I believe that’s called “Pay to Win” in gamer culture.

Nobody ever hurt a company or made them reconsider their decisions by giving them money, no matter how little it was.

Unless they’re actively losing money in their deal, they’re not gonna care if the sale comes immediately or years later. If Epic exclusive + late “hold outs” = $$$, they’re just gonna do that until the equation changes.

I’m not sure why you’re trying to convince me about it. I’m not the one deciding to sell out to Epic.

You care about downvotes?

Not my intention on your comment. More so commenting everyone else’s reaction to my comments pointing to the same thing.

Presumably they think the money they get from Epic is more than the money they’ll lose in sales

Congrats on getting the point.

I’m aware of what an actual boycott is.

In what way is it not? They get Epic’s money for exclusivity and know they’ll still get sales after it ends from people that “boycott” them for doing that.

Buying the game later doesn’t hurt them, it just reinforces the same behavior later.

If that was actually a concern, why would companies do it at all?

And? It’s still profit. If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be listed.

In what way does that matter outside of driving sales? Which people like op happily still gave them?

Yes, we should reward decisions we dislike. That’ll show 'em.

So they still got your money eventually. That’s a double win, in their eyes.

Women are dying to this bullshit and your biggest concern is getting a laugh?

So when you’re kind of enthused about something but not, like, really psyched, you can say, “That sounds like a skeli-ton of fun.”

Hope you’re able to get through that at some point. There’re some banger 2d games. Terraria, of course. Stardew(ish) if the farm sim genre is your jam. Hollow Knight, which is in contention for my favorite game of all time. A huge number of great rogue-likes.

Selfish and rude to do, let alone brag about.

As much as I want the update, I respect their respect for their devs. Let crunch be a thing of the past.

That’s great. I’m glad to hear it is having at least some positive impact despite my reservations.