I get wanting to support 4AGames. They're clearly a talented group of developers and they'll be fine. The reason I want the game to sell poorly is so no other company gets the idea to try this anti-consumer crap.

Either everyone will get a refund of they're going to be fighting some lawsuits. This was my most anticipated game this year and yet I have never felt more hostility towards a game launch. I'm not buying it and I hope the game doesn't sell at all.

No, Steam has not been doing this exact thing AT ALL. Valve does NOT pay 3rd party publishers for exclusive deals to only be on Steam.

Steam also do not have a monopoly by the very definition of the word. I can buy games on Amazon, in brick and mortar stores, greenmangaming, gog, the list goes on. You have other methods of purchasing most games. Even if they do require Steam to activate, you still have the option to buy the vast majority elsewhere. This is also not the case with the Epic Games Store. Everything is closed to their store. Buying exclusives and not allowing 3rd party keys to be sold is so anti-consumer it's ridiculous. I get taking shots at Steam is cool and it for sure could use some good competition. However, throwing cash at publishers to have their games exclusive to your own shitty store that's light-years behind the competition is anti-consumer to its very core. They also let the game sit on Steam, raking in the promotion and exposure being on the most popular stores gives your game only to pull it a measly 2 weeks from launch. Scummy. Epic has been scummy all around.

You're missing the point. As far as I am aware Steam does not actively pay devs to keep games exclusive to their platform. That just awful anti-consumer behavior on Epic's part. If devs want their games to only be on Steam, I fail to see how that's Steam's fault. You also skipped over the whole point about how the Epic Games Store is centuries behind Steam in pretty much everything. Steam reviews are worth more than some youtube reviews as it averages out a ton of reviews to give you a general consensus of what people think of the game. This cannot be replaced with something like metacritic because with Steam you have to actually own the game to review it making the value of those reviews much greater than any website fanboys can troll and vote down a game they've never played. Not including reviews or support forums is just a great way for developers to try to hide away problems with their games. It's pro developer, anti-consumer. It actually boggles my mind why some people are okay with this. More competition is always better, but paying for exclusivity on your inferior platform is just a punch in the face to the people who were looking forward to the game, especially doing it just 2 weeks before release.

What Epic is doing is much worse than Ubisoft with Uplay. While you need to run it to play some games, at least with Uplay you can still purchase the game on pretty much any platform or site. With the Epic Games Store everything is completely locked down to it. No more greenmangaming, no more Amazon, nothing but the Epic Games Store. It's a complete joke.

Because Epic payed them to do so. Epic's platform is 100% publisher/developer friendly and completely anti-consumer. No reviews, no forum, missing most of the features we have on Steam. Doesn't support Linux. The list goes on. Metro was my most anticipated game this year, but I will not be buying it on the Epic Games Store.

The argument is that the 20 billion is better spent on things that are actually problems in the U.S. Insane healthcare costs, public welfare, violent crime, infrastructure. The wall is completely not worth the cost since it'll be essentially ineffective.

Which is literally exactly what he said. They entered legally, but are now illegal immigrants. Hence the majority of current illegal immigrants entered then country legally. This isn't that hard to understand.

And to those saying this is separate issue, you're completely missing the point. It's absolutely insane to spend ~20 billion on a wall when it wouldn't affect the majority of our illegal immigrants. That's the main point. Nobody is saying people running across the border shouldn't be stopped, but it sure as hell isn't worth ~20 billion dollars to stop.

He literally shut down the government, risking the livelihood of hundreds of thousands on of people all for a border wall that has been shown as unpopular. He also constantly lies about most of what he talks about. He's so out there most of his cabinet has quit. That seems crazy enough to be removed from office.

The Epic Games Store was built to be anti consumer. No reviews, no support forums, awful refund policy. It's completely anti-consume. but what it is is, pro-developer. A smaller cut and no reviews is a great thing for developers. I don't see this move turning out well for either Epic or the developers that choose to be exclusive to it. It won't be insanely obvious with The Division 2 since Uplay still exists to buy the game on, but if another developer tries the same thing without their own platform, I don't see things ending very well for them.

Why should we pretend like your opinion of what is "top-tier" matters? What even is top-tier? What's the criteria?
Smash Bros. is just a really fun game to a lot of people, that's why it's getting praise. You not liking it doesn't change the general consensus that it's a great game.