Outer Worlds skipping Steam for Epic Games Store

[Darashiva]

Chazore said:

Darashiva said:
To be fair, this is largely a situation that Valve has created themselves. Right now the deal that Epic offers to developers is just better than the one Valve has in place, so even if this makes things more difficult to customers it makes sense from a commercial stand point. Selling games on the Epic Store just gives the developer a larger cut of the profits, so of course many are going to take the deal.

Discord has the superior cut though, and yet no one who talks pro epic and anti valve cite this. Also, no one is giving GoG props for having to lose a fair price pro consumer policy, you know, thanks to Epic. 

I'm not saying that other platforms aren't doing things even better, but this is just a reality of the situation. Epic is likely just offering the overall best deal to the publishers/developers, not just with taking a smaller portion of the profits, but also likely by offering these publishers/developers a lot of money for these exclusivity deals. At the end of the day all video game companies are in this business to make money, and if it makes commercial sense to take Epic's deal, then they are going to do it.