>be tim sweeney
>unreal, fortnite, great success
>launch epic games store, more choice for developers and users, lower cuts, received fairly well
>make deals with studios to release some games exclusively on epic for a year, not much for choice lol
>launcher is completely terrible, runs worse than ue5, literal garbage, browser within a browser type shit, lacks features, is literally a pain to use
>offer games for free, people redeem them, never play them or buy them on steam
>user base grows 173% in five years, revenue grows by 1.6%
>epic exclusive games tank
>turns out gamers like having all their games in one place, or at the very least have a decent launcher
shiittt steam must be a monopoly lemme bitch and cry on the internet like the small envious man i am
Is this the "fair competition" praised by recent articles?
If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance.