I'm genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student's first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 115 points 2 months ago (40 children)

I see some larger publishers bemoan the fact that Epic hasn't caught on, but it should be pretty obvious why. Markets that favor the buyer more than they favor sellers will typically attract the largest user base, and the sellers don't have a choice to not sell where the buyers are.

Epic giving away free games is a nice buyer friendly action, but literally everything else they've done, from paid exclusives to poor client experience isn't favorable to buyers. They've created a market that no buyers want to use unless the product is free or literally not available anywhere else.

Giving publishers/devs better cuts is great, but it does nothing for you if all the buyers are on Steam instead.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I don't even get their free stuff. And if it's only epic, I won't even bother checking it out or well...ya know.

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I hope it’s okay to ask, because I am being genuine, but why is using the Epic Games Launcher such a deal breaker for you? I have Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, Xbox, Battle.net and I’m sure more that I’m forgetting and I honestly don’t mind at all. It’s never been an issue for me but I think that I’m in the minority on that so I was curious to hear your thoughts.

[–] cottonmon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Personally, while I do use Heroic to access games from the epic games launcher, I will probably never buy anything from them because of Epic buying exclusivity and removing Steam as an option from games that were crowd-funded.

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense. Sounds like more of an Epic Games thing than specifically an anti-games launcher sentiment, or maybe a little of both? I hadn’t heard about the crowd funded game exclusivity thing though, I’ll have to read up on that. Deeply lame thing for them to do, for sure.

[–] cottonmon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've also run into a few issues with the epic games launcher (i.e. game wouldn't patch, so I had to reinstall the launcher. Having to reinstall a game because the launcher doesn't see it anymore, launcher is slow, etc.) which is why I use the Heroic launcher.

[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I’ve heard a lot about Heroic but honestly never looked into it. Not that I’m old or anything but it reminds me of Trillian from back in the day.

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