The Epic Games Store's slow, steady growth continues, as 1,100 more games were added to the storefront.
  • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    A few that come to mind

    • The review system isn’t nearly as good
    • Tag searching is a joke compared to steam
    • No steam achievements
    • No direct access to updates and patch notes
    • No game activity log, showing achievements you got and friends activity
    • No concepts like free weekends and the such
    • No dynamic collections
    • Poor insight on performance with controllers or hardware like steam deck or rog Ally
    • No where near the level of profile creation and customization
    • No forums for game discussion
    • No community content for guides and controller layouts
    • No overlay options
    • No mobile app
    • Nothing like steam work shop
    • No DLC downloading management like steam
    • No curator groups to follow
    • Unable to follow developers
    • No remote play together
    • Lack of something like big picture mode, for full controller playing. I use this a lot when I hook my PC to my TV for couch gaming.
    • Lack of inventory and card items
    • Built in FPS counter missing
    • Beta and play test environment support
    • Family sharing
    • Remote game streaming
    • Built in voice chat
    • Rich chat that shows what game friends are playing and what they’re doing with a direct way to invite to game or invite to watch
    • Seemless refund policy
    • JasSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      And you think Epic implementing some or all of these would encourage Steam users to switch? Why would they? Steam already offers all of that.

      • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I’m saying that if they want to compete with another company they need a compelling offer, one that at least has feature parity on the big ticket items. Yes, you would then need to work to attract people, but a bare bones store front like they have is a huge roadblock. People feeling like making the switch means they lose things is not a way to encourage adoption.

        • JasSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          I don’t think feature parity would entice anyone across. It would need to be much better than Steam to entice migration, and it’s hard to conceive how much work and money that would require.

          • Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            I agree, is why I said at least. That matches the current offering people are already embedded in. Now you need to entice. I think the biggest issue they face is how much history people have with that platform, there already so bought in. Literally. With tons of games, friends, and achievements already there, it would take a ton for most people to just walk away from that.