Epic vs. Steam: the console war reimagined on the PC

There's a war brewing in the video game industry, and it's getting uglier by the day. Steam, the longtime leading digital distributor for the PC platform, is facing a significant challenge from an equally large and powerful player: Fortnite creator Epic Games, which launched its own PC games store last year. The ensuing competition has morphed into a console war-like debate for a modern generation of players who grew up under the unhindered dominance of Steam, a platform now facing its first real form of competition since it arrived on the scene nearly 15 years ago. I'm glad we're seeing more and more competition in this space. Steam is a hot mess, both the store and the application itself, and the more competition Valve has to deal with, the better. I'm tired of Valve approving every single garbage reskin "indie" title, leading to an endless stream of terrible "games" that makes it incredibly hard to find the few gems among the pile of feces, and I'm tired of the Steam client being a huge, slow behemoth of an application that regularly crumbles under its own sheer bloat (on Windows - let's not even get started on the Linux and Mac versions). Valve has had this market all to itself for far too long, and they've grown complacent. I welcome the competition from GOG, Epic, Humble, and all the others.