Why do consumers defend exclusivity for games when the only party that has any benefit from it is the company and not...

Why do consumers defend exclusivity for games when the only party that has any benefit from it is the company and not the consumer?
Why would you argue for less options for consumers? Even if you only own one platform, what disadvantage do you have when you can play any game on any platform?

Because they have been successfully been sold the lie that "loyalty" to these companies will pay off for them in the long term.

Are you sure? Because I have never heard any company say something to that effect.
Or is it a lie they tell to themselves?

I just think it's strange, no other medium suffers from this. You can play any dvd on any dvd player, for example. If movies from Sony Pictures could only be watched on Sony brand dvd/bd players, there would be a massive shitstorm (at least I hope so).

Because I like seeing pc retards butthurt

>no other medium suffers from this

Streaming services.

It's all business though. One company feels their brand is worth protecting and only developing for their own hardware. It's also a form of competition, which is healthy for them, even if it seems anti-consumer.

There is also safety involved. Why do many develop games for consoles/handhelds, but not for PCs? Usually because of things like piracy or even compatibility with OS, which is just like making a game exclusive for one console over another.

So, the only reason you like getting fucked over is because other people get fucked over?
Sounds pretty retarded.

I'm not being fucked over because I'm not an entitled manchild like you

People like you scare me.

What idorts with money that buy consoles and games he wants and doesn't limit himself to pc only because he'd rather beg for games?

He means idiots that willingly ruin it for everyone by supporting bad business practices.

Sorry youre poor and want everything on pc so you can pirate it

People like you who keep arguing against a strawman you yourself invented in order to make yourself seem superior.
Everything I posted so far is applicable to all platforms and I was talking on general terms, not only PC.
For some reason, you immediately tried to make it an argument of PC vs Consoles. Why, I don't know.

You really don't see the benefit in just buying just one platform to play all the games, instead of buying several platforms? Only because you want to laugh at "pc retards"?

This is why people like you scare me, there is no logic involved in your thought process, just petty childish rivalry against strawmen.

Because you're being the typical pc nigger that wants everything handed to him. Genuine entitlement.

Exclusives encourage competition and that is a good thing.

Without competition, the industry would become stagnant.

Think about PCs in the 90s/early 00s

See, another strawman. I primarily play on handhelds, by the way.

Then you should be in favor of every single 3ds exclusive coming to the vita and vice versa

Not him, but platform wars aside, it just sounds like general entitlement to believe that X game should be on all platforms because it's more 'consumer friendly'.

This. It will create even more stagnation in the industry. As someone who enjoys video games I like that there are different companies trying to do different things, else we'd just have mediocrity everywhere.

Yes, have I said anything to the opposing effect at any point? Do you actually understand my opening post? I would love only having to use one device to play all the games.

because they are FUCKING
RETARDS

The industry is already stagnating, even with competition.

Because the lines of competition are slowly fading into the void of 'everyone gets the same shit'. It's why I have a hard time defending purchasing consoles like the PS4 or Xbone, when a majority of their titles are multiplatform.

Might as well write off Xbox as a brand in the coming years, since they've announced all big titles would also be on Windows 10.

And I'd like to have enough money to never have to work another day in my life
Tough shit. Get over it.

I'm sorry, but why are you so aggressive? Is my question really that aggravating for you?

if you're selling a product wouldn'tyou want to differentiate from the crowd in order to get money?
Why make an expensive console that only plays multiplats and has no exclusives?
The reason why people like PC is because you get the moat out of these games by playing with the best performance and presentation with exclusive titles that are meant to be played with a mouse and keyboard. The benefit to a PC is that many home consoles are emulatable, but that's besides the point. Of course exclusives are a thing in order to deviate from thw competitionand make cash, sure it sucks half the time when a game like Bayo 2 is exclusive to WiiU, but what're gonna do?
You make it sound like these companies are coming together to purposely fuck you over when in reality that's just business.