gshurik
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Epic Games Storefront - A Good Incentive for Piracy
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Blackwing Lair Raider
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Can someone help me with this store lol? I cannot seem to figure out how to sort like in steam for RPG, Action etc or how to put items in a shopping cart?!?! I mean I am somewhat of an idiot but I would like to think not this stupid. If anyone has a sec please help lol. I search for RPG nothing comes up etc.
"If Steam would be both the cheap option and the feature-rich option, we'd not bother throwing money at people to make up for our severe disadvantages that our far superior competitor has lifted from our shoulders"
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Sweeny is burning a lot of good will his company has built up. I bet a lot of the "cost savings" are going to end up getting pushed onto the customers in the form of higher fees for payment processing. It looks like this is getting Steam to give a bit better cut to devs, so all his fuckery has accomplished something.
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Big Phoenix
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Vorph
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Why should it?
Almost all of that should have been done before they even thought about rolling it out, and maybe they could have at least attempted to compete with Steam in some way besides buying shit up with Fortnite money. "Competition" would still be a term used very loosely though, since even for the very distant future there's still no promise of anything remotely comparable to Steamworks.
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I'm pretty much done with the Epic store exclusive thing. I won't buy any game that is released as an Epic exclusive, and I this point I'll probably never buy anything off their store. I despise arbitrary exclusives. A company like Microsoft/Sony/Ubisoft/EA that payed for a game publishing it on their own platform is one thing, but Epic paying other companies for exclusivity to prop up their shitty store and calling it 'competition' is a bridge too far.
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meStevo
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Dandai
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Yeah, as a business I can’t fault Epic’s behavior. As a consumer, I find it reprehensible and short sighted.
If they’d just waited 6 months and launched with more features than a search bar, people wouldn’t be nearly as off-put by their exclusivity BS. But now they have to maintain both a live support team and a development team that must spend exponentially more time verifying their builds won’t break anything in the live environment.
I’m sure they did the calculations and determined that they’d lose more money by waiting than if they launched feature-lite. Or maybe that Fortnite money made them think they’re invincible? Hell, maybe they are and we’re the only whiny faggots that even consider this shit.
If they’d just waited 6 months and launched with more features than a search bar, people wouldn’t be nearly as off-put by their exclusivity BS. But now they have to maintain both a live support team and a development team that must spend exponentially more time verifying their builds won’t break anything in the live environment.
I’m sure they did the calculations and determined that they’d lose more money by waiting than if they launched feature-lite. Or maybe that Fortnite money made them think they’re invincible? Hell, maybe they are and we’re the only whiny faggots that even consider this shit.