Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

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ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

That’s not why epic has to pay for exclusives. They have to pay to cover the income gap developers would face from eschewing the better store.
Publishers are free to skip using steam and pass along their savings, but they invariably don’t. They just pocket the difference.

That epic game store exists, takes a lower cut and gives away free stuff, and still struggles to be viable is an indicator that valve isn’t be anticompetitive.
It’s not illegal to have a better product, only to use your market position to keep other products from trying to compete.

It’s one thing to be generally against big companies, and another to be against one in favor of another, when the stakes are “which company keeps money”.

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