[gradientsrneat]

I'm pretty sure Epic Games' "open platform" push has nothing to do with FOSS or antitrust and everything to do with money.

Tim Sweeney's tweet comparing computer users moving from Windows to Linux to "moving to Canada" comes to mind.

Also, a major way that the Epic Games store was funded was via double-digit stock investment from Tencent, one of the largest gaming monopolies and also tech monopolies. Imagine if Facebook, Paypal, Disney, and Microsoft's gaming division merged into one company, and you start to describe Tencent.

[BlueTemplar]

Of course it doesn't, despite all the talk, Sweeney happily kept having his games published by Microsoft and Epic Games store released without Linux support.

[deafpolygon]

Tencent is using Epic Games to drive a wedge in the US-based tech companies and raise anti-trust concerns with them.

[cma]

They are legitimate concerns. The 30% fees on the gross amount to more than half of the profits going to platform holders even after subtracting their payment processing and bandwidth expenses. And then they charge you for marketing within the store on top of those fees, driving it way above 50% of net profits on titles that want to be seen (organic visibility based is intentionally undermined by the in-store ads system).