So far, you've managed to develop the game in large part thanks to those who trusted you with their money and either backed your Fig campaign or pre-ordered the game from your site. Your fans have trusted you with their money based on the promises you made them, which explicitly include getting a GOG or Steam key. Without these people, you wouldn't have a game to sell to Epic in the first place. I'm aware that you no longer need these people, who were arguably your most loyal and devoted fans, because Epic is now paying your bills. But why are you choosing to show your contempt for the very people who put you on the map by denying them the deal they actually paid you for?
I can understand your decision to make the game exclusive to the Epic Game Store. I may not like it, I may think that exclusivity of any kind is inherently anti-consumer, but that's not my point. It's your right to sell your game however you see fit and if you value the money to expand your business over the fans that made your business possible in the first place, that's your choice to make. What I don't get is why you couldn't at least offer a Steam or GOG key to those who already funded your project, which was until very recently (and long after you must have started working on this Epic deal) explicitly advertised as being distributed through both GOG and Steam. If Metro could make it work for those who pre-ordered the game, why not Phoenix Point?
Simply put: Why are you refusing to give your fans what they paid for? And no, I don't consider giving us what we bought a year later to be an acceptable alternative.
