I was actually quite okay with Steam monopoly...they have discounts on tons of games, consumer friendly refund policy, and all my games are on a single launcher, and it's been this way for ages without any competition<br>EPIC Store is a competition nobody asked for, at least on consumer side<br>For developers it's whole other story but quite frankly I don't care, and I hope the loss of sales are worth the slightly higher cut of the pie,(reply>), @clear It would be better to implement search feature early on than when you have a lot of games in the store and you technically need it.,(reply>), @Twisted Saint I have to update to the absolute latest (drivers and benchmark both), so what if I forgot to hit "offline" again for the chance my internet is down...  I own the game/benching software and paid to use it. Not only that though, my internet just sometimes doesn't work where I'm at, so am I to restart Steam into offline mode literally every time I shut down the computer after playing online? That seems like a dumb solution... And as some have found out, lets say I DO put it offline mode, then a while later, Steam NEEDS to reconnect or else it thinks you stole the game and playing it offline (this prevents me from using a friends steam library in offline mode, I can sign in as them, play the games, and go offline while signed in as them, and obviously Steam wouldn't know since its not hooked up to the internet. So to prevent the long term misbehavior of this, Steam forces you to reconnect).<br><br>There are valid reasons for DRM, but locking paying users out is NOT ok... Its easier to pirate games at this point, which I will be doing from now on (don't worry, I'll still buy a legal copy before getting a less restrictive cracked version),(reply>), @Jake Garrett So you're mad at steam for you yourself being a shitty planner and not checking? Don't see how its their fault you can't think ahead.,(reply>), @Ben and yet they got all the service provided by steam, I said that 30 percent is a fair cut for steam to provide a platform. Steam promote games and help the sales. Steam also provide cloud saves and other service, so the cut is fair.,(reply>), @Mr Evans Still better than getting 80 million Epic accounts hacked...