- Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Oh no, rival game stores realize that they need to be better than steam to compete against steam? Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?!?
It’s almost like their shitty games aren’t enough to draw in sales. Almost like bringing down prices to where people are willing to pay them might actually convince people to spend money.
Weird.
- skozzii@lemmy.caEnglish4 days
Once fortnite money dries up they will close up the store and you will lose all your games.
Pass.
- rjwilliamson@lemmy.zipEnglish4 days
Honestly could not think of a single thing that they could do to get me to download the launcher. None of those features make it steam, and never will
- Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
I say let them try. If they actually innovate, we can only win. I’ll believe it when I see it, but currently steam has a monopoly by virtue, and we know how that ended for Intel, noVideo, Microslop, goggle and pretty much every other monopoly. It’s just GabeN holding the line before enshittification takes hold, and they’re already very active against European ownership laws.
- justaman123@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Yeah, I think the thing most of these giant companies forget is that they really gotta shine the users. They keep on just expecting everyone to just eat whatever they are given. The sad thing is most of them are right
4 daysSame.
Doesnt matter if it comes with a blowjob from Bea Arthur, Epic is a shitty company and I avoid them where ever I can.
I mean, lets be fair, you remove Epic from the situation, and I’m 100% down for a Golden Gurgle.
- nodiratime@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
And we all know what the asshole at the top thinks of linux. So, pass.
- IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
If what they claim is true then they’re actually doing a good job. It’s just that even with the significant advancements… I don’t trust them. They should be working on their PR as well. More lawsuits in favor of consumers like the Apple lawsuit they had would help move people over.
- Captain Howdy@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Cool but can they make it so when I buy the game, it’s in my steam library? No? Not interested.
Will this be like the v1 roadmap where they continuously delayed many features until they gave up and privated the entire Trello board?
- daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish5 days
They didn’t get people into their store by literally giving up free games.
They are not getting people in with q UI redesign.
- 6 days
It was never about any of that. It’s that Valve is a trustworthy company so far and epic is not. The only way at this point I would buy from epic store is if they offered DRM free copies.
- Feyd@programming.devEnglish6 days
I’m sure it’s about that for some people, but yeah if they ever actually get significant market share they will enshittify so fast it’ll make your head spin. The only thing that has changed is they’ve decided they need to make a bare minimum experience instead of just throwing money around.
- baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish5 days
those are just words, they won’t be doing shit
stop believing words people, we have years of actions, there is no reason the think they have changed
- Master167@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Even if they offer DRM free copies, I’d use GoG first. The Epic Game Store just doesn’t have the feature parity with GoG or Steam stores.
- 5 days
They definitely lost sales because of how horrible the user experience was/is, too.
Remember how the store launched without a fucking shopping cart so you had to buy each game as a separate transaction? Pepperidge Farms remembers that Epic isn’t even capable of the most basic of features required for an online store.
Of course, they’ll never get a cent out of me after they pulled that scumbag move of putting games on sale without ever asking the devs - they put games that hadn’t even released at like 50% off!
- ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlEnglish5 days
I have never understood why Epic did not make a decent store. They can absolutely compete if they actually tried. They have close to zero things going for them in terms of user experience or price. Quite the opposite.
A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.
Epic has a negative UX in terms of their store. GreenManGaming, Fanatical etc, has vastly better stores. Why is Epic wasting enormous amounts of money on giveaways, when most people see no reason to buy from them?? I prefer not using their store, not because Steam is better, but because Epic truly sucks.
- fpslem@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.
I’m with you. Although if the game is only on Windows, I’d rather be on Steam to make the Linux compatibility automagic.
- mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Took 7 years to have reviews? I dont fucking get it, like at all.
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish5 days
Because they knew they’ll get bombarded with people shitting on the epic version and recommending the steam version over and over.
- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
It’s claiming to be 6 times faster, and then it’ll turn out to be an Electron app.
Don’t get me wrong, I hope otherwise…
Steam: Good featureset, good Linux support, large library, probably going to be around in 10 years.
GOG: Offline installers, some explicitly DRM-free stuff, much easier to avoid unwanted updates of games, no need for a launcher.
Matrix: Specialized niche wargaming stuff, some physical media, can avoid unwanted updates, no need for a launcher.
What does Epic bring to the table?
Every additional store I deal with brings some hassle, and especially for online stuff, if it goes away, so do my games.
If it brought a big picture mode with controller navigation that wasn’t irretrievably broken, that would be an improvement.
Steam’s website design generally is so bad, and when you then add big-picture and controller it’s “I can’t believe it’s not a teenager’s first web project” bad.
Steam has a lot going for it, but don’t pretend it’s perfect.
Matrix Games. They’re a publisher that specialize in wargames that I frequent to get some of my more-serious milsims from (though availability has improved on Steam). They also run an online store. The above three stores are the only places that I’ve bought video games for a long time. Well…tries to remember actually, I did get a few things on itch.io, and IIRC I bought Starsector directly from the company that makes that.
- Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Oh it’s Slitherine’s own store/launcher you meant. That was a nice piece of software as well, you’re right.
- Solemarc@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Aren’t user reviews one of the things that were on their original roadmap back when they first launched egs?
- godlessworm@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
how is that even something that needs to be on a roadmap? it’s such a basic feature, the fact that it isn’t already there is insane
- Solemarc@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Look, I don’t know why you’d release a product that’s severely lacking compared to your competition but I also don’t know how you couldn’t sort this out in 10 years. Epic is a special company.
