I never said I hoped they'd flop, I couldn't give a crap about them so I really couldn't care less what they do. I'll definitely be mocking them if they do flop though, and any other devs that leave Steam too!

And people always have a choice. I won't ever buy AOE1 HD or Warcraft 3 reforged since they're not on Steam. That's my choice. If they were on Steam then I'd get them both, but they're not and there's certainly no shortage of other games to play, I don't need them so I'll simply choose never to buy them.

You are giving me zero options when you say what you said beforehand. It becomes a you go for it or it becomes "artificially forced", which then becomes a simple "go buy it", ergo, telling me what to do. I don't buy into that "if you want it so much you'd go for it" mentality, because that involves throwing away principles and standards. if you're up for that, go for it, be my guest, but I'm not, so it becomes a "you do this and like it" whenever that phrase is tossed my way. See, I don't take kindly to being told when to lower my standards, and I know in this instance, with what's currently going on, they aren't all the way to the Moon. I'm also not up for giving up consumer choice and protections either. 

Don't put words in my mouth pal.  I'll not back down on my stance...this is a self-imposed restriction. Plain and simple.  To deny it or try to spin it any other way is silly.  And therefore is absolutely nothing like the current console wars.

But I really don't give a crap what you buy or what you play.  If you see this as me trying to dictate where you buy your games, well, you might want to start actually listening to words instead of trying to fit some hidden meaning or agenda to what people say.

Is there confirmation that this figure didn't include Steam pre-orders?

Lacking of features is one major point such as controller configuration (Steam lets you choose between M/K, PS4 , Xbox One, Switch Pro and various other third party controllers - and allows you to re-map them as you fit).

Some clients do additional things (i.e. there's evidence of the Epic Client scanning for various items that no other client does, ie datamining information).

Also the fact that having all games under one library and being integrated into the infrastructure (steam cloud saves, achievements, time log, etc).

EA stopped yes but not Ubisoft - they sell Steam keys but still make you log into Uplay - so both Uplay and Steam features are used.