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.
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
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.
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).
They skipped step one of enshittification. You’ve got to GET the customers before you can leverage them against your suppliers.
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.
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.
Neat, another former RL player.
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.
Well they released a crappy store to compete in a market with well made products and services. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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)
It doesn’t sound weird when it’s true
That all-important eighth mover advantage that they teach in business school
Only person in my circle who used EGS for anything, had their card cancelled by their bank the next day for suspicious activity
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.
It’s a store, I don’t get it
