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Originally Posted by Inferno
Yes, there's people out there who refuse to buy anything not on Steam but most don't care about having to use multiple launchers even if they prefer to have everything on Steam. If they can get a game cheaper on another client they'll take it.
If Epic would have decided to just make their games exclusive and competed with Valve by offering better deals you would not see the backlash they get. It's limiting people's options on what client they can buy third party games from that pisses them off.
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I buy PC games all over the place. Steam, Origin, uplay, GOG, Bethesda, Battlenet and third party sites like Humble, GMG, Fanatical etc. Epic is removing choice from PC users and on top of that they have a #### launcher that lacks basic features expected in 2019. I don't want to hear, but Valve didn't have X feature when it launched Steam in 2003. It isn't 2003, it's 2019 and I expect a certain level of functionality.
If Epic came in and competed on price and features I'd have no issue buying games on their platform. They didn't, they took a shortcut and handcuffed people by buying exclusivity. I am not using some half-baked launcher and I'll happily wait for these exclusive games to make their way to other storefronts. In fact, Epic saved me a bunch of money since I can play some of these games for free/cheap via Game Pass.