PC-marknaden har varit både stekhet och ostrukturerad sedan Epic valde att satsa på en egen onlinebutik och verkligen utmana Steam som tidigare i stort sett haft monopol på distributionen av digitala spel till formatet. Framför allt är det Epics stenhårda strategi att satsa på exklusiviteter som varit föremål för heta diskussioner och många menar att det är negativt.
Men frågar man utgivaren Devolver Digital, så är det inga problem med exklusiviteter till varken Steam eller Epic Games Store. I en intervju hos Gamespot säger nämligen studions grundare Graeme Struthers såhär om saken:
"The rise about developers and publishers going to Epic and exclusivity, it doesn't really hold up. I play games on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch, and Devolver-we've done console exclusives with Sony, with Microsoft-I think it's good, but I think we have to respect Steam for what they've done. Without them, none of this would have been a conversation in the first place.
Competition is going to come along at some point. Epic have taken a view that their way of bringing content to their platform is far more generous revenue share and obviously they've been pushing exclusives-that's great. And it's giving developers and publishers a choice. You can't compare the two things however as like for like. Steam has invested I don't know how many hundreds of millions of dollars in their platform; Epic have yet to do that. I'm not saying they won't, and hopefully they will. In terms of the features and in terms of the toolsets for developers, there's a ways to go. But competition is good."
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