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Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:23 pm
by Lee
Recently also tried to spin the blame on the Shenmue III shit fest on Valve of all things.

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topi ... -platform/

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:31 am
by DjchunKfunK
How dare Valve stipulate that a game must be on sale on their store in order to take advantage of their infrastructure.

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 11:44 am
by DjchunKfunK


Calling out Steam after the mess you made of your sale is...

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 5:58 pm
by Medicine Man

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2019 7:24 pm
by Medicine Man

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:46 pm
by Medicine Man

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:05 pm
by Achtung Englander
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ ... -its-store

Epic are throwing a shite load of money at developers to get exclusives. I supppose that is one way to build an audience if the client itself is too shit to compete on an even field

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 3:45 pm
by Medicine Man
Limbo is now free...

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p ... limbo/home

Moonlighter and This War of Mine are next up on July 25th...

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/c ... collection

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:34 pm
by Drarok
Achtung Englander wrote:
Fri Jul 12, 2019 4:05 pm
I supppose that is one way to build an audience if the client itself is too shit to compete on an even field
I think people are forgetting how shitty and hated Steam was when it was brand new.

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:55 pm
by Medicine Man
Moonlighter and This War of Mine are now free...

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/c ... collection

For Honor and Alan Wake are next up on August 2nd...

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/c ... collection

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 11:39 am
by Mantis
Cloud saves coming to a few titles with more to come in the future.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019 ... loud-saves

Still not tempted to start using it yet.

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:13 pm
by DjchunKfunK
How to and how not to announce your are going Epic Games Store exclusive, all in one post.

https://ooblets.com/2019/07/we-did-the-thing/

I'm fine with the explanation for why they made the decision, but the condescension contained in both the start and at the end of the post are terrible and have put me off actually wanting to support the developer.

They have doubled down on Discord by saying anyone who thinks the tone of the piece is wrong was never going to buy the game anyway.

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:29 pm
by Raid
I really don't buy the "Steam used to be crap too!" argument. Yes, it was, but then it improved, and the improved version is what we now have, what Epic is being measured against. I can't pretend to know how complicated it is to set up things like user ratings, shopping carts and, well, user information security, but there's clearly a shitload of money available and you'd think they'd be able to afford some time spent on programming them.

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:44 pm
by Alan
They should just have bought Discord

Re: Epic Game Store - Epic's Steam Competitor

Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 8:33 am
by DjchunKfunK
Raid wrote:
Thu Aug 01, 2019 6:29 pm
I really don't buy the "Steam used to be crap too!" argument. Yes, it was, but then it improved, and the improved version is what we now have, what Epic is being measured against. I can't pretend to know how complicated it is to set up things like user ratings, shopping carts and, well, user information security, but there's clearly a shitload of money available and you'd think they'd be able to afford some time spent on programming them.
That argument also gets less relevant the longer the store is out without any improvements being made to it.