Only way epic can compete, even with bloody ubisoft launcher, is to remove competition. Improving their store just isnt part of their business plan, if it was they would do it.
Maybe less investment in trying to monopolise the market and more investment in developing their shopping platform so it’s not a smouldering turd.
If you count all of Steam’s features (Steam Input, Big Picture Mode, Proton etc), then Epic has decades of catching up to do. The problem is that usually executives will choose the “easy way out” of problems, so let’s just give free games instead of making a good platform.
Yeah, if I’m reading that right they’re complaining that they’re stuck at phase one of enshitification - lose money on aquiring users. The reason behind that is they’re not able to monopolize the market for their games. “These damn mobile stores won’t let us turn the corner and put the clamps on our users. Fix it please.”
We made the shittiest thing and nobody likes it. We’re all out of ideas.
Oh what a suprise. Maybe… Just maybe…spend some bucks on developing the store to be viable(!) competition to steam. And not just a ghastly shit-shop, where people only exist because of the freebies and partially because of the exclusives (i pirate the exclusives. Fuck exclusives).
Even GOG galaxy is a better client/store and they don’t have the same budget.
Epic sucks sweaty, hairy monkeyballs. And i would welcome competition for the apex.
I started playing Epic Games after support was added on Heroic Games Launcher. But I ain’t spending money on them because there’s no guarantee it will still be working tomorrow.
Would that be because it is still a pale imitator not remotely competitive with steam?
That’s really sad. I like Unreal Engine a lot, I hope it doesn’t suffer from this.
I imagine Unreal Engine is likely what keeps that store open. That and Fortnite.
If you haven’t tried a linux distro since the release of the SteamDeck, I highly recommend you give gaming on linux a shot.
Which destro would you recommend? I’m kind of sick of Windows.
What brand of graphics card do you have? If it’s Nvidia Pop!_OS will likely work best. If you have an AMD card I’ve heard good things about EndeavorOS.
Also, feel free to shop around for a desktop environment (DE) you like, which controls the look and how things are organized. While distros have a default, it’s pretty easy to swap them. I personally use KDE Plasma (the same DE the Steam Deck uses) with Pop!_OS
Fedora with “Dash to Panel” and the “Applications Menu” make the GUI identical to Windows. That would be a good start :)
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/6/applications-menu/
Or just use KDE instead of Gnome. It’s such a terrible DE anyway.
If you want a Couch Gaming Station I recommend you to look at ChimeraOS. Linux first that boots directly to Stream Big Picture (since it’s based on SteamOS) and it supports emulators and Epic Game Store.
On my old i5-8700T with qUHD630 it pretty much was a install, reboot, login to Steam and start playing. My Wireless Xbox Controller USB dongle was plug’n’play.
Man, I enjoy Linux too, but I cannot see how its related to the post.
Sorry, I’ll wait some more. I tried two times getting back to Linux as I see the potential. It didn’t work. I’m gonna stick to windows until some problems will be fixed, or Microsoft further enshittifies itself.
Thanks for the tip but no
I might actually buy a game of the app didn’t constantly sign me out.
I know, right! The “Remember Me” option does absolutely nothing ffs
EGS losing money has been great for gamers, as they continue to give away free games in an attempt to claw any marketshare. Gamers continue to win as long as this situation lasts. But reading these comments, nobody seems to recognize this.
Gamers lose when the store shuts down and you lose access to all of the games you got for free, or worse actually paid for.
Yeah but Unreal Tournament goes back on the shelf
And it’ll never be.
I had epic game store before they started blasting free games for unreal tournament. That was a fun alpha and was excited to see what it was going to evolve into. Guess not now lol
The only time I paid for anything on epic was Kingdom Hearts and that’s only because I’ve wanted a PC Version for 20 years
I’m still holding out for a Steam release. I refuse to play it elsewhere.
Whatever happens Beyond this morning is a little later on. By that I mean I would expect it within the next couple of months
Whoa, I’ve been waiting years for this. What makes you think it will happen soon?
Typically exclusivity contracts for epic last like a year, and I know that the Final Fantasy 7 remake was brought over. And that used to be epic exclusive. From what I understand though, the main problem is disney, any decisions that have to be made with Kingdom Hearts have to go through disney.
I wonder if GOG is profitable?
I wish I had an adblock for the epic launcher.
Just use the Heroic launcher
Good.
Haha
