Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 10 hours agoThey did have the wisdom to use Fortnite’s proceeds to make something like a Steam competitor that both takes a lot of startup capital and also has the potential to wildly exceed Fortnite’s future review, but they did not have the wisdom to make a store that customers would actually want to use for any reason except giveaways.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’m still not over the statement that consumers shouldn’t need to know whether AI assets are in a game or not, and Epic won’t be doing that even if Steam does. Couldn’t help but get in their own way every step
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Whenever Steam makes a controversial decision, Epic always takes the opposite stance, like on NFTs. Unfortunately, not once has Epic done this on something that I felt would be better for me as the consumer. Here’s some low-hanging fruit: being able to tell what kind of multiplayer a game has, or how much of a game I get to own with my purchase, is awful on every store, including GOG. Steam has a tag to indicate that a game has LAN multiplayer, but plenty of games have it and don’t list it. There is no tag to say, “you can host private servers for this game, whether on LAN or internet”. If a store took a stance to answer these kinds of questions for me, that store would fare better in my eyes. But of course Epic won’t be the ones to do it; their big cash cow is a live service game that must be run through them.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 hours ago
Ad then they bitch. All. The time. About it.
Gonna need captain big brain over here for why Valve has a monopoly.
Archer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Gabe Newell has sat back and watched all his competitors shoot themselves in the foot and decided not to do that
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
To be fair, it sure seems to be a pattern that the most anti-consumer, limited crap usually wins these battles. Look at Apple.
Maybe it’s Sweeney’s personal unlikeability that makes the difference here.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I wish cooptimus was better maintained. The “Online multiplayer: x-y players, LAN multiplayer: z-n players, combo multiplayer? Yes/no” is so simple and easy to execute and yet nowhere else does it.
Idk if this is the case on modern console physical releases, but having these numbers on the box, and correctly represented, used to be a hard requirement for getting your game onto a platform. N64 games had it on the front of box. PS2 games in a set of details on the back. It’s such a nice quality of life informational feature that falls between the cracks on steam because of how tags are done.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, I miss it. Given the total obliteration of LAN and the incentive to subscribe to PS+ or XBL, I’m pretty sure LAN is actually forbidden on modern consoles, since the PS4 and Xbox One.