https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2020/01/15/epic-game-store-exclusives-sales-results-work/ > Remember 2019? Yeah, those were the days. I remember it like it was just a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, remember the 2019 Store Wars? And how they were going to ruin > In case you were lucky enough to miss the whole Store Wars business (and I’m hoping most of you did, because it was so silly in retrospect): in a nutshell, Epic Games started its own PC gaming storefront that operated in direct opposition to the entrenched Steam. It successfully drew in indie developers by offering a more attractive revenue split (and threw some pretty harsh shade at Steam and Google Play’s existing split while doing so) as well as a guaranteed sales minimum. It also snatched up exclusivity for a number of games that most likely would have come out on Steam otherwise — in some cases, even snatching them from under Valve’s nose.