PlayStation's Soon-To-Be CEO Believes PC Players Will Wait for Playation Exclusives To Release On PC Because Steam Users Wait For EGS Exclusives To Arrive On Steam "Out Of Spite"

[Shagger]

Well, he is right, at least about the "Steam Spite" thing.  So who can blame him beliving people will wait for PS exclusives when people actually wait for PC games that are already on PC just because that store isn't Steam? Read more from PC Gamer.

 

This cult like loyalty some people have with Steam has long been a peeve of mine.  Fanboyisum in gaming is stupid, but having such loyalty to a store, a damn store, when it's just as easy to buy the same game with the same harware is mind boggling.  At least console fanboys are jusfying the choice they made on the purchase of that hardware, what is a "Steam Fanboy's" excuse?  Spending $500 to buy-in isn't the same thing as spending 5 minutes on registering an account.  I get that steam has a large playerbase, so wanting to play multiplayer games on Steam rather than EGS or GOG makes sense, but more and more games run servers with independent log-ins and/or are cross-platrom compatible.  And this is obviously irrelevant when it comes to single player games, but the same loyalty sill comes in.  I know for a fact that there are people who not accept free games on EGS and then buy said games on Steam, as the article said, "Out of Spite"

 

The worst part, some of the most important people at the helm of major players in the gaming industry have taken notice and are justifying thier decisions on the grounds of this lunacy.  It needs to stop.

 

Still, I am open to, actually begging for, somebody to explain this loyalty to Steam because even after using Steam for years it makes no sense to me.

Edited May 31, 2024 by Shagger