Epic Games har tidligere fået masser af kritik fra brugere på PC, for at købe sig til eksklusiver rettigheder på diverse storfilm til deres platform, Epic Games Store. Epic selv argumenterede for at dette er et værktøjerne de kan bruge til at bryde Steams ellers ret absolutte monopol på markedet.
En ting er dog sikkert; de er ikke færdige med at bruge den taktik. I et interview med PC Gamer fortæller Tim Sweeney, at de har flere store eksklusiver planlagt:
"We're really honing our strategy based on what we observed worked really well in previous launches, and what didn't work really well. A handful of major exclusives really moved the needle ... and the smaller games, especially games that had a smaller audience that was typically on Steam, we found that a lot of those players weren't willing to move over."
Blandt andet Borderlands 3 endte med at være en massiv succes for Epic, siger de.