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How is this competition when we have no choice of where to buy our games? Exclusiveness is NOT how competition works. Epic bullied their way to a monopoly to sell Metro Exodus.
If every game would release on EVERY storefront, now that would be competition. This is not it.
You seem to have no clue of what real competition is.
Actually, that one seems to be you. Exclusiveness is part of competition on the market for gaming. There is no market for 'individual games' - those are the products used to compete with between publishers. And the stores are just the resellers, the middle-men that fork these products over to customers.
Compare it to Apple. They have a closed ecosystem and a small range of authorized resellers that have to abide by a set of rules, even. But on the market for phones, they are still competing like any other company that makes phones. Its not unhealthy and its not prohibited, it is even one of the highest margin commercial businesses in the world. Perfectly legal, and perfectly healthy. If consumers don't want Apple, they can buy another phone. Same with Metro, if consumers don't want to buy Metro, buy another game. Now what you and others are REALLY doing is this: you're saying you don't like the reseller that is selling Metro, and proceed to choose not to buy the game. The only limitation here is that of your own imagination. There is not even exclusivity. Anyone can access Epic Store in the exact same way. There is only a publisher, that chooses just like Apple to limit its sales to specific stores.