They offer better deals to developers for limited time exclusivity. That’s such a non issue: benefits indie studios, and makes the PC gaming fields a little bit more competitive.
(console exclusives, are of course this but much worse, but at least there's some decent amount of effort involved in a port which means it's not just exclusivity deals that make a game only available on one console, as opposed to an almost entirely artificial limitation)
Why would I choose Epic and loose
- Linux support - social features - the workshop - (mostly) having a single launcher
They also pulled a few games off Steam just before launch after they'd already been advertised there.
> They also pulled a few games off Steam just before launch after they'd already been advertised there.
They offered a better deal to developers for a limited-time exclusivity. It’s not like epic is pulling things out from steam, publishers and developers decided to go with the exclusivity offer.