It's not really a secret that Galyonkin was a huge Ubisoft fanboy long before he started to work in game development, he always defended them in his blog no matter what, he has very notorious posts about how Ubisoft did nothing wrong with broken DRM they implemented in their late 00's-early 10's games. Seriously, as someone who followed his career since days he was an editor in chief of a local gaming magazine, all those weird decisions and deals that happened with EGS so far are entirely based on his own preferences, things he likes and what he thinks is right.
For example, he praised studio lead of Metro games creators several times and always followed S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro development, he even tried to spread a dumb rumor about Bethesda buying S.T.A.L.K.E.R. franchise when the sequel was canceled in 2013 - and 5 years later Epic, US-based company which was never a big market for Metro and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, suddenly spending crazy money on Metro Exodus exclusivity. After launching SteamSpy he started to think he is a best friend of indie developers now, and when Valve borked SteamSpy with GDPR changes, he cried in his blog about how this was a planned attack against him - and literally a few months later EGS launched and they started to "help" indies by giving them loads of cash for exclusivity. I've mentioned his rooting for Ubisoft above, it's really not about Epic in this case, it's just him wanting Ubisoft to succeed as much as possible and in his eyes, Ubisoft getting all profits and not giving 30% cut to anyone else is a success.
I could have provided even more examples of his obvious bias in this whole situation, but recently he took down his blog and most of the news and articles about him are in russian, so it's hard to track down everything. My only question about this mess is why the hell Sweeney allowing him to do all this, I mean sure, Galyonkin has a wide experience in game development, but it doesn't explain how he got almost unlimited access to Epic's money warchest. I can only see it as Sweeney being slightly delusional and having "savior of the gaming industry" complex as well (and he basically proved this with some of his responses and tweets), and that's why they got along with each other so quickly. So, my advice to everyone is to not waste your time trying to see any valid reasons in what's going on with EGS right now - because in reality there are no such reasons, only excuses for shareholders while they keep feeding their huge ego.
