Honestly, if it was a union of indie developers making this argument, it would hold a lot more weight than Tim Fucking Sweeney making it. “Valve’s cut is too big, smaller developers get screwed” isn’t an invalid argument in and of itself; if Epic put all the money they’re pouring into exclusivity agreements with developers and shit into trying to make EGS have some level of feature parity (for end users) with Steam, they might have more success. As it stands, they’re just trying to strong-arm players into using their (much shittier) platform and it’s turned a lot of folks, me included, vehemently against giving them the slightest chance.
I don’t have an epic account, never will. They’re not operating in good faith; they’re pushing the “launcher exclusive” release model, which only hurts consumers. If they match Steam’s features and drop exclusivity deals and prove it’s not a short-term trick, I’d consider buying from them.
Honestly, if it was a union of indie developers making this argument, it would hold a lot more weight than Tim Fucking Sweeney making it. “Valve’s cut is too big, smaller developers get screwed” isn’t an invalid argument in and of itself; if Epic put all the money they’re pouring into exclusivity agreements with developers and shit into trying to make EGS have some level of feature parity (for end users) with Steam, they might have more success. As it stands, they’re just trying to strong-arm players into using their (much shittier) platform and it’s turned a lot of folks, me included, vehemently against giving them the slightest chance.
Said union might be about to happen, if we’re lucky:
https://gameworldobserver.com/2024/03/13/triple-i-initiative-indie-devs-poncle-mega-crit-red-hook
I don’t have an epic account, never will. They’re not operating in good faith; they’re pushing the “launcher exclusive” release model, which only hurts consumers. If they match Steam’s features and drop exclusivity deals and prove it’s not a short-term trick, I’d consider buying from them.