So, is there store going to be like Steam or more like Blizzard (with a smaller list of games)? If the second, I find it interesting one of the store's launch titles (Hades) is so similar in theme and playstyle to Diablo...

Great , more platform holder more competition and we get more cheaper price . Gamer win

Can't turn down free games, downloading the client. Doubt it'll get much use beyond the free games though.

Subnautica? Awesome! I was going to get it in the next Steam sale, now I took it off my Steam wishlist to hide it from Secret Santa .

They are really going for Gabe's jugular.

Is that how I managed to snag CoD for the low, low price of £60?. Only on Battle.net?.

Not buying into it until it fully supports the features Steam has, while adding more unique ones for itself.

EA gave away free games like Steam has done before, only EA has actively killed their "on the house" program and replaced it with their sub fee paid game pass style "Origin Vault" service, so no more free games on the house anymore.

If they are going to do this, they need to do it for years and years to come, not pulling an EA and save face by doing it for just 2 years and then dropping it when they've drummed up that Bethesda style goodwill.

Also no mobile, F2P or Early access trash either. 

I prefer Steam over EA Origin a lot, but that's a very unfair comparison IMHO.

EA gave a lot of their own good games away for free in these four years (March 2014 to July 2018 is a much longer period than two years), How many Valve games did Valve gave away for free on Steam? None? Almost none?

Valve gives other developers a platform to promote their newer games with freebies of their older games and seems to expect such freebies now and then... but they aren't giving away their own games and probably aren't paying developers for freebies either.

Okay, so... I see Journey, in the epic games store... It even says Playstation, 2012-2019, and stuff. PS exclusives coming to PC? I'll rebuy it.

I'm interested to see where Epic takes this but right now it looks incredibly bare bones compared to what Steam offers in all sorts of ways. As others have said, until Epic lays out their own versions of Steam's better features I'm probably not going to look much in their direction. If they can offer me a variety of great games that Steam can't, have just as good or better deals, keep the shovelware garbage out, make it much easier for me to browse their games, on top of offering me said features... then I'll hop over.