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“When it was announced, some people were like ‘Oh, that’s weird,’” he said. “And some people were pissed off. But most of the community was like ‘So?’ They were more like ‘When is it coming out?’ There is a barrier to entry on PC, and it’s your specs. It’s not like every store is like ‘We’re a store with exclusives. Also, all of our games only run on Nvidia Titan graphics cards.’ For the most part, people just don’t care. It might be a little inconvenient, but I honestly feel like people who were not going to buy our game weren’t going to buy it either way.”
Refenes said he feels a little bad for what he perceives as a small but vocal subset of potential players who’ve spent an inordinate amount of time “screaming into the void” about the Epic Games Store. “I was young once too,” he said. “I remember feeling those feelings, and I did not have an outlet. But I feel like if I had the internet, I would’ve screamed at Nintendo for not having Sonic. I feel like eventually all of these people will kind of go ‘You know what? That wasn’t worth it. That was a waste.’ That’s just part of aging and maturing.”
“If Epic comes to you and says, ‘We’re going to give you an exclusivity deal where you’re going to be OK no matter what’—to not take something like that is a mistake,” he said. “It is a complete mistake. Your community is not the people who are screaming negatively. Your community is the people who are playing and enjoying your game. And I really doubt the people that’ll take the time and energy to scream at you are people who are going to enjoy it. I don’t believe that for a second.”