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twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1113875011553697793
tl;dr Review bombings are playing into Epic's hands, making Steam a less attractive place to launch a game. Boycotts don't work as the only people who suffer are the devs. Epic's exclusivities aren't there to make them money, they're there so Steam can't (similar to Uber running at a loss to destabilise the traditional cab industry).
Unfortunately, Gamers don't really get any of this and are reacting to the headline stuff only, rather than the baseline horror of Epic's business practices. The rage is coming not from the blatant gaming of the free market by a company with more money than God, but from change and denied privilege.
What's now interesting to me is the split amongst the gaming community's left. Guys like Rami Ismael are similar to me in that the exclusivities are a means to an unintended end, that end being the improvement of Steam as a platform, and guys like Casey above who are more concerned with the intended ends, Epic becoming a new monopoly and a worse one than Steam ever was.
I still believe the review bombing achieves nothing, and that the majority of people reacting to this are doing so for surface level, reactionary reasons but there's definitely more sinister overtones to Epic's practices than I initially thought.
EDIT; I will say though that, unlike the Uber example, Valve aren't some old world remnant being swept away by the march of technology. Their sedentary attitude towards the management of their store has, in many respects, given Epic the room to move in like this. Yes this didn't directly cause the exclusivity practice but it did open up the opportunity for real competition.
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