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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a good point. Everyone harps on Epic’s exclusivity, but there are a huge amount of games that only exist on Steam. Most of these never go on other platforms, and many that do, do so only years later.

When put like this, it sounds a lot like Steam and Epic are similar. Of course the difference is that, as far as we know, Valve doesn’t pay for this exclusivity - except indirectly by visibility.