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"
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I don’t think Alan Wake II will ever come to Steam. It is published by Epic Games.
Guess I’m just never playing it, then.
So many thousands of amazing games I can play instead.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
Forcing me to agree to have my data used for training AI was the final straw for me. Almost 10 years since i bought the game and they pull that shit, imagine that with any other product, you go to start your car one morning and get a popup that says that you can’t drive it anymore untill you agree to be spied on. Insane.
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I use Epic for the free games, any games I want to buy either on Steam or independent website. I don’t buy games on Epic.
I use to buy games from Epic, but they decided to disown the Unreal franchise.
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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.
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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.
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I don’t think Alan Wake II will ever come to Steam. It is published by Epic Games.
Oops, sorry. To be clear I bought Alan Wake 2 on Epic
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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.
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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.
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.
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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?
I’m probably in the minority but platform exclusives actually make me AVOID your platform. I hate this type of bullshit.
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Sucks to suck.
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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?
My personal favorite platform is GOG simply because it offers actual ownership instead of a crippling dependency on their ecosystem. My second favorite is Steam because it has games GOG doesn’t. I’m not sure why I would want EGS beyond the free games, which are frequently not of interest to me anyway.
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Yeah but they must appease shareholders with quarterly profits. Also Tim Sweeney wants to buy moar land.
As someone who has worked in tech their entire career, it’s deeply depressing and infuriating how correct this is.
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“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.
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