Between the Epic store and Discord things are getting interesting. Both are offering deep discounts to developers over the Steam’s usual cut and for a developer who already has a built in audience (like Kickstarted games or devs doing new games after initial Kickstarter success) the promise of higher margins is possibly more appealing than the potential reach of Steam. At the very least we’re likely to see games do early releases to Epic or Discord to get initial sales and then do another release later on Steam for a long tail.
From a customer point of view, Epic and Discord’s actual clients and storefronts are far snappier and less clunky than Steam (which is still loading fricken webpages for everything). Epic likely needs to improve its community/chat stuff, and Discord has that mostly locked down. About the only thing keeping me on Steam is my huge library from years of use.
