1. Tencent owns 40% of Epic games, making them a huge shareholder in the company. Tencent also happens to be the biggest video game company on the planet. In other words, I'm confident that we're perfectly safe giving our information to a launcher that feeds user info to the Chinese government.
2. It is developer and publisher friendly since it gives more of a cut to the devs (Epic's 12% vs Steam's 30% cut). Just ignore the fact that Valve said that it would lower its usual 30 percent take to 25 percent for any game's earnings beyond $10 million (including "game packages, DLC, in-game sales, and Community Marketplace game fees"). Or the fact that the platform fee reduces further to 20 percent for earnings that surpass $50 million. In other words, it would only be an 8% difference in profit (And Steam would outsell Epic anyway so it would end up as more profit for the devs and publishers). Just ignore all that.
3. Exclusivity is the same as competition, obviously. Letting Metro Exodus sell in multiple stores would be terrible since Epic Games is obviously the superior breed. It would only humiliate everyone else. Steam has been a reliable, well populated, and established distribution platform for too long. Don’t you want to split up that obnoxiously large game library into separate launchers? Just download Epic Games Launcher, and you can play a whole 20+ games! WOW! Plus its got like… 4 exclusives or something. AND F0RTN1T3!@#$
4. Epic Games launcher has amazing benefits to users. 80 million accounts were compromised due to a security “flaw” that allowed hackers to log into accounts without needing a password! This means you get FREE EXPOSURE ONLINE. Get ready to become rich and famous! If you don’t want the free exposure (But why?) just contact customer service. They will get back to you in a measly 5 months or so.
Conclusion:
I hope I shed some light on why Epic Games Launcher is a superior, feature-rich, and a totally-not-anti-consumer launcher.
