Who cares. They were already available on PC regardless of where they could be purchased. This "OMGZ EPIC STORE BAD!!!!!!" stuff is stupid. Do all of you buy your groceries, music, movies, clothing, gadgets, etc, etc all at the same exact store every, single, time? All of your other shoping all at one place? No? Didn't think so.
That's such a stupid argument
Some people prefer scrolling through Tiktok instead of YouTube shorts. Some prefer Twitter over Threads. Some prefer Instagram over Facebook. Some prefer Signal over Whatsapp.
And some prefer to buy some stuff at Walmart over Target and just to take some french examples : Carrefour instead of Auchan, Fnac instead of But, Leclerc instead of Monoprix. Prices are different, the choice too, the overall « experience », and especially if you have benefits if you are a long term customer.
Steam is basically an ecosystem, it's even a social network in some way.
And yes, I'd rather buy my games all on Steam simply for the fact that not only it shows that on my profile I have it (which is silly, but still) but even more-so because I can then lend it to all my family instead of sharing an account.
The EGS only recently implemented achievements. There's also no way to review the games, there's just a basic opencritic score shown.
If Helldivers 2 was an exclusive to Epic, you think people would have been able to express their concerns over the last controversy around PSN ?
I'm not even the kind of guy who would be bad mouthing Epic for fun (well, just a tiny bit really, but that's because I basically grew up on Unreal Tournament). They've done good stuff. But their launcher is literally made to be « serviceable » which is not the case of Steam.
Steam is Valve's main product. Epic is building a store with a shit tons of games, just to be sure that Fortnite stays on top of it all because THAT'S the main product they're pushing. That's why indies can't have any success in there : it's not because people aren't willing to use another launcher, it's because there's 0 effort made to push games to their potential audience.
You are arguing in bad faith, Steam is NOT just a store. It's really disingenuous to imply otherwise.
I can meet people in Steam, through groups and interests. Visit forums based on the games I play and like, read reviews directly on the website, customize my page, directly stream & chat, even playing local games via streaming like Parsec does, but without any software. Not even talking about Steam Input that allows you to play with literally anything, or allow the use of gyros, with multiple community-made templates and control schemes. Probably none of that is ever going to be available on EGS.
