Epic Games Store Won’t Sell “Crappy Games, Porn, or Bloatware” Says CEO Tim Sweeney

Epic Games Store Won’t Sell “Crappy Games, Porn, or Bloatware” Says CEO Tim Sweeney

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As you may have heard, the Epic Games Store just announced a new lineup of PC exclusives, including The Outer Worlds and Control, but is locking down games the only way Epic plans to differentiate themselves from Steam? Apparently not – it seems Epic is also taking aim at Steam’s quality control, or lack thereof. Last year Valve announced they’d be taking a hands-off approach to Steam content curation, allowing anything that wasn’t “illegal or straight-up trolling.” Response to the move has been split, but there’s no denying it can be difficult to sift through the chaff on Steam these days.

The selection of titles on the Epic Games Store is very tightly curated at the moment, but, eventually, the plan is to open the store up more. That said, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says his store won’t be adopting Steam’s anything goes policies…