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

What's wrong with Epic's thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Other than the fact it's full of Chinese spyware?

Let's see...

The interface sucks.

The app is barely stable and crashes randomly.

Absolutely zero thoughts on Linux gaming.

Unusable communities.

I'm sure others can give more reasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

OK that's fair.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For starters, they put so little developments money into EGS that they went two years without a shopping cart, a feature that effectively every other online store has and could be custom coded properly in a day