For as much as people like Steam, their storefront and app is a pile of simultaneously over and under engineered shit.
So I don’t think this will really accomplish much for Epic.
Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more
Submitted 2 weeks ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Still shite
bhamlin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh no, rival game stores realize that they need to be better than steam to compete against steam? Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?!?
It’s almost like their shitty games aren’t enough to draw in sales. Almost like bringing down prices to where people are willing to pay them might actually convince people to spend money.
Weird.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They still don’t have user reviews? What a joke of a store.
Anyway, time to get my weekly freebiea
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 week ago
The v2 launcher will supposedly open up 5x faster on average upon cold boots, while restoring it from the system tray will be 6.5x faster on average. That’s a huge improvement, but keep in mind that Epic got these numbers from a ridiculous test bench comprised of a 32-core AMD Threadripper, an RTX A6000, and 128GB of RAM. Not exactly consumer-grade hardware, especially during these times.
So, we can expect, at best, 1.2x faster reponse. I bet it will still be a piece of shit unreal app that’s little more than yet another electron
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No official trailers or screenshots? Seems like it was leaked instead of unveiled by Epic themselves.
I’d like to see at least a video showing how the new interface works.
LemmyTellYou@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
With Discord losing some popularity recently, I think the best thing they could do is create some sort of hybrid platform with connected apps (ie your profile also having a snapshot of Steam, PSN, Bnet, Microsoft etc)
Maybe even partner with more niche games/companies