PC-markedet har været i kaos i noget tid efterhånden efter Epic valgte at udfordre Steam som tidligere stort set har haft monopol på distributionen af digitale spil på PC-platformen. Dog er det Epics strategi at sikre eksklusiver til deres platform der har skabt debat. Helliger målet midlet, eller gør det ikke?
Spørger man den mindre udgiver Devolver Digital, så er der dog absolut ikke noget i vejen med eksklusiver på hverken Steam eller Epic Games Store. I et interview med GameSpot fortæller Devolver-stifter Graeme Struthers, at der ikke er noget i vejen med at lade et spil blive eksklusivt tilgængeligt på den ene distributionsplatform, eller den anden.
"The rise about developers and publishers going to Epic and exclusivity, it doesn't really hold up. I play games on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch, and Devolver-we've done console exclusives with Sony, with Microsoft-I think it's good, but I think we have to respect Steam for what they've done. Without them, none of this would have been a conversation in the first place."
"Competition is going to come along at some point. Epic have taken a view that their way of bringing content to their platform is far more generous revenue share and obviously they've been pushing exclusives-that's great. And it's giving developers and publishers a choice. You can't compare the two things however as like for like. Steam has invested I don't know how many hundreds of millions of dollars in their platform; Epic have yet to do that. I'm not saying they won't, and hopefully they will. In terms of the features and in terms of the toolsets for developers, there's a ways to go. But competition is good."
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