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By using their service and giving them money, you're validating their shitty practices and propagating this garbage across multiple platforms when other companies see it's profitable.
If you want gaming to get better, stop giving bad companies your money and attention.
It’s a store not a platform
If walmart doesn’t have a game, you would check gamestop
Don’t try to hijack the platform exclusive argument
When you're required to use their "store" to play the games too, then it's a platform. And an isolated one, at that. Imagine you could only buy a game AND PLAY IT at Walmart.
Platform exclusivity is part of Epic Games' problem. Not the sole issue, but a big one.
The platform is the OS
And you aren’t forced to use their launcher, that’s a Valve thing
Exclusivity has been a thing since the advent of videogames, this isn't anything new. Epic is just a shitty company, so they're an easy target to criticize. They funded the development and published the game, it's their right to do with it as they please. They're losing money by not bringing it to Steam, so their loss, really. But it's not even close to the equivalent of console exclusives, as the barrier here is spending 5 minutes to just download their shitty launcher. It sucks, but this really isn't that big of a deal, in my opinion.