I am waiting for the day that they hide our "free"-library behind a subscription.

They sure aren't making money from me. Thanks for the free games I guess.

I have hundreds of free games on it.

I just object to digital only games in principle, unless at a huge discount.

Even my Steam account is like a thousand games from bundles.

They had GTA V for free at some point

Free games were a great way to "get us there" but not a great way to monetize us. They haven't come up with that. I've bought exactly 3 games on Epic, two that I price-camped because they were too expensive. The free games didn't influence my decision.

The third was a free game where they had the best price around on a "more complete edition". (Pathfinder Kingmaker). I feel like they could've done more of that if they wanted to monetize the free.

But what all these game stores need is to change the rules. GoG tried by making their Galaxy app pretty good at importing others' apps. I feel like someone (Epic? lol) could go all-in supporting and helping maintain an open-source game management app like Playnite, so people who use that app would put Epic on the same tier as Steam, and then Epic would just have to win on an even playing field.

And if Epic provided a "find your price in all services" extension to an app like Playnite, and then just made sure to be $1 cheaper on everything, they'd dominate the market.

Or they could just continue doing what they're doing and keep losing money.

For those of you that don't play rocket league, it is a prime example of just how badly epic is willing to fuck up a game for a dollar. Literally Mr. Crabs.

This December 5th, they are removing player to player trading from RL. Why would they alienate such a core faction of their player base?

Fortnite.

Apparently, that game is getting a racing mode and they want you to be able to drive your rocket league car in Fortnite. Apparently, the only possible way to make this happen is to eliminate player trading.

Now, every single high value item like alpha boost ($5-7k) or a white hate ($???k) is worthless. Now, if there is a particular item you really want, you can wait for rng to drop it, or nrg for it to show up in the shop where you can expect to pay a minimum of x10 credit it would have cost you on the trading market.

I expect a class action lawsuit. They locked player to player trading behind a purchase of credits. They made hundreds of thousands of players pay for a feature and are now removing that feature in a blindly idiotic money grab.

FUCK EPIC GAMES.

I mean they made the app using a fucking game engine. Who knows what stupid idea they will come up with next.

Exactly.

The only time I ever look at the store tab in Steam is when there's a sale on.

Otherwise, all I ever see and use is my library.

Steam has been improved over decades, epic has to play catch-up

But it's free and-or exclusive. I'm honestly terrified of how much money they have from Fortnite+UE they can buy their consumers into surrendering, and failing at it.