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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.
I'm fine with a company making their own games exclusive to their own software platform.
I don't like it, but I accept it.
I absolutely hate a company inducing other companies to release only on their software platform. Seems like monopolistic practices rather than competing on services.
It wasn't even to release on their software platform, it was more explicitly a "non-Steam" release as games were available on PC via both Epic and Microsoft's Store.
It literally is? They're literally not competing on services, they're competing via artificial scarcity.
I don't like epic like any other guy but point your finger at right people. Gearbox made borderlands 3 exclusive to epic.
Oh yeah they have bad actor vibes all over. The fact that they're pushing exclusive titles... That demonstrates that they're willing to make the gaming landscape worse for people to increase their own profits.
They can compete on revenue share, they don't have to compete on exclusivity. That's console level bullshit.
It still has no review system.
They still have no Linux version.
They still have many bugs in the store.
It... its a mess
Jesus, how can you run a digital storefront in this day and age and not let people post reviews? I read a bunch of those on steam before I buy most of my games.
It took them years to implement a shopping cart. A basic feature that literally every online shop has had since forever.
They are not good at e-commerce.
Lol the Switch e-Shop doesn't have a cart. Unless they added one pretty recently.
But that's Nintendo so...
Steam runs on Chromium too. I haven't used Epic so I can't compare the two, but it's one of the reasons that Steam can be clunky sometimes too.