What makes the EGS store more closed then lets say the Blizzard store? 'Exclusive' doesn't make much sense to me as your PC can run both Steam, EGS and any other free stores. I don't mean this as a snarky remark. I honestly don't understand much of the rage.
Let's talk basic economics before delving into the why some people and developers might be against EGS.
The market, well any market exists on supply and demand , this competition of suppliers to demanders results in price advantages and indirectly informs and regulates what suppliers can or cannot do. For example when Xbox/playstation push their luck in terms of pricing or other customer based needs you'll see their competitors adapt to pick up lost customers(see the great gen 8 or war of 2013).Having multiple outlets for games allows customers to gravitate to the ones who offer the greatest customer experience.
Fast forward to 2019 , Epic circumvents customer demands buy procuring exclusive rights to games. Don't agree with how they treat their employees, too bad they own certain games, don't agree with their practices, too bad they are the only supplier .......don't agree with their pricing model, too bad they are the only supplier........oh look they just took that game off the market, too bad they are the only supplier......do you see where this is going.
And before you go, well these games were only on steam, that's down to developers not releasing on other storefronts not Steam strangle holding the market by buying selling rights. If developers actually cares about the split theyd actually start releasing on ith and GOG but no this is about who's got the biggest sack of money and who gives the CEO the biggest one. What a lot of people fail to realise is that even though
Epic is playing nice with a few Indies for now, they'll eventually just stop cause either the all will have run dry or the it would be easier to just attract larger titles as it's easier right now to just attract "popular" titles.
