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on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

the most baffling part is that they had a good thing. Giving out free games was a great way to draw people to your store. But then they just had to be just the biggest most enormous asshole about buying exclusive rights to random indie games, while not spending a dime improving their store

Like how did it take them multiple years to add such basic features like a shopping cart or a customer review system (which still sucks btw) when they're making billions of dollars a year from fortnite and unreal? It just makes zero sense

I think the exclusive backlash wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't so aggressive with it. When they started sniping kickstarted games and games that were like two weeks away from coming out is when I think people got really pissed

yeah exactly. If they just helped fund a bunch of indies then I think people would love them for it. But they usually waited until an indie game was already highly anticipated and about to come out before throwing money at them to delay their steam launch by 6 months to a year

yeah that's the main issue, it felt like they were wasting money buying indie games instead of spending it actually making the store good There were also multiple games that were promised to have a day 1 steam launch that went back on their promise because of the epic buyouts which also stung