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From what I understand, history has proven otherwise. Wars are always very profitable for certain groups.

Epic Games*, Mihoyo**, IO Interactive, Bethesda/ZeniMax***, Deep Silver.

* Epic games is 40% owned by a publicly-traded company, Tencent.

** Mihoyo filed for an IPO in 2017, but withdrew its application for unknown reasons.

*** ZeniMax Media was recently acquired by Microsoft, and is now a Microsoft subsidiary. I’m not sure if this makes it count as a ‘non-public gaming company’ by your definition.

I was up for a Steam competitor.

GOG Galaxy has been good even before Epic Store existed.

If you want to fight the monopoly, go with a good alternative like GOG Galaxy. This article is about Epic, hence the preference for Steam.