They had over a decade to launch a competing service, they could have even developed their own console with that kind of lead time.
Worst of all the Epic game store was launched in 2018 which just proves it was still possible to successfully launch a competing service in recent times.
There's a lot of merch there now. I feel like they try to get some revenue out of that to offset the fewer people who are going to them for actual games. That's something you can't get on Steam. You can get it on amazon though, although I kinda doubt people go looking for merch on Amazon though. I get the feeling that merch is an impulse buy.
Exactly. How is that any different than GameStop?
Steam store was launched in what 2004?!?
Xbox had online game buying in 2007?
The App Store was what? 2008?
They had over a decade to launch a competing service, they could have even developed their own console with that kind of lead time.
Worst of all the Epic game store was launched in 2018 which just proves it was still possible to successfully launch a competing service in recent times.
Pathetic.
There's a lot of merch there now. I feel like they try to get some revenue out of that to offset the fewer people who are going to them for actual games. That's something you can't get on Steam. You can get it on amazon though, although I kinda doubt people go looking for merch on Amazon though. I get the feeling that merch is an impulse buy.
Netflix actually approached Blockbuster during their early days, long before their IPO.... the rest is history