mdtexeira

I registered just to post about this. I've been trolling these forums for ages, especially for the sweet POE1 and Deadfire builds. Shout out to Boeroer...I've always enjoyed your themed builds. I'm pretty sure I own every single released Obsidian game to date, and it's quite likely that I'll end up getting Outer Worlds when it comes to Steam. I'm extremely disappointed, a little at the publisher's choice here, but more at the rise of exclusivity in the PC market. That we didn't have the manipulative marketing which seems so toxically pandemic in the console market was, in my mind, perhaps the best thing about the platform. On the flip side, I've got hundreds of games in my Steam library that I've never touched. If I spend every day trying out two new games from my existing library, I wouldn't clear out the unplayed games (some of them almost certainly amazing games [Kerbal Space Program, Grim Dawn, Papers Please, and so many more]) before The Outer Worlds is available on Steam. This is, at the end of the day, why Epic will likely fail to seriously impact the market through its devious strategy of dividing the market. If I have to choose between installing Epic Game Store or dumping another 100 hours into Europa Universalis 4 and/or installing Yakuza 0, it's an easy choice. In the meantime, I hope that the community can unite in making clear that we don't want exclusivity in the PC gaming market. I will personally do this by boycotting the Epic Game Store. I would be sad to see a future for PC gaming in which the kind of marketing that kept The Last of Us out of my hands becomes the dominant paradigm. Ultimately, it will be consumer behavior which determines if this becomes a successful gambit to be emulated and exacerbated or not.