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Having healthy competition is a good thing and I've wished for a competitor to Steam for a long time until one day the monkey's paw curled and we got Epic Game Store. To sum it up:
But the main point is the first one. If they bothered making a good store they wouldn't need to make most of PC gamers angry by introducing exclusivity deals, but they can't be bothered to do that, so they go for hostile competition instead at the detriment of the customers.
When they buy publishers, they had them actively remove Linux support, such as Rocket League
Also chinese conglomerate tencent is the 2nd largest shareholder of epic (35%), after Tim Sweeney at 41%.
Not to diss you, or take away from your argument, it's quite a good one.
But I do think EGS has reviews now. They suck but I they have some sort of review system now.
I couldn't find reviews. What I did find was a 5 star based rating system which is not the same thing at all. With steam reviews the text is more relevant to me than if they did or did not recommend the game.
If you scroll below the stars, it has corporate reviews provided by opencritic. Which is what i confused with real reviews.
Honestly, the stars are better than ign and other craptastic critics.