More thought I put into this...it's wrong. I understand fighting for exclusives. It sells platforms. Epic will need exclusives to get traffic and if it benefits a developer in the process, more power to them.
It was the method Epic did this. Pulling it literally hours before it was supposed to launch on other platforms is the kind of thing that causes uncertainty and distrust amongst consumers. That's a bad thing. There were likely some PC gamers who bought Game Pass on sale because this was Play Anywhere. Now gamers are faced with the reality that something can be announced as coming to a store for a couple years, be announced for Game Pass for 6 months...and it can be pulled literally hours before launch. That's going to cause distrust in Microsoft or Steam's services...which from a competitive standpoint makes sense as you're weakening you competition. But this is the kind of shit that can lead to shrinking an industry rather than growing it. You don't fuck with consumers that way. Fuck with corporations and money-hat developers all you want...but don't fuck with consumers. This is the kind of shit that turns me off from considering Epic. Hope consumers teach them a lesson.
You think that now that it's removed from Windows Store though.