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.
I’m probably in the minority but platform exclusives actually make me AVOID your platform. I hate this type of bullshit.
It really sucks, I have the second Alan Wake game on there but I can’t really get into it.
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.
“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. :'( )
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.
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.
Well, they’ve been pushing all their capital toward exclusives and free giveaways.
It’s insanity. They do have all the money in the world so I’m happy to claim free games. Never going to buy there unless the game will never come to steam (Alana Wake 2 being the one exception).
I got so tired of being logged out and having to jump through so many captcha hoops to get back in that I don’t even claim the free games anymore.
Logging into Steam is crazy easy and I never get logged out.
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.
Oops, sorry. To be clear I bought Alan Wake 2 on Epic
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.
True, but I would have thought they would be able to see the value in the future investment of the platform.
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.
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.
It’s better on desktop. The thing they show first on mobile is the sidebar there.
I mean even if we ignore the idiotic choice to put the sidebar in the content at smaller widths, you’re still left with a terrible site.
Generic, meaningless tags along with no user reviews make the site useless.
Agreed, it’s not well-designed.
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!
Heroic
Heroic is good for handling install/playing Epic games, but it still farms out to a web browser frame for accessing the store itself.
I’m thinking OP has something like the GOG Galaxy in mind (which afaik will never come to Linux and I’m still pissed about it).
Yes I’m pissed too. They don’t want my money apparently so I just stay on Steam
They’re too busy not fixing Cyberpunk
Steam workshop hogging all mods pisses more. Especially if you have the game from GoG. Yes, steamcmd, but usability is bad with 200 mods.
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.
Completely agree with this, and also fully expecting to see that with cars too. I’ve heard of some models with onboard computers and displays showing people ads at traffic stops, it’s wild as is. But I’m certain all those CEOs and owners fully believe we should just own nothing and be happy. Everything should be rentals or subscriptions to fully cement their parasitism. And then they act surprised when people feel crushed and desperate. I my humble opinion they should fuck all the way off.
Neat, another former RL player.
Well it’s okay it’s a new se-
Wait, 7 years you say?
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.
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.
