Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2

It makes me wonder how it would feel as a game dev getting this deal taken to the extreme.

“Hello, human. I’ve come from the pits of Tartarus to offer a deal. You’ve just finished making a video game. My request is: Do not release it anywhere for 2 years. In exchange, I will give you 5 million dollars.”

They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.

Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.

So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.

Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second games launcher

No.

Don't force me to install a garbage dump that runs like shit and isn't even close to feature complete to play a game.

Or do and I won't pay, either way works lol.

Edit:

Noone is a fan of exclusives but Epic's behaviour was explicitly to try and break Steam's entrenched monopoly and they legitimately offer far more favourable terms for developers.

What a surprise, an epic defender that thinks that monopoly means store do good. There are plenty of competition against steams store, they just don't get market share because they're not feature complete or they just suck.

Or both in epic's case.

Or just... Don't make a launcher?

Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second games launcher.

I'm neither bitching nor installing that shit. I take every freebie, but never install anything other than through Steam, just let 'em pile up. I'm actually not bothered by exclusivity at all, I only exceedingly rarely pay for games before they're 75% off a few years down the line. Stuff like Synthetik 2 or Shapez 2, where I know what I'm getting and it's a small team with an uncompromising vision.

Epic’s behaviour was explicitly to try and break Steam’s entrenched monopoly

Steam doesn't have monopoly on anything, they just have superior service that people prefer, but there's quite a few stores / launchers. I like Epic's engine, but their launcher is still crap five years down the line.

yawn

If it's not on Steam or GoG I pirate. Console children should go touch grass or go to school so they understand something other than defending multi-billion dollar megacorps.

I can agree that challenging Steam is probably a good thing, but right now Steam just gives so much more value to Devs and publishers. Steam provides:

• a review system
• remote play
• the workshop
• discussion threads
• cards and the points store

and that's just what I can think of, not including the player specific stuff like library sharing.

Devs and publishers pay more, but get a community and ecosystem in return instead of just a platform.

Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second game launcher.

No, and fuck you.

There is no purpose in a second game launcher and it only causes things to be cumbersome. Hell, games don't technically need any launcher.

I prefer EA and Ubisoft.

Not really I don't think ... Anna Purna already publishes a lot of games and has published a lot of notable films in the past few years.

I feel like if anything it's most notable because Anna Purna has deeper pockets than Remedy, more experience in film and television, and produce notably high quality creative and narrative work, meaning that they're unlikely to screw up Remedy's writing chops and can legitimately help them expand their mixed media ambitions.