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Advertising better cuts to publishers doesn't mean much when the price is the same across platforms. If epic was consistently 10% cheaper than steam it would get better traction.
They do often have better sales, but you have to launch the store to know and personally I would rather pay the extra $1 to buy on Steam...
Steam also has a lot of other stores selling their games though. Unless epic is giving it away for free, I'm probably going to get a better deal through a fanatical bundle or someone else than I would on epic.
This is true, here in Brazil we have an official key seller called Nuuvem that has prices so good TikTok banned their ads thinking it was a scam, since they often have small discounts even on new games.
Just have to be careful because sometimes the key is for Uplay instead of steam.
They still have to sell for what the publisher/devs want to sell the game for, a bigger share goes to them if it's the same price as it is on Steam.
Which I as a buyer don't care about. That's the whole point of the parent.
Just saying that it's not Epic's fault
They can't sell the games cheaper than steam as the steam's conditions doesn't let devs sell games on steam if the game is available for cheaper somewhere else.
This is only true for steam keys. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
That doesn't apply to exclusive games which also don't have lower prices.
How could it apply to exclusive games if they don't exist in steam in the first place
Industry standard prices exist. If an exclusive matches them you aren't getting a discount.