Yes but Steam fanboys need reason to bash it
Lol ya right im Xbox fanboy. Even though i own all systems.
I just call out stupid people who hate stuff for no reason. Half of the people here post stuff without using brains. So someone has to call them out.
You get defensive about being called a fanboy yourself, then immediately call another group fanboys.
People aren't "hating on EGS" for "no reason"
- Epic store placement means removal from Steam, typically involving a money hat. Do you like when companies limit people's access to play games on their chosen/preferred platform?
- Epic's Tim Sweeney has become delirious. He's said on social media that the 88% model is unsustainable. He told PCGamer
that they will never include community forums. He had a massive sale on everything in the store without telling any developers, effectively erasing their improved profits, which led to games simply being removed from the store during the sale, meaning zero sales for those games which could have benefitted from cross-promotion while people were checking out the sale.
- Epic has no features while Steam has been building them for a very long time. Shopping carts
for starters. They also have an achievement system, updates and patches for older games, mod support, news sections for every game, a forum going back over a decade with community support, a review system, etc. Some of these are going to be made available at a later date on EGS, and that's great, I'll take another look when it's all finished. Finished is how I prefer the products I buy and support though.
Epic's road map shows that some of the most important/demanded features are the ones that are going to appear last, with not real date given. The fact a game store has a roadmap is questionable, usually you enter the market with a competitive product. If not for the money hatting, EGS would simply be Origin or Uplay, but with less features.
Right now the only advantage EGS has is a hat full of Tencent money to buy new exclusives. What's going to happen when Tencent stops funneling money to them, or (as a 40% shareholder with the ability to sue Epic if they aren't acting in shareholder's best interests) demands they start taking a bigger cut? Tim Sweeney has no options anymore as his balls are in a vice. Right now he is able to simply give out money to devs on the stipulation that they don't have the game available on Steam but that's not going to cut it when the 88% model fails as the EGS becomes more expensive to maintain.
This isn't about installing another launcher either. I've had Uplay and Origin for years and while I hate having another thing running in the background, at least they are fully functioning stores (with features like acheivements, a chat system, friends list, a shopping cart) They also don't pay outside companies to remove their games from other platforms as they stick to thei own products.
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