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There's considerably more than that that makes me weary of it just as a platform, let alone its practices that lead me to dismissing its usage on principle. To narrow it down to this is disingenuous fanboyism of the platform.
"I don't hate Epic Games Store" = fanboyism. Okay.
I'm not even a fanboy of it. Everyone screams and shouts about how it's the worst thing ever, how it's killing games (hahahahahaahah), how it shot their dog and pissed on its corpse but no one ever has any reason why other than "lol no shopping cart, lol a moderately popular former youtube lets player bought games and had his account tagged, tencent is the worst now let me go play League of Legends while listening to Spotify hop in our Discord server to coordinate, also Fortnite sucks". The only other thing they say is it's 'anticonsumer' and 'unfair' because of shit like Metro Exodus which prompted review bombs and the gamer hate machine to do its thing and make themselves look like shithogs when it isn't even the first example of a PC game forgoing Steam to use its own, different program for purchasing and launching. Not to mention Epic admitted the mistake, but it's also not solely their doing, Deep Silver had its share of the 'blame', but considering the incentives for Deep Silver in terms of revenue are you going to blame them for following the path that would get them more revenue? Because if we're gonna start shitting on capitalism I'm all for it.
Is EGS as 'feature rich' as Steam? No. Is Epic offering incentives for publishers for timed exclusivity? Yes, but what's the problem there? That it's a company throwing money around while Good Guy Gabe's crew don't? Epic is using 'timed exclusives' to brand build, they aren't holding devs at gunpoint and forcing them to do so at the expense of gamers and Steam. There's incentive for publishers to sign an exclusivity deal but it's not like Tim Sweeney is demanding all games that use Unreal to release on EGS only. EGS isn't a great storefront but it's functional. The horror stories about unsecured accounts or hacking or terrible customer service (let's not act like Steam is a shining example of customer service done right) are often anecdotal and hyperbolic. Does it happen? Maybe to some people, sure, but I've been locked out of my Steam account because I signed in on a different computer and they never sent a code to my email and I was refused a refund because a game I purchased on Steam had a bullshit program that ran in the background and didn't shut down properly which ran me over the two hour limit. I have other user unfriendly experiences with it. I still use Steam.
Now I'm asking you, and specifically you but anyone feel free to answer as well, why you're so against the platform? Obviously it's not a lack of a shopping cart. What's wrong with its practices other than the fact that it's capitalism doing its thing to the PC market that its been doing to the consoles for years? What makes it anti-consumer? The fact that you might have to wait a bit longer to play it on a *preferred* platform? What makes it so egregiously awful?
