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.
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- 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.
Yeah but Steam doesn't pay companies to exclude other platforms!
Oh wait, that's a good thing.
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Well, here's the thing: If they provide a good service, good prices, and they treat their customers well, I am totally OK with them making money.
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You're right, one runs a shitty store and the other runs a good one.
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That's a ridiculous take: Steam is good because they made it good. Epic is shit because they made it shit.
It's not a luxury, it's a choice.
Epic could have chosen to be more like Steam or even GOG, but instead they chose to be Epic.
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Steam is doing well because they made a good platform, not the other way around. Gabe Newell even came out and said that piracy is not a pricing issue, it's a service issue, which reflects Steam's approach. They were not even close to being the first online game store.
GOG came well after steam had established itself and, unlike Epic, they are not shitty (they don't even have DRM at all!) so your argument just doesn't hold up. Their launcher isn't as good as Steam but it's still better than Epic and you don't even need to use it because, again, no DRM!
Also, let's not pretend like Epic, a 32 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY, is some tiny fledgling group: They have, and have always had, more than enough money to make a great launcher but instead they spend their budget on bribing studios with exclusivity deals, trying to bribe potential customers with free games, and of course marketing.
Meanwhile, in addition to making a good, affordable handheld gaming PC, Valve has made massive contributions to Linux gaming, virtual reality, and gaming at large.
In short: Fuck Epic lmao, the entity who is responsible for Epic being shitty is Epic itself.
That is Epic's fault my guy, troll harder.
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Bye Felicia!
Who did they pay to make their games exclusive to Steam?
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It should be easy to provide examples of exclusivity deals they signed then.
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.
GOG is nice, but I don't trust it because it's owned by CD Projekt
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.