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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
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[–] cottonmon@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Epic funding games development was only a recent thing. For the most part, they were buying exclusivity for games that were already set to be released or were already in active development. The other reason why this was hated was because they bought exclusivity for games that were crowd-funded back when the store was newly opened.