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.
Once fortnite money dries up they will close up the store and you will lose all your games.
Pass.
They probably have unlimited unreal money to burn still
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
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.
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
Same.
Doesnt matter if it comes with a blowjob from Bea Arthur, Epic is a shitty company and I avoid them where ever I can.
Yeah but I bet Bea Arthur really knew how to make suck
I mean, lets be fair, you remove Epic from the situation, and I’m 100% down for a Golden Gurgle.
Will this be like the v1 roadmap where they continuously delayed many features until they gave up and privated the entire Trello board?
But now they have AI to do all the hard implementation work! Choo choo, here comes the slop train!!
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.
Cool but can they make it so when I buy the game, it’s in my steam library? No? Not interested.
Aren’t user reviews one of the things that were on their original roadmap back when they first launched egs?
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
Don’t worry, they’re just two weeks away!
They didn’t get people into their store by literally giving up free games.
They are not getting people in with q UI redesign.
DRM platforms are DRM platforms. Epic, Steam, Uplay and what not - at least I don’t care.
I wish Steam would remove all DRM. The big companies would not dare to oppose them with Steam’s near 100 percent PC market share.
They absolutely would oppose them and create (or exclusively use if they don’t already have it) their own platforms. Normies will buy their ball&gun games where they are available. They probably don’t know that Steam has anything other than FIFA or whatever it’s called now.
Losing AAA games would destroy Steam. The revenue of only indie and AA games is only a small (albeit significant) portion of the total. Even the only remaining AAA games in this hypothetical scenario, Valve’s own games, would not save them.
Besides, this isn’t feasible. Either they ask publishers to remove the DRM or leave (they will leave), or they forcibly push updates with cracked executables, which is illegal and a violation of trust.
Yeah we already have GOG for this purpose. Valve imposing similar restrictions would be reckless.
To be fair to Steam, the DRM is optional for developers. You can pressure those developers not to use it. That being said, Steam could have a DRM tag so you could filter out the DRM games.
What’s the point? They don’t offer the installers, you need the client to install the games.
“Promise”?
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.
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.
I’ve had a great experience with Heroic for this purpose. Generally just as easy to configure as Steam, compared to Bottles or some strange Lutris script
I’m not even tpuching the storefront of AI and NFT shilling Epic games; sweeney can fuck himself
Dear Tim. Give up already.
Took 7 years to have reviews? I dont fucking get it, like at all.
Because they knew they’ll get bombarded with people shitting on the epic version and recommending the steam version over and over.
Still shite
