My go-to is GoG, but I definitely want Steam to lose some market share in favor of literally anybody else. I will worry about moving that extra share towards GoG when the market isn't a full on monopoly. But hey, yeah, stop using Steam and go to Gog whenever you can. You heard it here first. DRM-free software should be your first choice.

They’re so desperate to make their store front a thing

No one cares.

Yeah yeah, what about making the EGS program not suck for customers? An overglorified browser running on top of unreal engine, no user reviews for games...

Naw, each time I buy on gog over steam I end up regretting it for some reason, usually related to modding or portability. Gogs great, but has limitations. With steam everything works better.

So true. All they have to do is WAY FUCKING MORE THAN THEY ARE WILLING TO. Fuck Epic

> the vast majority of the money that valve makes comes from indie games, not big studios This is definitely not the case. Big studios price their games higher *and* sell more copies. There are only a handful of indie games like Stardew Valley and Terraria that come close to being in the same spot of the bell curve. Most of Valve's money comes from microtransactions in the longest-running live services and the biggest games of the year.

I've not used Epic games store much at all but I could see this leading to a proliferation of garbage on their service if they take the Steam approach of just letting anyone publish on there. This would essentially be an incentive to publish asset flip shovelware on Epic instead of Steam because "devs" get a bigger cut.

Do they officially support Linux yet? No heroic doesn't count.

They do not, and never will.

I hate epic too but game devs do

Ah yeah my bad its the number of sales where indie games win. In terms of money its almost 50/50 tho. 

If it free, there is an incentive to release quantity and not quality, it could become a spam problem. I am all for having a lower percentage though, but 0 could be a problem.

Until it doesnt and your entire game library is done...

> People are sick and tired of expensive garbage games and that shows in the drastic changes in revenue from 2023-2024. Be careful not to make the data fit your conclusion. Anecdotally, I've observed a similar sentiment, but for one thing, AAA releases have slowed down due to long development times, so there just aren't that many of them in a given year. For another, we know that, by a wide margin, most time spent gaming is only on a handful of mainstay games that first debuted years ago, like Counter-Strike 2, Grand Theft Auto V, Fortnite, Minecraft, etc. Plenty of those aren't on Steam, but the same concept applies to the games that top the Steam charts.

This is great and it's not like they have shit revenue splits anyway as last I checked it was 88/12 which is by far the best around.

Eh, I've mostly moved over to Godot for actual game making

*"Bite my shiny metal ass, penguins!"* ~ Epic CEO ^(paraphrased)^

Cause that would probably get abused for things like money laundering, since Steam is open for everyone who wants to sell a game unlike Epic’s store. You can just set up a shell corp that releases shitty shovelware and buy the game from yourself with steam cards you bought from the store with your dirty cash. And then you’d get all your money back ready to be taxed and laundered.

It is hilarious. Epic tried getting users by giving them free games. But that didn't translate to increased sales. And now they are trying to woo developers to abandon Steam, hoping that way customers will be forced to buy from Epic. They don't understand that developers are on Steam _because_ customers are there. And what does a customer get when they use Epic over Steam?