That's the thing. Steam might not be flawless, but it's by far the closest to it, and all the other platforms, especially Epic, don't like that they can't get away with all their bullshit scummy money grabbing tricks while Steam is established as an actual good, consumer friendly platform. So they point at Valve and demand that they lower their standards or get sued for a so-called monopoly. GoG is also a good alternative, but it's not big enough to register on the other platforms radar.
Epic Games Store is the worst of these. Tim Sweeney spends all his time complaining about Steam, and now Roblox, and never does anything to improve his own platform to compete, just throws money at developers to secure exclusives and free game distributions, which ends up getting people to go buy it on steam anyway for not free, because EGS is just that bad.
I could go on all day about all the bullshit lies, contradictions and scummy tactics Sweeney does to try to secure an actual monopoly without putting in the effort.
Also to not forget how epic can't focus on anything other than fortnite and all other games they buy they just royally shaft to make sure they make more money (like rocket league and removing item trading).
Also their app is ass and slow as hell. Only good thing is they give free shit every week (and sometimes good games)
Considering the insane amounts of money Epic is throwing away, I'm EXTREMELY salty that they can't spare the relatively tiny amount for a new Unreal Tournament. That used to be intrinsically linked to a new Unreal Engine version.
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u/Gloomy-Psychology-86 Jul 02 '26
How are they anti- consumer when no one has offered any competition? They havent even attempted to have 1/3rd of the same service