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Because in their mind not taking the exclusivity deal is leaving money on the table and no soulless suit will ever allow that to pass.
The fact that they ignore the fucking field of corpses of games and studios that floundered and died in the grasp of Tim Sweeney but still take the devil's bargain shows how these people have zero situational awareness. At least a single player games has a better hope of maybe finding an audience in a years time or so. But then they have a huge disadvantage as practically no one will remember any of the promotional material or any reason to even consider buying it