No.101008
Should bribing be legal in a free market? Epic Games is trying to cut into Steam's market share by paying off game developers to make games like Borderlands 3 exclusive to the Epic Games Store.
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No.101009
>>101008
how the fuck is that even bribing you retard?
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No.101010
>>101009
It's moneyhatting to gain an unfair advantage. It's not even competition it's just who ever has the most money wins
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No.101012
>The Epic Games Store
Literally who? They won't even succeed in the current market, much less a free market.
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No.101013
>>101012
Epic is paying developers to make their games exclusives to the Epic Games Store to attract more customers
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No.101014
Do mutts and first world cumskins seriously pay for games? Literal cattle lmao
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No.101017
>should competing for customers be legal in a free market?
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No.101029
>>101014
Paying for vidya when there's torrents is like paying taxes when you're in ancap.
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No.101031
>>101010
Paying for having an exclusive is something normal and good for everybody. The developer, instead of having to worry about selling a gazillion copies, gets the money first and the distributor has something exclusive that will expand its userbase.
Are you 15? Please tell me you're 15 or less. I don't like to bring people down for not understanding certain arguments but this is some basic stuff.
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No.101038
>>101010
Who gives a shit? It's a major gamble and every time you do it you're potentially throwing huge chunks of profit out the window that will eventually come back to bite you in the ass.
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No.101039
>>101008
>Epic Games is trying to cut into Steam's market share by paying off game developers to make games like Borderlands 3 exclusive to the Epic Games Store.
I fail to see the problem here. Do you have a problem with exclusivity contracts?
Maybe you meant to talk about something more "nefarious" like bribery of competing company officers? The answer there is that investors would insist that their companies be insured against such an event and the insurance companies would serve as a private auditor to ensure no shenanigans happen.
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No.101041
>>101013
My point is that despite that, they have no customers. It's dead on arrival, and bribery is just throwing good money after bad.
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No.101042
>>101029
I'm so sorry, who is forcing you to buy video games?
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No.101044
>>101008
I don't see the problem either, sorry. For the customers, it isn't optimal, yes, but the customer doesn't matter more than anyone else. As a customer, I want games to be free and distributed on whatever platform I like, and I don't care about how much that will cost anyone else. Customers, like every other actor on the market, are selfish, insofar as they are customers. Therefore, as customers, they don't have any moral highground. That something is not optimal for the customer is no argument that it is wrong. The game developer and the publisher both seem to profit from their exclusive deals, and why shouldn't they? They put the work in. The game developer spent hundreds or thousands of hours creating the game, and the publisher has to maintain servers, quality control, and all the like. Both would like assured profits for their trouble, and who am I to say they shouldn't have them? My own whims are no more legitimate than their whims.
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No.101057
>>101008
it does not break the nap
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No.101070
>>101013
Sony did the same to Square-Enix (look how long it took for an FF7 pc port) and Sega for their own console, yet there were still competitors to both.
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No.101079
>>101008
Paying a game developer to make a game exclusively for your platform isn't bribery, it's smart business. Microsoft and Sony pay game devs to make console exclusives all the time.
Bribery would be more fitting if a corporation makes a heavy donation to some politician's foundation and in return the politician make policy that favors said company exclusively.
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