It would fine if they were trying to compete with Steam in an organic manner, on a feature-by-feature basis. Instead they've decided that customers don't matter and they only care about pursuing exclusivity deals with greedy publishers. Well, sorry Tim Sweeney, but people aren't going to keep using a glorified web browser to buy games if piracy comes with more convenience.
For reference, here's everything that's missing from the Epic Games launcher:
https://i.imgur.com/RmoCukI.jpg
Some of these aren't the most necessary features, but EGL somehow didn't even manage to include offline support and library sorting. Both of which are absolutely essential for any halfway decent launcher.
I am not sure what that means here.
Not great if so.
Hahahaha
Better served with third party programs
Better served with third party programs
Sucks
I return once again to third party programs -- any number will allow me to point it at a directory and say store that.
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What does curation even mean here?
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- Though I am not sure the net effect of early access is a positive one for the world at this point.
We seem to be discussing games OK here at this point.
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The lack of gifting does seem to be a missed trick.
As in clans?
Had to look up what Steam Inventory was. So the ability to resell microtransaction or farmed nonsense for real money. I wonder how many there ragged on the Diablo auction house however many years ago but if we must tolerate such things then again it would be a missed trick.
Is this not why we have the start button on a computer?
Some have noted that going to Epic right now means a lack of Linux support. Not sure how much one wants to get worked up about that but OK.
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Again not sure I care for the concept as a whole, though if people are silly enough to play such things then so be it. Another missed trick.
Onboard mod support is nice, as is easy installers for said same. As long as third parties exist though I am probably going to go with those.
Steam have had some howlers over the years as well. While incompetence is security is not something I like to see then for now I could see teething problems.
- Apparently they do have such things now.
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Them acting as a low rent publisher in an attempt to attract some to their store seems like a fairly standard breaking into a saturated market ploy. If some devs cut a bad deal with their pub then that is on them -- it is why you have people read over the contracts and make a good one.
I like stats more than most, and a lack of things might speak to the quality of a game more than a review. For what matters though (assuming it is multiplayer and how populated the servers are) there are usually other ways.
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As in poor Baltic states pay less if the publishers/devs care to offer that? Sucks but nothing I feel especially bad about.
Third party programs again would be the order of the day for capture/screenshots.
If it is not a stock feature of windows then some kind of streaming to in house devices is not terribly hard to achieve.
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So trophments again by any other name? I refer back to my previous reply.
A missed trick and one they should probably implement sooner rather than later.
I must admit I am a few years out of whatever happened to joy2key et al.
While I would not be terribly upset to see gamefaqs implode...
OK?
Some mentioned elsewhere the lack of user reviews. I would agree it speaks to a less than ideal mindset but if you can't be arsed to tap the game name into a search engine you deserve what you get really.
I like the option to run the version of my choosing and hope we get something, or at least a third party option. If LAN play is still dead, devs keep reasonably on top of things and don't release too many broken patches, most games here still are relatively new and thus not going to trouble mods then I will live without certain glitches being present.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel now I see if we are contemplating VR. Has that not died again?
Hopefully wishlists and gifting get implemented with each other. Given that it is a fairly easy to implement thing that only gains them money I am somewhat shocked to see it absent.
It was mentioned that Epic are not some wannabe and have the tools and talent to do things. Feature parity might have been nice but suitable for task seems to be fulfilled.
As far as Steam monopolies is it the case that you can play the latest and greatest of all the various things without Steam or going the pirate way? I used to use the humble bundle a lot but but most things there started to be increasingly tied to Steam so I skipped out.
I have no love for Steam (so much so that I don't have an account), I have no love for Epic or any other launcher that prevents me from reselling (or more accurately buying things others resold), lending and otherwise doing as I would for games. Some mentioned it might serve to fracture the market. I am OK with that. If one or both fail as a result I have an amusing sight to see. If they serve to sharpen the other then even better still.
Anyway to my mind launchers are just like those things that set resolution, quality and windowed or not, maybe a tiny mod selector as well, years back. This online "might as well be a rental" stuff sucks and I would rather it went away but to allow Steam to dominate... that is worse.
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