Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'
Tellore@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like how many games they give away for free, but tbh I’ve never played any of them there. Some of those games I decided to buy later on Steam anyway just to do achievements.
shacknews.com/…/epic-games-store-unlocks-achievem…
They’ve had achievements for over two years… I swear all the anti epic crowd knows nothing about what their launcher is like at this point and just keep repeating what they read back when it launched… Just like the Steam boycotters back in the early 2000s
Are you serious? Obviously people don’t care about achievements on a platform that has almost no community-related functionality.
The person I was replying to said there’s no achievements on EGS, I showed them the proof that achievements are supported and they’re more mandatory.
I don’t care at all about community shit on Steam and consider all of it to be bloat, I still love the challenge from achievements.
I see. Still, I can see that for many people achievements with no value are no better than their absence. Platform provides value, and for now only steam provides a lot of it with almost each purchase.
What has community got to do with achievements? My Steam profile is entirely private, the achievements are for me.
My profile is also not public but it’s visible to friends. Also I can make it public when I want.
AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Sorry if this comes across pedantic, but in case anybody isn’t aware there are some games that offer Achievements (Alan Wake 2 is one I know).
I do agree though, Epic just doesn’t have the features Steam does. I don’t think their barrage of free games idea is a bad one, but it feels like an afterthought when it’s just not as fun to play them there. (Better Linux support would be nice too, at least there’s Heroic.)
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
They have achievements on all games, it’s been the case for two years
Tellore@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just checked this again, first for game I had there for free but bought later on Steam - City of Brass - and couldn’t find achievements anywhere. I then looked into Fortnite and League of Legends - also no achievements. I then found there is “my achievements” link somewhere in my profile, from where I could click “browse games with achievements” and turns out, from few dozens games I own there not a single one has achievements.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Blame the devs, any game on-boarded after March 9th 2023 must have the same achievements as on other platforms and for games on-boarded prior to that the devs have been able to add achievements since early 2022
www.exophase.com/platform/epic/page/27/?q=&sort=a…
Over 1300 games with achievements