Gaming Platform War Update: Epic Games Store Suspends Accounts...For Buying Too Many Games

Gaming Platform War Update: Epic Games Store Suspends Accounts...For Buying Too Many Games

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190521/09415442250/gaming-platform-war-update-epic-games-store-suspends-accountsfor-buying-too-many-games.shtml

As we've talked about before, it seems an era of gaming platform wars is upon us. While Valve's Steam platform mostly only had to contend with less-used storefronts like GOG and Origin, a recent front was opened up by the Epic Games Store, which has promised better cuts to publishers to get exclusive games and has attempted to wage a PR battle to make people mad at Steam. It's all quite involved, with opinions varying across the internet as to who the good and bad guys in this story are.

Less complicated is the point of having an Epic Games Store at all. The idea would be -- wait for it -- to sell games. This is something that might not be fully understood by Epic itself, it seems, given that the platform has been busily suspending accounts for the crime of buying too many games.