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  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you’re competing against steam, you need to make your experience as good or better than steam.

    From what people tell me, because I don’t have it myself, the epic game store is really rough around the edges not a fun experience.

    • NineSwords@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I don’t really get that sentiment. You buy a game -> You download the game -> You press the icon on the desktop/start menu/wherever -> you play the game.

      What does it matter what store the game was bought on? The buying experience is a typical store experience on each platform. On my fiber connection the download speeds between epic and steam are both maxing out, and both synchronize saves across my PC and Ally. What else is there that makes one store so much better than the other, other than fanboyism and nostalgia?

      • Jako301@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        What does it matter what store the game was bought on?

        • Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)

        • Way harsher build in DRM

        • No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day

        • No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support

        • No mod support

        • No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)

        • no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you

        • NineSwords@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)

          Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.

          Way harsher build in DRM

          Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.

          No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day

          Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?

          No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support

          What are you going on about here? Every single title I played from the EGS I could play with controller just fine (I don’t do K+M so I play everything with controller and I never had a problem games just auto-recognizing both my bog standard xbox controller as well as whatever is build into the ROG Ally. Also the 8bitdo fighting stick works out of the box).

          No mod support

          First real argument against EGS I’ve read so far. But doesn’t mods just replace files in the file system anyway? What would you need a storefront support for?

          No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)

          Yeah, they aren’t for me either, but I can see that there are people who would see this as something positive to have. But then again, isn’t everything running in discord today anyway?

          no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you

          I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.

          • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.

            LOL. DRM affects everyone, is a bad for consumers and only benefits shareholders.