Please, your post history speaks for you.
I mean, it's always the same pattern. :)
Yeah, you're not for any one corporation having a monopoly, competition is good especially when it's about moneyhatting stuff. We know all of that already. You're fine with it because you're not impacted by that. You don't care about one storefront locking games behind their shitty launcher nor you don't care about games on one storefront which means no price competition, because you were never about using any of these.
"A necessary evil". For what ? A necessary evil to push a bad storefront ? Why should we push a bad storefront ? Why should we push a bad publisher that is Epic Games or Tencent ? You don't even make sense when you say that it's good that a worse competitor gains marketshare because it's no good if there's only one big ecosystem, despite that benefiting us more than the opposite.
I haven't a clue what you're referring to but please do elaborate.
I'm as impacted as just about anyone by more storefronts. I regularly purchase games across steam, Origin, uPlay, GOG, Humble, etc.
Some more than others and that's the point. I got to wherever I will have the best deal and the storefronts I have most confidence in.
I haven't bought anything from Epic Store yet, I might, but that depends entirely on what kind of deals they have on.
Epic, as much as any other storefront, has to justify its existence. If they're no good, they can adapt or die; and if they that'll be that.
Your fixation with the particular storefront is entirely missing the point.
