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I get what you're saying but I've never understood why this makes Steam worse than anything else. You want a game, buy it, use it. Store has a billion things in it but I'm not really getting why that's so bothersome. Do you ever actually use the store to discover new games? I've never done that. I'm not saying it couldn't be better because holy shit it could but like I said before, what is Epic doing better? Also keep in mind that Steamworks does a lot of shit for developers. It's an entire system of servers and all kinds of stuff (match making, invites, friends, etc).

I have a feeling h2o will get sick of me not wanting to buy and buy it for me so I'll shut up. If they legitimately are making a run at the crossplay stuff with Epic's help, I'll actually give them a pass for that because it's commendable. I will not be one of the people that say they're going to go pirate the game though. That's just obnoxious.

Sorry...I keep writing walls of text. Just imagine this in a very calm manner and not like me shouting angrily. I'm definitely not going for that. Microsoft and Sony made their own games for their own platform so of course they have exclusives. I'm sure you didn't support Street Fight 5 or Tomb Raider being bought away from other platforms right? They also have an extremely closed system so I'm confused by this argument.. I know you don't want that so I guess I'm not understanding? At worst just use another site to get recommendations and then go buy them on Steam. They keep trying (very slowly) to make it better but the openness of the system is of course going to flood it with shit. No other launchers really have this problem because they don't let just anyone play in their sandbox. If you want good exclusives, you want Valve to actually make games. That would be nice. The store could use improvements. Epic is doing literally nothing in that space at all that I can see (their store and launcher is worse in every way afaik). Their store has not even remotely a fraction of the games Steam has so they can't be an example to Steam there. I think you're caught up in the competition part (which I can completely understand) but not actually thinking of what specifically Epic is doing to show Steam an example to improve. They literally aren't doing anything better than Steam that I can see (except the debatable 30% thing). A good competitor to Steam would be great. Competition is good. Having an inferior store/client and purchasing exclusives doesn't make Valve improve imo. You know what I mean? That's what frustrates me. On another note, I saw this online: https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-cut-do-valve-actually-take-from-devs-is-it-really-as-high-as-some-people-think-lets-find-out.109435/ Talks about the way the Steam store works with unlimited key generation and retail sales and stuff (I alluded to this earlier). That cut Steam takes isn't quite as cut and dry as it seems. Was surprised by how many keys are sold outside Steam.

Didn't they say they weren't going to come around anymore if people were mean to them or something? Maybe that was just actual developers. Right at this moment I don't blame them from shrinking back a little and figuring out how to handle this.

I am cautiously optimistic about this movie. I love Joaquin Phoenix and this movie looks fucking intense. I hope it's good. DC looks like they're starting to figure this shit out finally and I could not be happier.

My issue with that line of thinking is that the Epic launcher has been around for a couple years and they've done dick with it. They decided to launch their store recently and while I can somewhat understand the need to grab some high profile shit or watch their store die, it's not like they exist in a vacuum right? They could very well have taken the time to launch a proper store front and a proper launcher client that was comparable to Steam or at least like...Origin. I think what makes me mad the most really is seeing them throw money at developers like this instead of spending the time and money to make a client and store that are actually good. No Linux client (this annoyed me greatly after all the work that Valve put in and I've started using Linux a lot more), shitty refund policy, and all the stuff in the image above. It's not the worst thing in the entire world but it's very frustrating and a bit anti consumer. If they get Valve to lower their rates, kudos. That is a net benefit. But I'm still not particularly happy about my favorite game series being forced into a store/launcher I don't want to use. It was annoying enough when every company has to have their own launcher (Blizzard/Activision, Origin, UPlay, Bethesda, etc), but this is even more annoying because now they're snagging 3rd parties exclusively. Plus there is competition. I read that generating Steam keys is free. There are tons of storefronts selling keys to the various launchers (also something Epic doesn't support). That's competition isn't it? I've bought a fair number of games from Green Man Gaming myself. The whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I AM somewhat conflicted because it is a better deal for devs and I hope Valve stands up and takes notice. I'm definitely trying to not be like all the alarmist people on Reddit but I just do not like this at all. I understand that having a competitor that does something better makes Valve do things better (eventually got them to fix their lack of a refund policy). I'm just having a real hard time seeing what Epic is going to make Valve do that actually benefits me as a consumer. That's the question I'd pose.

