but Valve does nothing extra to encourage exclusivity.

Apart from having the most market share, that you yourself already admitted.

People have and still do complain when games aren't on GoG.

I never asked about anybody else. I asked about you. Or should I take it you never complained when games aren't also on GoG?

OK, we're done. You don't understand or acknowledge financial coercion so this is going nowhere. Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye.

Oh, damn, imagine thinking that once there's money on the table they must take it, and then at the same time, not understanding the value of a near monopoly. Steam is literally leveraging the large amount of people that will buy the game if it's on Steam. I even acknowledged it. Me saying that they don't have to take it is quite literally acknowledging it. But ok, byyyyyyyyyyyyyye.