>>737118197
Epic had the benefit of hindsight when it comes to improving the storefront, where they could just replicate some of the basic features Steam or GoG have. Instead they were as slow as molasses at adding those basic features that by the time they add no-brainer stuff like shopping cart nobody cares anymore. It's like a self-sabotage or something.

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I will never understand Epic:
I have it installed because i want the fre egames and teh store is still fucking SHIT.
Where is the progress?
GOG, a shop with 1% budget of Epic, has a better storefront, profilesystem etc. than EGS. FUCKING GOG!
I use the EGS sporadicly to look if they changed anything and in the 5+yeasrs since i started looking at the store few times a month it never changed substanially.

>>737119323
I have no idea what happened. Tim Sweeney had the golden opportunity back in 2018-2020 to rally EGS as an alternative store to Steam and he fucked it up. He had the Fortnite money, Epic was on the up thanks to all the Hollywood deals with Unreal Engine and the dude hired a lot of devs while investing in a bunch of game companies to release on the store. Even without the blunders such as the constant free games and exclusivity deal Epic could've at least had the resources to give some modicum of effort into the actual app itself to smooth things out for customers but they didn't.

One of the more amusing things is that Gabe Newell did an interview about Steam years before the Epic store was created, and the topic of piracy came up. Newell said he viewed piracy as a service problem, and that Steam was designed to compete with even free games by offering better services.

So of course the idiots at Epic decided they just needed free games to compete with Steam.

>>737120184
No vision, or a thwarted one which is more logical since he has made it obvious he wants to appeal to devs rather than customers

>>737118197
a thing cannot be exponentially worse or many times less.
https://timesless.com/

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>>737120184
There was an article from Bloomberg a week ago that pretty much said Tim Sweeney changes his mind on a whim and wants to do a billion different things at once. Like he wanted Epic to have a mobile app store rushed out in just a few months after winning their Google court case so they threw a boatload of money at it and diverted resources away from the PC store.

I'm sure the rank and file Epic employees know EGS sucks but Timmy has the attention span of a cat and can't stick to anything.

>>737119323
The idea was never to offer a better product to customers, the idea was to force people to switch to their shitty platform by offering bribes to developers so they released their games exclusively there. Why would you spend time and money to make something better when you can just throw money around and hope success will follow (it didn't)

>>737118197
Good riddance

>>737119009
They were pretty open and clearly communicated that they never intended win over customers with features. Their goal was to undercut steam with lower publishing costs and give studios/publishers more control over pricing and sales while negotiating contracts that kept released games off steam for a certain amount of time.

It was insanely bold to bet the entire farm on this idea. Potentially retarded. This is what every platform tried befote them. Give a terrible experience but lock their games behind it forcing people to use shitty software.

It being the worst platform ever released, lacking completely basic functions is just the icing on the cake.

>>737121520
Hell of a plan. Steam was already entrenched by the time EGS was online. Epic could've learned a thing or two about the store or how it ticks before challenging it head-on. Though I guess they did prepare. Steamspy was their attempt, to collect data of how Steam works, their monetization scheme, approximation of sales, etc. But their perspective was skewed, mainly due to the misunderstanding of the appeal of Steam and why developers stick to it and that skewed perception cost them dearly