There is currently a legal battle taking place between the two parties in the dispute, the owner of the Steam store and the other, the independent development studio Wolfire, which is seeking to represent game developers in a class action lawsuit against Valve Corporation, which owns the game store. It went to court, which in turn obtained documents from both parties. These documents showed how this happened. A past problem between the first company and Epic Games.

The Epic Store is owned by Epic Games and has many branches and contributions to the gaming industry, including the Unreal Engine in all its versions, as well as its ability to undertake the publishing of some games, the most recent of which was Alan Wake 2.

The company's store opened in 2018, and since then it has been trying in various ways to compete with Valve's Steam platform, whether with strong offers or special discounts on computer games, as well as giving players many valuable free prizes.

editor Simon Charles From GameDiscoverGo he was able to summarize what is currently happening between Valve and Wolfire, where in turn he obtained some documents and emails that show the dissatisfaction of the Valve boss. Gabe Newell Upon launching the Epic Store, this led to a verbal altercation between him and… Tim Sweeney The director of IPIC, who in one of the letters described him as “crazy”.

In the emails, it was revealed that the Valve manager was not happy with the opening of the Epic Store, as he was addressing several company bosses and warning them about the competing store, especially with the drop in game releases on the Steam platform in the period between 2019 and 2020.

Messages from 2018 also revealed that the reason for the dispute between Tim Sweeney Epic President and Gabe Noel Vale's CEO reiterates Epic's intention to reduce the percentage that Apple takes from developers' profits, which is 30%. During this period, Valve announced a new policy, which was to take 20% from the revenue of successful games on Steam, while with other games, 30% were taken, and this issue was resolved... Tim He describes the matter by saying that the powerful are given special treatment and a share of 30% is imposed on the young, which is why the verbal altercation in the letters occurred.

Despite all this, Valve's financial results have shown that the Steam platform still excels in many aspects and reaches new records from time to time, and this indicates, in one way or another, that the launch of its store by Epic has not really affected the results and achievements of Steam.