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Real question: how? What does epic games do? Is it privacy stuff? I'm out of the loop. I just get free games and gave a disposable email.
Pretty much just epic paying devs money in order to give away their game, almost directly buying them market share for their launcher. They will probably stop doing it some day. Or maybe they won’t.
You mean... Giving devs money so they're guaranteed an income instead of relying solely on the success or failure of their game which can be fairly random in some cases? Or the part where they keep a share of the profit much smaller than Steam?
Even if you accept the premise of your argument, what percentage of games do you think is getting that deal? It's still sink or swim for the vast, vast majority of indie games in that case. I'm all for competition, I just don't like that specific business practice.