It’s absolutely terrible, if it wasn’t for the free games no one would use it at all.
I am waiting for the day that they hide our “free”-library behind a subscription.
They sure aren’t making money from me. Thanks for the free games I guess.
I have hundreds of free games on it.
I just object to digital only games in principle, unless at a huge discount.
Even my Steam account is like a thousand games from bundles.
The good news is that most free games were DRM free!
Free games were a great way to “get us there” but not a great way to monetize us. They haven’t come up with that. I’ve bought exactly 3 games on Epic, two that I price-camped because they were too expensive. The free games didn’t influence my decision.
The third was a free game where they had the best price around on a “more complete edition”. (Pathfinder Kingmaker). I feel like they could’ve done more of that if they wanted to monetize the free.
But what all these game stores need is to change the rules. GoG tried by making their Galaxy app pretty good at importing others’ apps. I feel like someone (Epic? lol) could go all-in supporting and helping maintain an open-source game management app like Playnite, so people who use that app would put Epic on the same tier as Steam, and then Epic would just have to win on an even playing field.
And if Epic provided a “find your price in all services” extension to an app like Playnite, and then just made sure to be $1 cheaper on everything, they’d dominate the market.
Or they could just continue doing what they’re doing and keep losing money.
They had GTA V for free at some point
The user interface looks and feels like it was designed by the 17-year-old “gifted” nephew of the CTO as a gig to make a little money before going to Uni.
Blowing up millions per years because you couldn’t be arsed to hire a senior UX/UI expert and a proper experience team to make that website is the very definition of stupid.
For those of you that don’t play rocket league, it is a prime example of just how badly epic is willing to fuck up a game for a dollar. Literally Mr. Crabs.
This December 5th, they are removing player to player trading from RL. Why would they alienate such a core faction of their player base?
Fortnite.
Apparently, that game is getting a racing mode and they want you to be able to drive your rocket league car in Fortnite. Apparently, the only possible way to make this happen is to eliminate player trading.
Now, every single high value item like alpha boost ($5-7k) or a white hate ($???k) is worthless. Now, if there is a particular item you really want, you can wait for rng to drop it, or nrg for it to show up in the shop where you can expect to pay a minimum of x10 credit it would have cost you on the trading market.
I expect a class action lawsuit. They locked player to player trading behind a purchase of credits. They made hundreds of thousands of players pay for a feature and are now removing that feature in a blindly idiotic money grab.
FUCK EPIC GAMES.
I play RL daily but had no idea about any of this (don’t trade nor particularly care about items).
I mean they made the app using a fucking game engine. Who knows what stupid idea they will come up with next.
Makes me think of the old saying (so applicable in IT, and I say this as also a mea culpa for what I do sometimes) that “When all you have is a big bloody hammer, everything looks like a nail”
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If you’re on a VPN, it reloads about every minute, meaning you can’t even scroll through your game library, or read the summary or watch a video for a game you’re considering buying. Their shoddy, clueless coding literally makes it impossible to shop in their store without disconnecting from my VPN, which is not happening.
Still not usable
To me, Epic Games store is nothing. They have no official Linux support while Steam does. And also games purchased on Steam works on Steam Deck too!
Good! Let’s keep it that way
Objectively, for such a third party store, their prices are just too expensively normal. If they dropped them instead of giving and paying for free copies of games to people who’ve shat on their store, they’d probably be in a better position.
Here’s what it’s like being their neighbor lol https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2023/11/03/epic-games-cary-hq-will-it-ever-happen.html
The only thing I use EGS for is Unreal, having the marketplace built in is pretty nice, but how Unity does it is still better.
