• rjwilliamson@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4 hours

    Honestly could not think of a single thing that they could do to get me to download the launcher. None of those features make it steam, and never will

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Same.

      Doesnt matter if it comes with a blowjob from Bea Arthur, Epic is a shitty company and I avoid them where ever I can.

  • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
    18 hours

    Will this be like the v1 roadmap where they continuously delayed many features until they gave up and privated the entire Trello board?

  • IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    If what they claim is true then they’re actually doing a good job. It’s just that even with the significant advancements… I don’t trust them. They should be working on their PR as well. More lawsuits in favor of consumers like the Apple lawsuit they had would help move people over.

  • Solemarc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22 hours

    Aren’t user reviews one of the things that were on their original roadmap back when they first launched egs?

  • Captain Howdy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    22 hours

    Cool but can they make it so when I buy the game, it’s in my steam library? No? Not interested.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1 day

    They didn’t get people into their store by literally giving up free games.

    They are not getting people in with q UI redesign.

  • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1 day

    I have never understood why Epic did not make a decent store. They can absolutely compete if they actually tried. They have close to zero things going for them in terms of user experience or price. Quite the opposite.

    A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.

    Epic has a negative UX in terms of their store. GreenManGaming, Fanatical etc, has vastly better stores. Why is Epic wasting enormous amounts of money on giveaways, when most people see no reason to buy from them?? I prefer not using their store, not because Steam is better, but because Epic truly sucks.

    • fpslem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      A lot if people, myself included mainly care about price and drm. So Steam is not something I care about, just price or GOG.

      I’m with you. Although if the game is only on Windows, I’d rather be on Steam to make the Linux compatibility automagic.

      • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
        18 hours

        I’ve had a great experience with Heroic for this purpose. Generally just as easy to configure as Steam, compared to Bottles or some strange Lutris script

        • fpslem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4 hours

          I forgot about Heroic, I’m checking it out now, thanks!

      • ComradePenguin@lemmy.mlEnglish
        24 hours

        I have this preference as well but it’s not too important for me. I care mainly about the price and if I can actually own the game. So if I pay 50% more I don’t buy on GOG but 10% 20 sure. Otherwise it’s just wherever I can get the cheapest.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1 day

      Because they knew they’ll get bombarded with people shitting on the epic version and recommending the steam version over and over.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24 hours

    I’m not even touching the storefront of AI and NFT shilling that Epic games aspires to be. Sweeney can fuck himself

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    It’s claiming to be 6 times faster, and then it’ll turn out to be an Electron app.

    Don’t get me wrong, I hope otherwise…

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    2 days

    It was never about any of that. It’s that Valve is a trustworthy company so far and epic is not. The only way at this point I would buy from epic store is if they offered DRM free copies.

    • Master167@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      Even if they offer DRM free copies, I’d use GoG first. The Epic Game Store just doesn’t have the feature parity with GoG or Steam stores.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1 day

      They definitely lost sales because of how horrible the user experience was/is, too.

      Remember how the store launched without a fucking shopping cart so you had to buy each game as a separate transaction? Pepperidge Farms remembers that Epic isn’t even capable of the most basic of features required for an online store.

      Of course, they’ll never get a cent out of me after they pulled that scumbag move of putting games on sale without ever asking the devs - they put games that hadn’t even released at like 50% off!

    • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
      2 days

      I’m sure it’s about that for some people, but yeah if they ever actually get significant market share they will enshittify so fast it’ll make your head spin. The only thing that has changed is they’ve decided they need to make a bare minimum experience instead of just throwing money around.

      • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        1 day

        those are just words, they won’t be doing shit

        stop believing words people, we have years of actions, there is no reason the think they have changed

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        2 days

        That’s why I said DRM free, because I don’t trust them, so I would only buy something if I could take it and use it away from their store forever.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 days

      Replace ‘buy’ with ‘download for free’ and ‘launcher’ with ‘unnecessary software after the download completes’, and they might get my attention.

      I wasn’t swayed by their ‘free’ games that require their software. I wasn’t swayed when they bought up exclusivity contracts (yarr!). I’m sure as fuck not going to be swayed by the software having the absolute bare-minimum feature set.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1 day

        I have fully taken advantage of their free games. I just never buy anything on their store. I have hundreds of their free games and a lot of them are awesome games. Anything I want to buy I go through steam or gog.