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I honestly don't know what you are; nor do I care to speculate at this point. All I know is that I disagree with you, and find your views on this particular issue to be utterly reprehensible, as well as anathema to my own values. You also don't seem to be open to changing those views any time...

Yes? It's a question of practicality; it takes effort to make a game work on multiple console. I never said having two storefronts is a bad thing; in fact, I believe more competition is always a good thing. The problem is that exclusivity is not a competitive tactic; it's an anti-competitive...

Which is exactly why they are ludicrous; because you apparently see absolutely no issue with lying to people, and cheating them out of their money. Then you sir, are a scoundrel.

At this point, I don't know what would count as evidence of exploitation, by your ludicrous standards.

It still requires more effort on their part to port it, than it would to not do so. Whereas on the computer, it actually takes effort to make something exclusive to a particular video game digital distribution service platform. Actually both Steam and Epic do have downsides; it's called DRM...

Consoles are different; because hardware differences mean that a game has to be designed for each console, whereas since Steam and Epic are both on the computer, any exclusivity is completely arbitrary. No; because exclusive brands are not equivalent to exclusive products. Let's say Walmart has...

It doesn't; each of those two storefronts having their own exclusive content that you cannot get anywhere else though does. It's the exclusivity deals that are the problem, not the Epic Games Store in and of itself.

I don't. There's just too many similarities between the growing exclusivity practices of online platforms, and the old practice of movie studios owning their own theaters, and holding exclusivity rights on which theaters would show their films. I would not be surprised if we eventually see a...

That's where we disagree; so I suppose we cannot find common ground on this issue after all. Ah well; at least I tried.

Can you? How about someone else? A con doesn't stop being a con when it fails to catch you; anymore than bears stop being dangerous, just because a guy with an AK-47 killed one. Even with the information being out there, how are people who are not as keyed into this industry like you and I are...

Just one example are the ones that deliberately gimp the game, making it as tedious as possible, in order to encourage players to pay more to avoid the tedium; but then pretend that they're only offering players a "choice", and that the design of the game is in no way built to encourage them to...

Personally I'd love to see the practice banned; but I understand why doing so might be a bad idea in many ways. That said, I believe we could still find some common ground, in at least admitting that something could still be done about the information disparity between businesses and their...