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I get that Steam is where everything and everyone is at. And that the user experience and functionality is best there BUT having another player to try an compete with Steam is a good thing, right?

If anyone can try, it's the Fortnite Bank.

So, why the hate?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hadn't heard about a game being made unplayable after they bought it, that's seriously shitty. What game was it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For unplayable, Rocket League had very good Linux and macos native builds. Epic required them to delete support for those operating systems as part of the acquisition of Psyonix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, I didn't think about that. That's super gross.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It was a while ago, I don't remember off the top of my head which specific game I'm remembering. Doing a brief search, it appears that this happened to Unreal Tournament and Rocket League, though it appears that the games still work for the people who bought it before the unlisting. I think the concern was losing functionality, especially for server-based or multiplayer games