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.
Sucks to suck.
I’m not fundamentally AGAINST the EGS but Epic is not a good company and saying that they have a ton of work to do is the understatement of the century.
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.
First, make it load way faster. Your app is second to everything I want to do.
Second, if I click on a game in my library, I don’t expect it to install in one single click. Even Steam has the decency to ask what I want to do. Maybe I want to remember what the game is about first.
Third, I expect you to update your client automatically instead of badgering me with restarting the app manually.
There, you made it 80% better for me with that.
They could also just say “screw this” and invest in the excellent Heroic Games Launcher (just like CDPR/GOG did to some extent).
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.
Only person in my circle who used EGS for anything, had their card cancelled by their bank the next day for suspicious activity
They skipped step one of enshittification. You’ve got to GET the customers before you can leverage them against your suppliers.
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.
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.
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.
Neat, another former RL player.
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.
If they’re so desperate, have they tried making a competitive product?
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.
