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I get that Steam is where everything and everyone is at. And that the user experience and functionality is best there BUT having another player to try an compete with Steam is a good thing, right?

If anyone can try, it's the Fortnite Bank.

So, why the hate?

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Having healthy competition is a good thing and I've wished for a competitor to Steam for a long time until one day the monkey's paw curled and we got Epic Game Store. To sum it up:

  • Epic actively tries to introduce exclusivity deals to PC, something that goes very much against the nature of the platform. It is something we're supposed to be above on PC and let console players deal with. PC gamers simply don't want fragmentation in the market. We hate all the different shitty launchers publishers are making for the same reason too.
  • Epic has a very hostile attitude towards Linux. Their anti cheat for example by default detects the mere fact of using Linux as a hack. For a long time if their anti cheat was included it was an absolute no go on Linux. Their store also works like crap on Linux, if at all.
  • EGS lacks necessities for then to call themselves a good store like reviews, good support and refund policies, ease of mod support, wishlists, etc.
  • Their UI is just plain bad.

But the main point is the first one. If they bothered making a good store they wouldn't need to make most of PC gamers angry by introducing exclusivity deals, but they can't be bothered to do that, so they go for hostile competition instead at the detriment of the customers.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago

When they buy publishers, they had them actively remove Linux support, such as Rocket League

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also chinese conglomerate tencent is the 2nd largest shareholder of epic (35%), after Tim Sweeney at 41%.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not to diss you, or take away from your argument, it's quite a good one.

But I do think EGS has reviews now. They suck but I they have some sort of review system now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't find reviews. What I did find was a 5 star based rating system which is not the same thing at all. With steam reviews the text is more relevant to me than if they did or did not recommend the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If you scroll below the stars, it has corporate reviews provided by opencritic. Which is what i confused with real reviews.

Honestly, the stars are better than ign and other craptastic critics.