A recent major Bloomberg article about what's happening at Valve caught the attention of the Epic Games boss. Tim Sweeney drew attention to one point from the material related to the "threat" from Ubisoft.
Internal Valve emails addressed to Ubisoft and Warner Bros. came into the hands of journalists. They show that there is a price parity practice within the company. It is alleged that Valve may have threatened the developers of Rainbow Six Siege over the sale of a cheaper bundle in their own Uplay store, supposedly the company then gave Ubisoft until "the end of tomorrow" to rectify the situation.
Tim Sweeney spoke out on social media:
Is this the "fair competition" that many articles write about? If a store with a dominant market share and a 30% commission can pressure developers into not offering customers the benefit of lower commissions on other platforms, then competition simply has no chance here.
One of the discussion participants, under the nickname TheIshikawaRin, reminded Sweeney that Horizon Chase Turbo was recently removed from Steam. This is a game by the AQUIRIS studio, which Epic Games acquired (it was also removed from EGS).
TheIshikawaRin also noted that besides Steam, there are other services that the Epic boss, for some reason, does not criticize in the same way:
You just removed an already released game from Steam for no reason after acquiring its developer. You and your company are pursuing an openly anti-competitive and anti-consumer policy. You cannot pick on Steam exclusively for a 30% commission when it is the INDUSTRY STANDARD. If you were consistent, you would criticize Xbox, Nintendo, and PlayStation just as much.