“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. :'( )
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.
They never care about having a good video game store, they want a good frontend for Fortnite.
Epic is eyeing Roblox: any good game made, no matter where it is sold, will become endlessly cloned in Roblox… almost all the money spend in Roblox, remain in Roblox.
A good game in Epic Game Store? Soon or later it will go on Steam, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on PSN, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on Xbox Store and, you guessed, Epic will lose some potential money.
They are pushing hard for artist and coder to get stuck in the Fortnite “Roblox Wannabe” metaverse; that’s their only true goal. Lure developer, trap developers (I would say “Roblox lure child, trap child”, but it sound excessively weird)
Roblox: finally a place where kids too can experience sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, pay disputes and make risky investments in an unregulated commodities market
At least when RuneScape did it it was entirely limited to within the game and didn’t yet have a first party currency conversion system
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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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Well they released a crappy store to compete in a market with well made products and services. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
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. :'( )
If they’re so desperate, have they tried making a competitive product?
They skipped step one of enshittification. You’ve got to GET the customers before you can leverage them against your suppliers.
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.
Make small admission to hide a bit trick.
They never care about having a good video game store, they want a good frontend for Fortnite.
Epic is eyeing Roblox: any good game made, no matter where it is sold, will become endlessly cloned in Roblox… almost all the money spend in Roblox, remain in Roblox.
A good game in Epic Game Store? Soon or later it will go on Steam, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on PSN, and Epic will lose some potential money, will go on Xbox Store and, you guessed, Epic will lose some potential money.
They are pushing hard for artist and coder to get stuck in the Fortnite “Roblox Wannabe” metaverse; that’s their only true goal. Lure developer, trap developers (I would say “Roblox lure child, trap child”, but it sound excessively weird)
Roblox: finally a place where kids too can experience sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, pay disputes and make risky investments in an unregulated commodities market
At least when RuneScape did it it was entirely limited to within the game and didn’t yet have a first party currency conversion system
It doesn’t sound weird when it’s true
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 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
Guess I’m just never playing it, then.
So many thousands of amazing games I can play instead.
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.
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.
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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.
Well it’s okay it’s a new se-
Wait, 7 years you say?
Sucks to suck.
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.