If nobody minds my two cents. 

the Epic Games store lacks a good deal of all of the features I would like in a digital marketplace and, most importantly, does not have enough goodwill with me for me to make the effort of buying anything there.

There is also the small but important factor that upwards of 85% of the digital games I own for PC is on steam so why should I bother having yet another platform to store my credit card on? to store my data on?

Most of these free games I have seen so far were of little interest to me so that is not much of a selling point for me and several of these games that had the exclusivity deal, I was very interested in, but not interested in enough to buy it on that store. With that in mind, it seems less of simply them trying to compete with steam and more like they are trying to buy me into using their store. If I had a more positive bias towards them, I probably would not think that, but since they have no goodwill built up with me I tend to think more neutral or negative. That is the difference, Steam has built a lot of goodwill with the community to partially make up for its faults and problems whereas Epic Games has none or very little. Steam had to earn a lot of that goodwill, so does Epic if they want to compete. Right now, I do not think they are doing it the right way.

and lastly, I use Origin as well and have ~10% of my games there so I guess I respect EA more than Epic Games if that means anything.