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5 points

every game on their [sic] I can find on Steam

Oh yeah? Find these:

3 out of 10

A Knight’s Quest

Alan Wake Remastered

Alan Wake 2

Assassin’s Creed Mirage

Battle Breakers

Binary Smoke

Castle Storm 2

Core

Corruption 2029

Crime Boss: Rockay City

Dangerous Driving

Dauntless

Dead Island 2

Diabotical

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

Goat Simulator 3

Grit

Infinitesimals

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando

Kid A Mnesia Exhibition

Kingdom Hearts series

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

Ooblets

PC Building Simulator 2

ReadySet Heroes

Rocket League

RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures

Salt and Sacrifice

Saturnalia

The Settlers: New Allies

Shoulders of Giants

Sins of a Solar Empire II

Space Punks

Star Trek: Resurgence

Tchia

The Crew Motorfest

The Expanse: A Telltale Series

Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale

Touch Type Tale

Witchfire

The Wolf Among Us 2

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54 points

I don’t know about any of the others, but at least Rocket League and Fall Guys are great examples here.

Both games already existed and were extremely successful on Steam.

Both games got bought by Epic and we were told they were going to get continued support.

Both games were then REMOVED from Steam.

Both games then started suddenly having objectively worse monetization. Both communities grew a pretty negative opinion of the changes.

Both games are objectively less popular now, though at least some of this is just age/fads.

But both games are just objectively in a worse spot than they were before. All Epic did was make them objectively worse.

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This list is just another argument against epic… artificial exclusives. For a FUCKING LAUNCHER. Even fucking Playstation, EA and Ubisoft opened up.

Fuck Epic.

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Fucking Playstation is not better than Epic with handling exclusives lmfao come on now

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They are literally releasing their games on another platform that actually requires them to put money into the project again to develop a port. So yeah, even PS atm is better than Epic.

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19 points

They bought fall guys and removed the possibility of buying it on steam. And timed exclusives like borderlands 3.

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Battle Breakers

This is a bad example to put down, can’t find that on the epic store either.

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-is-turning-off-online-services-and-servers-for-some-older-games

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Okay, fair, there are some exclusives. But reading through these, wow, nothing of value is lost.

Most importantly because for the newest ones like AW2, they’re just on a 1 year Early Access release in a lot of ways. Every time someone I know bought a game there, I was grateful they did the paid (as in, they pay, not get paid) bug testing work for the poor devs. And then once it releases on other stores, you can buy a somewhat patched-up version, and usually for 25%-50% off.

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