this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
331 points (97.4% liked)

Games

32467 readers
1300 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I'm genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student's first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sidewalker@lemm.ee 107 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Fuck Epic. I will never forgive them for buying Rocket League and ripping it away from my Linux library on steam. I will never do business with them, never play any of their games, never give them a dime, never even sign up to claim their free slop of the week. Fuck Epic with a cactus.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Tbh without epic I doubt the game would've survived 2020. If you recall, the whole fanbase was unhappy with how things were stale. Epic didn't improve anything obviously but the free to play did boost it's active nunber of players. Nevertheless fuck epic.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Wasnt it already a PS+ game years before epic? It literally had millions of players on day one.

I dropped it after my steam copy first time asked me to register an epic account, but till then I didn't see huge issues with the game apart from the DLC milking.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)