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Gamers really think that most indie devs are trying to get EGS deals while accumulating Steam wishlists when 99.9% of us know we have got zero chance of that and we're not even anywhere on the same continent as Epic's radar let alone on it
The reality is that the vast majority of indies impacted by this new legalese are tiny indies with tiny budgets doing early access on itch to make sure their games are the best and most bug free they can be before they hit Steam, so think about that before you gloat about this
You're gloating about the 1% in indie game development getting screwed by this when it mainly just fucks up indie devs who are legitimately trying to launch their games on Steam and want to make sure they're not a buggy mess on launch for Steam users
Most indie devs don't have any budget to hire professional QA with, and a ton don't have large enough communities that they can rely on to do free QA for their games, so EA on itch is literally the only method for them to make sure their games are ready for "primetime" on Steam
But y'all have made up your mind already that indies are all greedy monsters angling for EGS deals so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
