Epic has openly stated they their only "victory" is either getting special exceptions for themselves or to destroy the playing field entirely in the other half of the lawsuit vs. Apple. This very article says outright their goal:
Epic stood to make hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars if it doesn’t have to pay Google’s fee.
Its even pointed out specifically in the article that the key difference was using a jury (aka emotionally appeal to the types of idiots who make up a jury) instead of a judge. Which is Epic's entire business strategy when it convinced people of the "Steam monopoly" to make people fight for their own far more abusive anti-consumer practices.
Google is absolutely in a monopoly of sorts and abusing it, but let's never paint "Epic W" as anything but a massive asterisk that they are doing it so they can make more money for their Chinese owners and would do the same the moment they get the chance.
Epic has openly stated they their only "victory" is either getting special exceptions for themselves or to destroy the playing field entirely in the other half of the lawsuit vs. Apple. This very article says outright their goal:
Its even pointed out specifically in the article that the key difference was using a jury (aka emotionally appeal to the types of idiots who make up a jury) instead of a judge. Which is Epic's entire business strategy when it convinced people of the "Steam monopoly" to make people fight for their own far more abusive anti-consumer practices.
Google is absolutely in a monopoly of sorts and abusing it, but let's never paint "Epic W" as anything but a massive asterisk that they are doing it so they can make more money for their Chinese owners and would do the same the moment they get the chance.