Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

[cvv]

Sweeney is the most retarded dumbkopf in the industry, for years he stubbornly maintains the EGS doesn't need to be customer friendly like Steam, it can be barebones and basic and lame, what's important is to attract publishers and everything else is downstream.

And for years reality has been showing him what a BS take that is but he still doesn't budge.

What a fucking shame, Epic could've been an actual, serious competition to Steam which would be beneficial for consumers and the industry as a whole because healthy competition is always good. Instead EGS was a joke, is a joke and will be joke, probably forever coz I doubt it's still salvageable.

 

[Lacrymas]

Steam does have competition in the form of Humble Bundle, GameBillet, GamesPlanet, Fanatical etc. etc. and they are almost always cheaper than Steam, so Epic does less than nothing for customers because they actively hurt competition with their exclusivity bullshit. The Epic store has been and continues to be the most idiotic thing I've ever seen in any business ever.

 

[cvv]

Steam does have competition in the form of Humble Bundle, GameBillet, GamesPlanet, Fanatical etc. etc.

Key sellers is not the kind of competition that'd make Steam quaking in their boots. It's about as threatening as GOG. Plus oftentimes you can't buy addons, DLCs and MTX shit like skins in there, you can't buy Early Access games and I suspect for vast majority of normies these sellers are p. much invisible.

Don't get me wrong, Steam is just about the most benevolent master of a market segment I've ever seen but without proper competition you never know what's possible.

 

[markec]

Steam does have competition in the form of Humble Bundle, GameBillet, GamesPlanet, Fanatical etc. etc.

Key sellers is not the kind of competition that'd make Steam quaking in their boots. It's about as threatening as GOG. Plus oftentimes you can't buy addons, DLCs and MTX shit like skins in there, you can't buy Early Access games and I suspect for vast majority of normies these sellers are p. much invisible.

Don't get me wrong, Steam is just about the most benevolent master of a market segment I've ever seen but without proper competition you never know what's possible.

You can buy early access games and dlc in other stores and they are a issue to Steam since Steam put s 5000 keys limit for developers.

 

[cvv]

You can buy early access games and dlc in other stores

Where can you buy Early Access? I'm using mostly GMG, Humble and Gamesplanet and I've never seen any EA (at least the ones I was interested in).

P.S. There's sometimes EA on GOG but that's it.

 

[Lacrymas]

I don't know about all early access titles because the only ones I've ever bought are Gloomhaven and Last Epoch. They were indeed only on Steam, but I don't care much about early access. You can get DLCs on all stores that sell the main game, I think you are confusing that with the bundles on Humble Bundle and Fanatical, which indeed do not contain DLCs most of the time (they sometimes do). The "problem" with these sites is that they mostly offer Steam keys, which is not ideal, I prefer GOG, but sometimes they have GOG keys as well.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Humble Bundle, GameBillet, GamesPlanet, Fanatical etc

They all mainly sell Steam keys lmao top class competition

 

[Lacrymas]

They do, but it's cheaper, so what more do you want? It's not like we have a perfect option in terms of a storefront. GOG is probably the best in the sense that what you buy you 100% definitely own, but they have other issues and there's a whole Google doc dedicated to showing you how you are treated as a second-class citizen on GOG a lot of the time.

 

[cvv]

I think you are confusing that with the bundles on Humble Bundle and Fanatical, which indeed do not contain DLCs most of the time (they sometimes do).

Bought Surge 2 on GMG but couldn't buy the DLC, had to get it directly from Steam. And there were one or two other examples but can't remember nao. But yes, most DLCs are available on key sellers too.

But afaik MTX is not. Been playing Warframe for years, always had to buy shit in the in-game store or on Steam. Gaben is prolly raking pretty penny from MTX.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

They do, but it's cheaper, so what more do you want? It's not like we have a perfect option in terms of a storefront. GOG is probably the best in the sense that what you buy you 100% definitely own, but they have other issues and there's a whole Google doc dedicated to showing you how you are treated as a second-class citizen on GOG a lot of the time.

