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If you’re competing against steam, you need to make your experience as good or better than steam.
From what people tell me, because I don’t have it myself, the epic game store is really rough around the edges not a fun experience.
I don’t really get that sentiment. You buy a game -> You download the game -> You press the icon on the desktop/start menu/wherever -> you play the game.
What does it matter what store the game was bought on? The buying experience is a typical store experience on each platform. On my fiber connection the download speeds between epic and steam are both maxing out, and both synchronize saves across my PC and Ally. What else is there that makes one store so much better than the other, other than fanboyism and nostalgia?
What does it matter what store the game was bought on?
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Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)
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Way harsher build in DRM
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No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day
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No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support
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No mod support
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No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)
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no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you
Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)
Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.
Way harsher build in DRM
Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.
No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?
No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support
What are you going on about here? Every single title I played from the EGS I could play with controller just fine (I don’t do K+M so I play everything with controller and I never had a problem games just auto-recognizing both my bog standard xbox controller as well as whatever is build into the ROG Ally. Also the 8bitdo fighting stick works out of the box).
No mod support
First real argument against EGS I’ve read so far. But doesn’t mods just replace files in the file system anyway? What would you need a storefront support for?
No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)
Yeah, they aren’t for me either, but I can see that there are people who would see this as something positive to have. But then again, isn’t everything running in discord today anyway?
no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you
I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.
DRM only affects people who paid to play the game, the point of cracking a game is to remove the DRM.
Of course steam needs to call home when it’s online, but when you are offline you never need to connect again if you don’t want to.
Steam itself supports controllers. If you want to play a game without controller support you can use steam to play with a controller regardless.
Modding a game can be a complex ordeal, stream simplifies it (usually) and offers a download manager.
Steam reviews are far more trustworthy than ‘official’ reviews and that is just a fact. Reviewers are often bought, and even when they aren’t they directly paid for they are indirectly pressured to offer inflated scores, operate on a weird scale, and are often incompetent besides (the bad at games stereotype has existed since the 90s at least, and for good reason).
Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.
LOL. DRM affects everyone, is a bad for consumers and only benefits shareholders.
How so? It never once affected me and I consider myself a consumer.
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Epic games made their store UI so bad that buying games on it initially was actually frustrating and difficult. It might be better now, but at the time you had no shopping cart and had to go through about 10 menus to purchase anything.
Steam lets me add many games to my cart, and then 2 pages later I’m installing them.
They have a cart like any other storefront. I’m not sure if this was something they had from day one, but at least it’s not something new to the store at this point. But even if there weren’t a cart, how realistic is the scenario for the typical user that they go and buy 10 games all at once? Sounds to me like some fictional scenario to heap unwarranted hate on the epic store.
I mean I get it if someone says “I don’t really mind either way, but if I had to choose I’d rather buy on Steam because it’s slightly more convenient”. But the EGS gets so much hate everywhere and my question is what the problem is with the store that would warrant that much hate? I really don’t understand where that much vitriol is coming from.
It matters quite a bit if you’re gaming on Linux.
Isn’t it just first steps of enshittification? Hardly anything shocking.
That’s what you get for bringing platform game exclusivity to the PC, trash!
I just bought the only game I’ll likely ever buy on EGS. It was Alan Wake 2. Being published by Epic, it will unlikely ever be anywhere else until EGS shuts down.
My justifications are as follows: I love the developer and want to support them.
That’s it. The experience was… fine, but far from streamlined. The Epic achievement system is terrible. Imagine walking around in a horror game, immersed in the atmosphere, then a loud cheery mobile app chime blaps through your headphones and a giant banner splatters across the top of your screen announcing your achievement totally jarring you out of the atmosphere.
Then, imagine you find out you can turn on a ‘do not disturb’ mode by pressing shift+f3, then imagine you need to turn it on every time you launch the game. That’s the Epic Games Store experience in a nutshell.
