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5 years after trying for a 'Valve-Counterstrike moment' with Fortnite, the Epic Games Store still isn't turning a profit (www.pcgamer.com)

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But don't worry, it's all part of the plan.

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[–] dinosaurusrex86@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think the way Epic sees it, young players probably just push Play: they don't browse around the launcher. Now maybe that's because there's nothing worth browsing TO, unlike Steam where you have a community hub, a discussion board, sometimes a Workshop, and then the store link, plus you have the news updates and little discussion pieces.
Epic just like Valve probably track mouse movements and mouse clicks with the app and know what we interact with and for how long. So they probably know that when I'm scrolling FF7R community hub photos/art, my scrolling slows on particularly thirsty images...
Given that then, maybe Epic isn't bothering adding some of Steam's features because they already know what users are interacting with on EGS.

FWIW I would buy games on EGS if: the price was much better than Steam; it incorporated Steam Input or equivalent; it had Big Picture Mode; they had a Linux native app.