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The one thing I like about them is they recognized why people really wanted to stick with steam: they have a large established library and don't want to bounce back and forth.
They took that and said "ok we'll give you free games every week until you have a large library here and won't want to leave!"
Jokes on them, I now have a large library of completely free games on epic and still use steam for the games I want to buy because I refuse to support their exclusivity bullshit.
You can send a snail mail to opt out, which is scummy at best, but technically you can opt out.
This is what's known as a dark pattern and is the exact thing the US government is suing Adobe over.
Making service cancellation or opt-out deliberately difficult is exploitative and something that should be illegal. Any company that does it doesn't deserve a cent from you.