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[Gamezone]

Because it seems like it. The roadmap on Trello is basically dead. They never release new features to the store. Ubisoft left their exclusivity deal, and they still doesn't have good publisher support. Yet they keep giving us free games every week for some reason.

 

[Generic]

And a cashback system, too.

 

[Baemono]

Yes

 

[El Hee-Ho]

Dunno about Tim but it sure works for me.

 

[R3TRO]

EGS, that's a name I haven't heard in a while.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Who knows what their plan is. I recently finished Dredge on Steam Deck which Tim gave me for free and it was great tho. Thanks Fortnite zoomers and uncle Tim.

 

[Magic Carpet]

The Store part works just fine. Download one of the free games and it fires up just as fast as Steam.
Games even get updated in the library.
I no longer have issues with EGS. I just don't go there to find platform stuff like achievements and friends.

 

[Rentahamster]

Apparently

 

[Mengy]

It sure seems so. Not a great strategy when Steam is your competition.

 

[Zacfoldor]

If it's this hard for Epic to fix EGS imagine how hard it will be for M$ to "fix" Windows for gaming.

 

[Dr.D00p]

At least until they run out of 'Rogue Like' games.

Seriously, it seems like its an endless, bottomless pit of a genre, presumably because its just about the easiest of games for small dev teams to do.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Who knows what their plan is.

 

[MrAlwaysRight]

The stores fine, beyond 'it's not steam' i don't know what people's issue is, it's perfectly serviceable, download speeds are great.

 

[SScorpio]

The stores fine, beyond 'it's not steam' i don't know what people's issue is, it's perfectly serviceable, download speeds are great.

That's the issue, it's just basic. It took them years to add a cart.

Being able to see which of your friends have and/or played a game on the store page is nice. Seeing user reviews on that platform rather than kicking people over to opencritic would be nice.

If Epic wants to beat Steam. They need to offer features Steam has had for years. It's not just a store but a community.

 

[CliffBronger]

I've been saying this for years.
The store is an absolute abomination like it's still an alpha build.

 

[Honey Bunny]

Yeh it feels vaguely like a ponzi that will collapse any second then u remember 90pc of the recent games are anonymous shit no ones heard of and u feel better again

 

[Gamezone]

The Store part works just fine. Download one of the free games and it fires up just as fast as Steam.
Games even get updated in the library.
I no longer have issues with EGS. I just don't go there to find platform stuff like achievements and friends.

Well, we are able to launch games in this launcher. I don't see how they will get people to choose their launcher when they never add new features.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You don't like cOmPeTiTiOn?

 

[jshackles]

Sergey Galyonkin (creator of Steam Spy) worked at Epic as the Director of Publishing Strategy, and helped launch the game store. He left in 2023, and to my knowledge wasn't ever replaced.

There are open positions like this one:

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/careers/jobs/5657771004

But this looks more like a design UX role, rather than an overall strategy of the Game Store. So my guess is, they're not really planning on improving things and will just keep doing the same thing they've been doing.

 

[Denton]

Sergey Galyonkin (creator of Steam Spy) worked at Epic as the Director of Publishing Strategy, and helped launch the game store. He left in 2023, and to my knowledge wasn't ever replaced.

Still insane to me that Galyonkin of all people, the guy should should have known more than anyone about why Steam was successful, completely 100% fucked up Epic's strategy and focused on completely wrong things.