r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 13h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/gigatension 13h ago

I don’t think they’re actually trying to get people away from Steam I think they’re trying to get people who have never been on Steam to think that epic is better. There’s no way they think they can actually get customers to switch with their garbage platform.

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u/BLT_Trade_r 12h ago

Their previous strategy of giving away free games and just having games people wanted to play was honestly the best. They should have just kept going with that and tried to nail exclusives. Exclusives of highly desired games are pretty much the only really effective strategy for all platforms. Its the only reason anyone uses Battlenet, Origin, and others, and its a mainstay of the success or failure of consoles.

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u/Dotura 12h ago edited 11h ago

I do like that your examples are of stores that now uses steam because exclusive didn't work out for them.

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u/BLT_Trade_r 11h ago

No one says it will absolutely work, but I can confidently say the only reason I have any of those accounts is because of their exclusives. I can also say that's the entire reason I started with Steam: Half-Life. People may not like the answer, but it's true. Steam literally sucked when it was getting going and sucked for a long time. They were just lucky in that they were early in the market and had the hottest games on earth at the time. If you wanted to play Counter-Strike or Half-Life, you had to use Steam. People complained about Steam back then as much as they do now about Origin or Epic.

But that is kinda the key: you need that killer game to get you kick-started; then you have to keep going with it. It's way harder to break in once someone pretty much has a monopoly.

Let's not sugarcoat Steam either; Gabe has had many scenarios where he doesn't kick things into gear until there is a legitimate threat.

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u/Dotura 11h ago

Epic, battle.net and origin all are between 8-20 years old and could look to steam and the complaints people had on it of things to do and not to do. They still haven't gotten to a place where they are good just generally usable. With BF6 i couldn't even play the game though EAs own app. I had to refund and buy it on steam so i could play with my friends with the limited time we have as adults now.

I'd say Fortnight and Wow both were killer games. WoW more aging for sure but Overwatch was good though not killer like you probably mean. Fortnight alone is a giant on several platforms and probably had more new players because it was free, CS had a price up until 2018. I even bought Fortnight because i really enjoyed the pre BR thing and yet they can't get off the ground? Free games and they still run in the red as people don't use the service and don't buy games there.

I'm not here to suck steam off im mostly confused as to how badly the others manage to run their own company. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and get a middle finger as a thanks.

Just an odd fun fact; i have never had a single problem with ubisoft, and that launcher is known to be terrible. Maybe im reverse cursed or something.