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    1. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 25 Jun 2019
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      Here’s a tweet storm on the topic of “Why Exclusives”?https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1143669644877815810 …

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      Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic
      Replying to @AkiraJkr1 @mastercoms and 3 others
      This question gets to the core of Epic’s strategy for competing with dominant storefronts. We believe exclusives are the only strategy that will change the 70/30 status quo at a large enough scale to permanently affect the whole game industry.
      258 replies 45 retweets 209 likes
    2. Raven67854‏ @Raven67854 25 Jun 2019
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      So your answer to breaking the 70/30 is to just buy games out, lower competition by locking them to you. While having a subpar store that doesn't come anywhere near close to Steams features? Why not just let games go on both EGS and Steam? (1/2)

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    3. Raven67854‏ @Raven67854 25 Jun 2019
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      Or are you just afraid that nobody would want to purchase from your store? I mean years ago you complained about Microsoft doing this very same thing and now here you are doing it. Oh well is what it is I guess.. (2/2)

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      Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 25 Jun 2019
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      We believe that there’s no set of features which Epic, or any other store, could add that would be so revolutionary as to lead to a large-scale move of gamers from a dominant storefront to a new one.

      5:40 PM - 25 Jun 2019
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        2. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 25 Jun 2019
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @Raven67854

          We believe the lock-in effect of having a large library of games on a dominant storefront is more powerful than features, and hence a dominant store can only be challenged through exclusives. Here’s an article where Bill Gates explores a similar topic:https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/24/18715202/microsoft-bill-gates-android-biggest-mistake-interview …

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        3. Raven67854‏ @Raven67854 25 Jun 2019
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          Ah I see so instead of Steam being the dominant store. You want to be the dominant store? While I agree that makes perfect sense as a good business decision. That's just trading one devil for another. Seems rather pointless. I have 1,793 games on Steam. Why would I move to EGS?

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        1. CC‏ @neo_cream 26 Jun 2019
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          So where’s the shopping cart? I’ll love to buy lots of games from your Launcher at once but I’m afraid I’ll get suspended for “fraudulent purchases”. And where’s the customer reviews? That’s one thing I like about Steam. True, it’s flawed but it’s getting better.

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        1. Iskandar‏ @Isytwit 26 Jun 2019
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          Matching steam features day one, mass marketing, epic exclusive cosmetic, lower price than steam, and a humble tweet to gamers to support devs is a starter. But throwing money to devs is more fun i agree.

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        1. MrAngryBates‏ @MrAngryBates 26 Jun 2019
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          That's the whole point: you want to install a new dominant storefront. And customers are forced to follow you like sheep with zero benefit for themselves. Sounds convincing.

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        1. Recoil‏ @Recoil00 26 Jun 2019
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          That's a sorry mindset. If others thought like that we'd all still be using be using internet explorer and Yahoo.

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        1. Jonathan Marlow‏ @JonRising209 26 Jun 2019
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          Yeah Tim, it's as if trying to get ahead of Steam with extreme aggression after all these years of having them be pretty much the face of PC gaming in spite of their flaws and other existing storefronts is a..... "BAD IDEA" or something.

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        1. 假装在墙内‏ @12450108Bira 26 Jun 2019
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          Cart is hard

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