They are paying people to make their games exclusivly for their store, Not to be sold on any other online store like steam/origin/uplay/microsoft etc.
Welp, I'm not buying it then. I am pretty sure the exclusivity deal is due to Epic paying Deep Silver loads of money for the exclusivity. Plus Epic Store is a lot like early Steam, missing a lot of features and is quite region-restricted unlike Steam now. If the publisher wanted to pull this crap, they should have at least made is exclusive on GoG...
@yfk12 it's better for the devs, yes, but what's in it for YOU, as the consumer? Also, the game being cheaper kinda defeat the point of the devs getting bigger cut, tbh.