LogFAQs > #927786669

If you dig past all the nonsensical bullshit like "china is stealing your identity" and "epic is evil and anti-consumer" you get this:

The PC gaming community has for a long time been accustomed to not having to worry about the idea of exclusivity like consoles have. A lot of people grew up with, as strange as it sounds if you're older, steam being the only gig in town. There have been occasional exceptions along the way, but they were usually for niche titles (GOG) or very small scale (GFWL). Epic is the first thing in a long time that has honestly created a real split in platforms.

Everyone's using steam atm and they have retained a surprisingly decent public image in an age where people are perpetually looking for a reason to fight and tear everyone apart, so EGS is the "other". And unfortunately, Steam has for a long time had a model of business that makes it really hard for smaller studios to actually make money on their platform, so those developers don't have much qualms about taking Epic' deal, which is quite lucrative but otherwise honestly isn't extraordinary in any medium at all except for the extremely specific example of PC video gaming.

That unfamiliarity and tribalism of a real honest to god new player entering into the situation is what's really driving the blowback. Everything else is tangential features people are digging up as justification that range from understandable (Lack of features on launch, games being advertised on steam first then pulled) to nonsensical (bogus spyware stuff, crying about devs hating their user base just because they want to actually turn a profit and not be starving artists)
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