Nah, probably just a big survey.

This is pure speculation. You dont know the deals in detail. Me neither. But i can gurantee that both parties assessed the situation thouroughly.

Epic isnt just sending cheques with fixed sums. They offer devs something Valve doesnt: Incentive.

I blame Steam's 30%.

Them lowering their cut wouldn't stop this at all though.

I really want to be one of those guys, that loves to hold everyone accountable for thinking they know what's up, but don't when proven wrong.

I know the lowering cut wouldn't stop them, because Discord has the objectively superior cut, and no one is flocking to them and Discord isn't locking all sorts of games and devs behind their wall. 

Again, for all the folk saying "it's only down to the cut", I'd like to hold accountable for when Steam lowers the cut and Epic continues doing so.

He didn't specifically say out loud that he'd made a deal. Randy is really bad at hiding what he's wanting to do. He's been like this for years now. 

If you'd read his tweets from a few months ago, you'd see this. 

It's also rattling, as to how these people are also ignoring the fact that Discord holds the title of having the better cut for devs, but at the same time, GoG have had to drop their fair price policy. Valve are far from perfect, but they are making games, a store redesign and a headset+controllers. They are doing stuff and all Epic are doing is snatching up exclusives, timed at that, while being very, very slow with their storefront features, and we've yet to see worldwide "trickle down" prices for consumers (outside of the Metro deal, which was US based, not worldwide and no keys to be found anywhere else, same goes for Ubi's TD2).

It feels like Valve making a lower cut won't do anything. I guarantee you that the same uneducated folk will simply mutter "where's my HL3" next, followed by "why aren't the "crappy" games gone", Despite the fact that we already have tools to disable/ignore said "crappy games" (seriously, they've never heard of "one man's trash, is another man's treasure" before or something).

In fact, I want those same tools on the Switch eshop, because I'm getting fed up of having to manually sift through their store page. I'm actually having to look up the few games that look interested for the Switch on a website, rather than on the Switch itself, because their storefront doesn't contain the proper toolset for me to curate how I can view their storefront. People seem to throw this off as being "non important", but at the same time they will whine that said storefront is a mess and filled with "garbage" games, often citing the ened for curation, yet have already has it and it's called customer curation, with a hint of Valve trying to block the edgelord games (I say this, because the Rapeday dev was a complete edgelord, sending the wrong message at the worst time, instead of actually talking directly to Valve themselves, and even they couldn't catch onto the game until it was too late and the dev knew this and abused it).

I would absolutely like if Valve would lower their cut, but at the same time I am not wanting them to bleed for the sake of the devs, because I know that's not a sound business plan, but at the same time I'd like for them to offer devs a bit more assistance in getting them to make use of their own engine, the way Epic is clearly trying to rope everyone into using theirs (it's obvious Epic would love if everyone just used UE4, so I'd love Valve to counteract that with Source 2).

They are not small games. Even with a bigger percentage, the potential losses due to many customers not bothering with it plus people boycotting it are considerable, much bigger than smaller indie projects would suffer. Epic must have given them quite a green check to keep the exclusivity deal going.

Yes. It was proved and confirmed by Epic that they access your Steam data and upload it to Epic servers. All without the permission of the user or Valve. Valve is already looking into it. 

They will continue to do so until they are big enough to walk there own ground. Epic can make games and while there main competitor Steam doesnt or rarey make games themselves, you can argue there is very little exclusives on Steam recently. 

Launchers will improve and when EGS gets its major updates, its going to only get bigger. It also shows EGS isnt afraid to spend money. I am hoping this is a wake up call for the PC industry which will only benefit Steam users in the long run.

To be fair, Valve doesn't need to send any incentives, the Steam monopoly is incentive enough and it's the reason why the deal only lasts for 6 months. Valve basically made a deal without actually making a deal.