I'm all for this. Game exclusivity prevents many from enjoying them.

Spider-Man 2 is one of my favorite games ever. So glad it was no PS exclusive, and that they finally knocked off the PS account shitfuckery. It's hard to find good news these days so I will hold on to whatever I can get.

In a world of garbage and capitalist-corporate exploitation of the masses, we celebrate these.

Well, for me GOG and its existence is one of the good news in gaming, so check that out if you didn't yet!

Is this sour grapes because they can't get exclusives?

It would be good news if there were any games on there I actually wanted to buy, or if they supported Proton. And please don't mention Heroic or Lutris because they barely work either. Steam is the only one that works 100% of the time.

No, exclusives suck. It’s hardware based gatekeeping. Everything is using basically the same hardware architecture now anyways. There’s no reason for it. They’re all PCs.

Por que no los dos

What a weird and aggressive comment. You must be John PlayStation.

Nobody can "get" exclusives. They don't exist anymore. There's first-party games - there's games the first party funded into existence - and everything runs on *whatever customers have.* Developers want to sell games... to people. Hardware is an obstacle. They don't want to care which color of deliberately incompatible generic computer you bought. Shipping five near-identical versions of the same damn game is a button they push in Unreal 5, and that's why they put up with Unreal 5.

Cool as long as I don't have to use GamePass.

"Barely" feels a little unfair. But the games that do require tweaking do tend to require doing a fair bit of research. Often rather daunting research.

> please don’t mention Heroic or Lutris because they barely work either Odd, been enjoying Silksong via Heoric (GOG) and it just works. Not sure what the 'barely works' part you are talking about is.

It's 50/50 for me

> Not sure what the 'barely works' part you are talking about is. The part where it barely works. Like maybe 50% of the time.

Do you have specific examples of games that didn't work for you?

I agree with this. I also agree that exclusives need to go, but it is _very_ interesting that team "We tried buying our way into exclusives and then made them shittier at every step" is now crying that "it's because people don't want exclusives anymore" Which, yeah, but also your exclusives you made absolute shite. Look what you did to my poor Halo. A near perfect gaming experience 15 years ago with one of the most epic sci-fi stories I've played, now to a boring bland corporate ripoff with absolutely no heart. Gears of war the same, a gritty action game based on the survival of humanity to... I don't even remember the last two installments. Them exiting exclusives isn't because they (rightfully) think we're done with exclusives, it's because they trashed their own IP.

I don't keep a log but off the top of my head, Deathloop and Cygni

I'm glad about this because I just game on Linux now, and the this attitude means they're less likely to sabotage things to specifically fail through Wine/Proton, but as a business, I imagine this only really works if they have good products that are clearly better than their competition, and they just aren't.