All of this makes me wonder: if PC gaming becomes overly fragmented between digital distibution platforms, would we see someone rekindling physical releases on PC? No DRM, no download times, just buy the DVD and install it. Maybe it's too late for even that, but hey, one can hope.

The other thing I've largely been taking notice of, the lack of mod support. Steam seems to be the only one with actual built in mod support. only 2 of Beth's games come with built in mod support, and no other client out there features modding support either.

Acti moved CoD to Battle.net, in turn it's become an always online digital coffee coaster (because it will once those servers go down), while costing nearly £60 (up to 3 times as expensive on PC as most games would go for). Beth has done this with F76 as well, so in turn, this fragmentation and style of "competition" hasn't given me any benefits at all, if anything it's made it far worse for me. 

I'm not really a fan of having to use more than up to 4 clients, and I already find 4 clients a cluttering mess. 

Also, another thing. People seem to forget that Tencent own a lot of Epic's shares, and so far Tencent do not have a client storefront in the West, so by default, Epic's new client could become Tencent's proxy in the West. I know how Tencent see Steam ads their enemy, and will do anything to Steal Steam's thunder (for their own gain, not the consumer's) 

At least it wil be good for devs. 88% of the revenue with even a bigger share if they use unreal engine 4 is nice.

I believe Fortnite will stay here for years to come. F2P games can remain lucrative and kickin for 10+ years. Look at League of Legends, 10 years old and still in the top 5 biggest PC games in yearly revenue. Riot Games doesn't even need to make a new game with the money they get from LoL, even though they now are developing a new project.

Dammit, that's true. Compared to Tencent, Steam is an innocent lamb, so I really dread the idea of Epic turning into Tencent's key to the western PC market.

If Tencent's going all in for this, though, they could put bot League of Legends and Fortnite in their service. That's huge, bigger than anything Steam has by far.

Oh God… not another one -.-
I already got:
Steam
Battle.net
Origin
Uplay
Social Club
Windows Store
all on my PC. -.-
Thanks to (whoever listens) that Windows Games Live died..

Physical games on PC are dead will never comeback. Plus devs get a bigger share of a game sold digitally than physically.

Eh. I don't know about that. I don't see anything that could threaten the industry in the large scale.

I know, I know. It just sucks.

Hmm, I had already forgotten that. Now I know what to think about this: I don't like this. Rainbow Six Siege almost got screwed, probably mostly because of China, and now we're going to have a distribution platform with a huge Chinese company behind it. I'm not expecting many real problems but if it has an effect, it will almost certainly be a bad one.

Another Storefront? Well maybe this might give Valve a kick up the ass and make Half Life 3, Portal 3 and Left 4 Dead 3.. Because right now with Windows Store growing and Battle.net gaining Activisions games, Steam is starting to look a little weak on the games front. Competitive prices are nice however that's not going to hold up long for Valve as others will start matching or offering better deals.

Fingers Cross this is a push for Steam to start becoming more attractive again. As for Epics Storefront, I hold no interests in it as of yet.

Maybe it might give MS a right heavy kick up the arse to completely sort out their storefront and get more PC only games going. 

Steam has a bigger library going than the MS store, so let's not kid ourselves into giving MS more pats across the back, for what little they do for PC gaming. Steam by far still has more features and built in modding for PC games, MS store does not.

Also Activision only has two games on B.net, which are both online and have a defined limited lifespan, L4D 1-2/Tf2/HL/Portal do not.

Also CoD went for more than full price on B.net, so no "competitive" pricing there at all, same for the MS store and Uplay/Origin. The only one actually being decently competitive is GoG.

Also"matching"?, yeah, when's that going to actually happen for once?.