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Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”

I gave Epic’s store a chance but even after all this time it’s still shit and very far from feature parity with Epic. There’s not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.

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BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I never gave it a chance, as theit practice of paying for exclusivity is infuriating to me.

Make your shit better. Hell, make it comparable, and charge a lower cit (so devs make more), and I’d support then.

Paying to make the market more closed off sucks.

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Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I gave it a chance when they took over Rocket League. The damn platform doesn’t even support profile avatars while Steam did. So to get a basic nice feature working all you had to do was… not use their platform.

They still don’t have avatars.

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- TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They absolutely slaughtered rocket league. They even put the dumb cyber truck in it lmao
  
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  - Albbi@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh really? I haven’t played since they disabled trading items.
    
    I mean, the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars, and you’ll probably get better FPS due to the lowered polygon count! But yeah… no bueno.
    
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    Laser@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars
    
    It’s actually quite close to the real version.
    
    So no.
    
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toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
FWIW, my understanding is that the owner of Epic is actively anti-Linux, so your third feature is a unlikely at best. The fourth was only remotely likely due to market share.

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jagermo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Heroic launcher works pretty well to get epic and gog games in the deck. But yes, support could be better, especially since i remember unreal tournament being Linux friendly early on.

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thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah i get and play the free games from there, but they don’t seem to want to do more than the bare minimum for the storefront so I won’t purchase anything through them.

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- doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s beyond me how they can affors all of these free games and exclusive but not a single capable developer to make this platform beyond just the bare minimum.
  
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