Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"
Desperate to fight Steam, Epic burns money like firewood – but admits the Epic Games Store kind of sucks and "there's still a ton of work to be done" with "long overdue features"
The Epic Games Store is just now pushing preloading and gifting
Amazing how slow development has been for their launcher. I don't know what is holding it back but the UI and lack of features seem like easy fixes for a company with those levels of resources.
Fortnite making them shit ton of money hand over fist is what’s holding them back probably. Much easier to just throw money at the store and buy exclusives and giveaways than taking away manpower from their money maker into a project that might make them money in the future. New hires that aren’t put on Fortnite or UE5 probably have a high opportunity cost in their business model.
The Epic store sucks so much that I’ve gotta look the game up on Steam just to tell what I’m supposed to be looking at on Epic.
Seriously, look up any game on the EGS right now and you’ve gotta scroll past a mountain of bullshit just to get a description of the game. It kinda reminds me of those really shitty cooking sites with all the fluff.
Hah you can report a game before you even get a description or a screenshot from the game
Even with the free games you don’t always get a picture of video of actual gameplay. Just marketing bs.
Like, I have no idea what this game is about.
This is the experience of every game in every store. I don't know how anyone chooses a game from the store.
Imagine how successful their store could have been if they had put all that money into improving the launcher and not antagonizing large parts of their customer base instead.
Their active hostility toward Linux users has put me off them pretty much permanently. If they made a big push toward Linux support, I might look at them more favourably.
They clearly don't want me as a customer: fuck 'em.
Even with all the support steam gives to linux, linux isn't even 3% of steam.
3% of steam would be a huge boost for the epic games store though.
They skipped step one of enshittification. You've got to GET the customers before you can leverage them against your suppliers.
Just povide an API and let the nerds create your launcher for free, you're obviously bad at it.
havent tried it, but lutris has epic support: https://lutris.net/games/epic-games-store/
now... is it an improvement? again no idea because I don't use epic
As long as it doesn't take a full minute to load any page and have 2 search bars that do different things in the game library, yes!
I like the idea of competition, but there is no excuse for the Epic Game Store being so awful. It could have been rebuilt from the ground up many times over in the years since it launched. It’s abundantly clear that Sweeney has no intention of improving it or giving consumers the features they actually want.
How hard is it to simply show a rough estimate of how much storage space a game will need before downloading? I'm not talking groundbreaking stuff here...
Clearly you ask for too much.
Can you imagine if the CEO actually cared? Like if they opened up the store and went
SWEET JESUS FUCKING MONKEYCUNTING CHRIST THIS IS HOT GARBAGE WHO DID THIS
They'd fix it in a week.
But, likely, since it's been, like... What... 6.5 years ago? Yeah. The CEO either likes it or doesn't realize how bad it is that the only thing most people interact with is so bad that it's insulting. And that isn't even hyperbole, it is actually disrespectful that they expect consumers AND PROFESSIONALS to be okay with that.
Edit: steam competes with free and wins - epic competes with free and loses.
Well it's okay it's a new se-
Wait, 7 years you say?
Better not miss if you're gonna come swing at the great. As a former Rocket League enjoyer who had Epic games shit up the game I bought BEFORE they got the rights; I say it's physically impossible for Epic to fuck far enough off, but they can fuck themselves all the way to the event horizon of off and stare whistfully at the off that cannot be fucked. Forever.
Neat, another former RL player.
Maybe if they spent more money making it a good experience that respects customers and developers alike and less on bribing platform exclusives they would be better?
It really sucks, I have the second Alan Wake game on there but I can't really get into it.
They released EGS Android game store without a library view, still none. They're really bad at making a good first impression. PC it's been 7 years. 7 years of bad impressions
They released EGS Android game store without a library view, still none.
WTF, you're right. I'm actually in shock. Just, how? How do you not have a way to view purchased content? That's App Store 101.
If they're so desperate, have they tried making a competitive product?
That all-important eighth mover advantage that they teach in business school
Make small admission to hide a bit trick.
They never care about having a good video game store, they want a good frontend for Fortnite.
Epic is eyeing Roblox: any good game made, no matter where it is sold, will become endlessly cloned in Roblox... almost all the money spend in Roblox, remain in Roblox.
A good game in Epic Game Store? Soon or later it will go on Steam, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on PSN, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on Xbox Store and, you guessed, Epic will lose some potential money.
They are pushing hard for artist and coder to get stuck in the Fortnite "Roblox Wannabe" metaverse; that's their only true goal. Lure developer, trap developers (I would say "Roblox lure child, trap child", but it sound excessively weird)
It doesn't sound weird when it's true
Roblox: finally a place where kids too can experience sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, pay disputes and make risky investments in an unregulated commodities market
At least when RuneScape did it it was entirely limited to within the game and didn't yet have a first party currency conversion system
Surely with the money they burn they could have fixed up the store by now?
Nonono.... It must take.... At least five more years. Mhm yes.
Well they released a crappy store to compete in a market with well made products and services. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Only person in my circle who used EGS for anything, had their card cancelled by their bank the next day for suspicious activity
Sucks to suck.
have epic tried using thier assets as fuel for the fire? besides epic, ubisoft is another bad one they got so desperate at one point they had to use a apple tv show to promote thier propaganda(mythic quest) a totally unfunny show, and it just rubbed people the wrong way, despite being made by one of the ISAIP founders, who was using that show for personal motives.
It’s a store, I don’t get it
"We're also putting great focus on ongoing launcher improvements that will make the store feel great to use," Allison added (my hottest tip: remember my freakin' login!).
Oh I thought I had this issue because of some layer of lutris/proton but everyone gets regularly disconnected? Hahahha (Never bought a game on Epic. And obviously not playing Rocket League anymore. :'( )