Competition to steam is a separate storefront. That's all.
Try giving the zoom store a go. Anemic catalogue but still has some oldies that even gog doesn't

 

[Lacrymas]

Epic is the competition to Steam we get. Enjoy it, I guess. Zoom is cool, but I'd have to check out their entire catalogue if I'm to find something because I can't think of anything at the top of my head that I don't have on GOG already.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Try giving the zoom store a go. Anemic catalogue but still has some oldies that even gog doesn't

Since no one give a flying fuck about epic anyway, let's hijack the thread a bit. What is this "zoom store" and what good old games they have?

 

[markec]

You can buy early access games and dlc in other stores

Where can you buy Early Access? I'm using mostly GMG, Humble and Gamesplanet and I've never seen any EA (at least the ones I was interested in).

P.S. There's sometimes EA on GOG but that's it.

Use https://isthereanydeal.com/ to check, not all EA games can be bought but I myself bought multiple ones.

Keep in mind that the key limit will probably factor in availability of titles.

 

[Lacrymas]

I use gg.deals because it has a better interface.

Try giving the zoom store a go. Anemic catalogue but still has some oldies that even gog doesn't

Since no one give a flying fuck about epic anyway, let's hijack the thread a bit. What is this "zoom store" and what good old games they have?

https://www.zoom-platform.com/

 

[ERYFKRAD]

good old games they have?

Who said anything about good though?

 

[cvv]

The collection of the Christmas free dailies this year has been the most pathetic one since EGS opened in 2018. Nothing but cheap noname indies nobody's ever heard of. It actually feels like someone at EGS is taking the piss.

 

[Kev Inkline]

The collection of the Christmas free dailies this year has been the most pathetic one since EGS opened in 2018. Nothing but cheap noname indies nobody's ever heard of. It actually feels like someone at EGS is taking the piss.

Not that I'm fan of any of them, but there's been at least 4 AA(A)ish titles included. But I agree, not much to write home about. Maybe Ghostunner might be fun, barring epileptic seizures.

 

[Venser]

The collection of the Christmas free dailies this year has been the most pathetic one since EGS opened in 2018. Nothing but cheap noname indies nobody's ever heard of. It actually feels like someone at EGS is taking the piss.

What great free games did Steam give you? Oh...

 

[Parsimonious cook]

The collection of the Christmas free dailies this year has been the most pathetic one since EGS opened in 2018. Nothing but cheap noname indies nobody's ever heard of. It actually feels like someone at EGS is taking the piss.

What great free games did Steam give you? Oh...

Arma: Cold War Assault

 

[cvv]

Just a reminder in previous years we got shit like PoE, Tyranny, Wolfenstein New Order, Kingdom Come, Alan Wake, Metro, This War of Mine, Death Stranding.

Yes most of them have been in deep sales but at least you've heard about those. This holiday run I've only heard about the old-ass Saint's Row.

 

[Modron]

The gravy train is running out of steam, epic games store still hasn't begun to produce profit. Old ass saint's row would be a decent gift they are handing out nuass soy's row.

 

[Lacrymas]

I remember getting all the nu- Tomb Raiders last year. But hey, free games. The issue right now imo is that Epic have an image problem. Everyone thinks the launcher will steal their private info.

 

[Elttharion]

If the leaks are correct the next free games are:

Jan 02: 20 Minutes Till Dawn

Jan 03: A Plague Tale: Innocence

Jan 04 - Jan 11: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

 

[taxalot]

Guardians of the Galaxy was a very surprising game for me to actually enjoy. I recommend it, even if you don't like Marvel.

 

[Lacrymas]

I like Marvel, I just don't like nu-Marvel and the cinematic universe. Guardians of the Galaxy (the movies) are surprisingly ok, though.