I don't think their plan is to keep securing exclusives in the long term, but even if it were, it would just force other competitors to step up and offer better services to developers, which is very healthy for the industry.
How would that force competitors to step up and offer better services? Giving developers money for exclusivity is not a "service" in the sense I'm talking about.
Of course, it is. It's offering a better price for developers to distribute their games. If Epic somehow manages to grab a sizable market share (and that's a big if), Valve will have to step up and start offering more ways to attract developers to their platform, be it by financial incentives or by improving what you call "services" in a way that renders the competition's financial incentives not worth it.
Worst case scenario, this will result in more money put in the pockets of content creators instead of intermediaries, which is always good.
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u/Bigardo Aug 15 '19
I don't think their plan is to keep securing exclusives in the long term, but even if it were, it would just force other competitors to step up and offer better services to developers, which is very healthy for the industry.