Every single avenue is open: Developers can decide whether or not to use Unreal Engine, and still use the Epic Store. Developers can decide whether or not to us

Every single avenue is open: Developers can decide whether or not to use Unreal Engine, and still use the Epic Store. Developers can decide whether or not to use the Epic Store, and still release on any other platform. They also let you use any payment provider you want. You can take Unreal games and sell them on Steam. You can take Unreal games and pile Steam's services layer into them. I get that Epic has earned a bunch of butthurt from gamers because they... offered developers money... but this is fundamentally opposite to the behaviors of Apple and Google, where their 30% app tax is compulsory, and use of their services is mandatory.