Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'
stardust@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Epic store not being profitable and despite the backing of Fortnite and Unreal Engine surplas being at the state that it is shows that it is probably much more expensive than expected to make a feature rich launcher. What epic has is more a glorified storefront like humble bundle or Fanatical but worse because it isn’t even selling keys for the platform of your choice, and they have to handle server costs of storing all the games too.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They didn’t invest in features.
They “invested” in paying out the ass for exclusivity and loss leaders thinking that people would ignore how terrible their store was.
stardust@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
In a way it like trying to enter the smartphone market and paying for app exclusives then ignoring the part about polishing the OS experience as much as possible and putting out something that is from the flip phone era.
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I own a handful of games on Epic that I actually play. But whenever I see one of those games under $5 on steam sale I buy it. I think I’m down to two games left. Playing Fallout London on GOG gives me the same heebie jeebies
S491@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You at least actually own your games on gog
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A lot of Steam games actually ship DRM free.
yamanii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least you don’t have to downgrade it there, you aren’t missing out on anything with that next gen “update”