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Very yes. I like Lemmy but there's a lot of "corporation bad giv updoot" here.
There's so few instances of corporations doing actually good things so opinions tend to skew negative. Epic hasn't been thought of fondly since they started doing those exclusivity deals to try and bring people to their platform rather than making their platform a worthy competitor to Steam.
That’s because corporation is bad, giv updoot.
It's very rare that those who hate Epic also hate Valve though, so it's not about standing against a corporation. People just defend what they are used to and Epic disrupts that.
I'll be the first to say that I only begrudgingly accept Steam exists. However, I avoid using it and vastly prefer GOG due to the DRM-free nature of their store and the offline installers.
Just because the hate on Epic is vocal does not mean that everyone likes the Steam status quo.
Nor does it mean that the hate towards Epic doesn't have any basis. They did a lot of shit that caused them to have a bad reputation.
GOG has 0.5 to 2% of the market share, so I see no contradiction in my point on the scenario being rare.
You're presuming the contributors to Lemmy are just the same in their choices of gaming as the broader market.
It doesn't take that much reading of posts in Lemmy to conclude that it's heavilly biased towards adults, techies and lefties.
In Statistics you can only make presumptions about a subset of subjects from statistical distribution data from the whole universe of subjects if the subset has been randomly selected, which this one most definitelly hasn't - if only because of the "Reddit migration" Lemmy is filled with people with a certain kind of mindset (the ones for whom the actions of the Reddit CEO were displeasing enough to make them want to move and who actually had the will to do so) which isn't at all the average person's behaviour (the "average" just stayed there) plus even the Reddit population was already not representative of gamers generally (older in general).
The general market share of GOG might give you a hint that here too it's likely going to have fewer customers than something like Steam, but judging by comments I've read here it's probably more than 2%, at least amongst commenters (no idea about lurkers).