That's not a trump card. I just saw it and thought it was funny. If Epic can actually funnel money into making their store/client better and stop doing nasty things like buying exclusives, I am all for competition. Throwing piles of cache at developers at the expense of consumers being forced into your shitty store/client is something I am not for. That being said hey, maybe Valve should lower that share. I've always thought 30% was fucking insane (if I'm not mistaken it's not too far off consoles though).

Borderlands 3 launches September 13th. Epic store exclusive until April 2020. Guess I'll be picking this up in April 2020. That's okay. I like getting things on sale anyway. One thing that would change my mind would be if the rumors about Epic helping them get crossplay with console and stuff are true. That's a legitimately great feature and Epic helping companies break down the fucking walls at Sony is fucking A+ with me.

Well now I HAVE to see.

That response from Bioware must be so disheartening to all the people there. Like seriously, you guys aren't fooling anyone with that lame ass response. Just another piece of management that simply has no idea what they're doing.

Find a medium size dog that is still a good protector maybe? You can get a smaller golden retriever. Friendliest dogs on earth but they know who their family is and will protect them. Also seems like she would take to a well trained dog a lot better too. Worth pointing out to her that the dog will listen to her when you guys are done with it.

Oh man I am jelly as fuck. It's also hilarious that you traveled to the US and saw a band from the UK.

This sort of stuff just keeps happening and no one is happy. Worst of all is that every gamer I see says they'd rather a game take longer to make and not be shit but then these companies still rush out something unfinished. Yet this still happens. I think it's just the unbelievable greed of the publishers. Other than that just like endless management problems. That doesn't even seem like the publishers. It seems like the cancerous culture of game development and the seemingly incompetent management in place at all these companies. The shitty culture forces out anyone that can get a better job and the people left break under the pressure and lack of direction from above. Seemed like it was just a Bungie thing but now it seems to be happening a lot. It's sad. I think the thing that made me the most upset reading that was people in the company telling them the parts of the game that sucked and then nothing happening. Holy fuck that would be maddening. To then have those exact complaints given by all the players just drive those people to murder. Seriously.

There's a Discord widget thing on the right side of the portal lol.

This all sounds a LOT like the story of Destiny, to be honest. This kind of stuff SHOULD be aired out so maybe it stops happening.

I'd actually like you to expand upon this and I'll open that with a question. Show me which launcher is better than Steam and then you might have a point about them coasting on good will. The Steam client and storefront and just Valve as a whole have been doing a lot of shit over the years. Between their immense investment into Linux (to try and get Microsoft's strangehold off of PC), their huge investment in VR (new stuff just got leaked yesterday), and the revamp of the friends system into basically Discord, I'm not sure why anyone would be mad at Steam. Maybe they're a little slow at times and they're not always trailblazing but a shitty store with nowhere close to the featureset of Steam is not going to make Steam better. It's just going make PC gaming more annoying with store exclusives. Like I said, I understand when a company makes one of these for their own games. It's understandable. When they start pulling the games of other companies into their stores as exclusives is where I start getting frustrated. That's not consumer friendly and it never will be. If they want to be the better store/client they need to actually MAKE a better store and a better client. Buying exclusives is just forcing people into mediocrity to play the games they want.

A fun little thing about the art style changes on the original game: Behind Borderlands' 11th-hour style change

I KNOW HOW TO FIND EVERYONE. (mostly)

I love that you went to this. Hell yeah.

Finished episode 12. So that's it for now isn't it? Motherfucker. Season 2 isn't until next year.

You were THERE just not with me. Lol. I recall you were nowhere close too. Was at the place the hockey team plays right?

I was going to play around with Docker on my media center box but I'm running ESXi right now (3 VMs) and APPARENTLY you can't run virtualized services inside a virtualized OS very well!

This is one where it's better to just go in blind and be surprised. It's 20 only minutes. Jump in brother.