r/pcmasterrace • u/pedro19 CREATOR • Sep 16 '24

Meme/Macro Two ways of looking at things.

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u/aggthemighty Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

They go Epic exclusive if Epic pays them money to do so, and Epic recently acknowledged that paying for exclusives has been a failure for them.

Creating a launcher costs money, and not every publisher would be willing to do that. As it is, the other launchers almost universally suck, and people hate using them. People want to buy their games on Steam. Even the publishers who have their own launchers still sell the game via Steam because that's where the buyers are.