Here's How The Epic Games Store Plans To Improve In 2024
Here's How The Epic Games Store Plans To Improve In 2024
2024 will see more free games, a better download manager, and an improved offline state added to the Epic Games Store.
- Control over game updates (scheduling, reordering downloads)
- Possible offline mode
- Better friends list
- Bundles where you won't lose savings if you own some of the games in the bundle
So they're adding features already available in Steam. I already have Steam.
I mean, I'm pretty pro-steam myself but competition is always a good thing for consumers. There are plenty of features that Steam users have been asking for for years and maybe another competitor in the desktop marketplace can light a fire under them, so to speak.
That's the whole problem, Epic hasn't approached the situation with the intention of being good faith competition. They have instead attempted to exclude competition by paying for platform exclusivity. That's anti-consumer. As a consumer that annoys me. GOG is competition for Steam, they offer a genuine value via DRM free versions of the same games ALSO available on Steam. That leaves the choice in the buyers hands as to which platform offers a better value. It's a big difference in my opinion.
Steam's maintenance downtime (as someone on US Eastern time) and just general glitchiness has been a bit irritating lately. I wouldn't mind some competition but Epic isn't a Linux friendly company so ... I'm not exactly rooting for them.
However, I'd like them to poke Steam just enough that Valve reduces their downtime to almost zero.
They could stop being dogshit. That would be good. Like a launcher that I don't need to wait for ten times longer than my Arch boot.
They could, but I'm betting they will still be a joke of a platform that only exists because Epic has a lot of money to throw around.
Friendly reminder that a sizable share of Epic is owned by Tencent.
Before I deleted my account they still didn't have a shopping cart.
They could stop wasting money on buying exclusivity. That would be the biggest improvement of all.
I'll never pay them a cent, still, EG is a decent freebie shelf.