Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Gabe did nothing and won.." video.

  1. It is truly the abject failures of the other companies involved. Like the first reply said, Epic sold themselves out to TenCent and shat out a laughably meager competitor to Steam with the money provided. EA and Ubisoft were both so arrogant that they thought players would love to install all their launchers alongside Steam's. Blizzard actually had a dumb enough fanbase for that same strategy to work, for a while, but even they issue "timed exclusives" for their own distribution platform now before releasing on Steam. Mostly because they've pissed away their fans' loyalty to nothing. MS has a tendency to throw lots of money at projects that fall over in a few years because they aren't their flagship products, kinda like Google does. Games for Windows Live was no exception. Sony is... well, remarkably stupid. Really, I think it would be dishonest to suggest that any of Sony's current strategy was caused by anyone but themselves. They explicitly told all their original Japanese fans that they don't matter, gave Nintendo (of all brands) the entire market for any anime-styled game that touched on anything remotely sexual, took pride in telling everyone that they want to censor any game that releases on their platform, etc. Squeenix is similarly idiotic. They sold off their most valuable Western IPs, like Tomb Raider, for pennies on the dollar because some ancient Nips in suits were incredibly mad that Final Fantasy wasn't performing as well. Then said "uhh, don't worry guys, NFTs will fix it." The price they sold those IPs at still blows my mind to this day. You could write two separate whitepapers for how stupid Sony and Square Enix have been over the past several years.
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