[croon]

You're not making the counter-argument you think.

GGGP:

> I think the big difference between is how Epic treats its customers and how Valve treats its customers. Epic could've gone the GOG Galaxy route ("use it, or not, your choice"), but they decided to force people into their watered down launcher before it was ready. Even Xbox is being more open lately.

> You can't just match your competition, you have to exceed it in some special way before people will switch.

GGP:

> how are they forcing anyone?

I answered that question. That Steam is also doing it is whataboutism, but also entirely besides the point. Steam however is a much more full-featured client, which also factored into GGGP's argument.

But a more pointed answer to GGP would've been that Epic has paid external developers for (timed) exclusives.