Clarification as there is way too much misinformation on this : There is no anouncement that the game will be removed from the Steam store. Only that the game will be available on the epic store and the it will still be "fully supported" (whatever that means) on Steam.

I'm pretty sure effectively gutting the multiplayer community of a multiplayer game is a death sentence. It wouldn't surprise me if Epic would sacrifice Rocket League just to spite Steam. That said there was an announcement that there are no plans to remove the game from Steam - wouldn't surprise me if Epic goes back on their word though. An odd note: I suspect that if the game was released on Steam that US sales would be a lot higher. My guess is that Steam will wait for the exculsivity period to end and see how well they sell on Steam. If those games sell like hotcakes on Steam my guess is that Steam will do nothing - let your competitor destroy his own capital by offering pointless exclusives, there would be no point in interfering in that business model if that were the case.

If those games don't sell well I'm not sure what Valve can do - most responses I can think of could get Valve in trouble violating various anti-trust laws which Epic would undoubtedly pounce on. Epic has the advantage here since it's much smaller than Valve after all.

like you suspected Satisfactory had only 9 sales....

Hey, my fault for thinking the developer wouldn't lie...
I can only work with information available to me and if that info isn't true then that's that.

critical thinking and common sense also helps

Common sense like the developer wouldn't lie about things like that while seemingly depressed you mean? Rather than create a farce to mess with people. Sorry I don't have your omniscience.

Developers will lie now days. Its not all bunnies and kittens like it was back in the older days. Now days its pretty cutthroat, and even as customers you have to be on your guard as developers will do anything to make a sale.

would you have believed and made the post if they said 90 million sales?

it is actually very good

Given that the Epic Store only has 85 million users I would have made the post and accused them of fudging numbers in their favor since it is literally impossible to have those numbers.

Not gonna lie, actually believing Statisfactory sold 9 copies on the epic store when the devs proudly annouce it is pretty damn embarassing.

My take on it is that Epic have played (ish) with the numbers. They own Fortnight so they will have alot of users, that might use them to buy things for that, as Fornight will be locked to their store. So their numbers will only really count for that.

If that's not the case then what other reason would they say to Valve lower your developers prices and we will stop taking exclusives. Its pretty clear that Epic are spending more on exclusives than they are making.

so that you would be bothered checking.....

take this as a life lesson.
any evidence for this statement? do you know how much they have spent on exclusives and how much they are making?

I don't but to do have any to say other wise? Why else would they say this to Valve? Its certainly not going to be because they want to do the right thing for either the developer or the gamer.