Imagine if hey spent those 10 years improving the store to actually BE another option to steam.
Instead of trying to coax people away from steam with free games
Instead of manipulating people and legal systems with moral blackmail to try and force steam down to 12%
Instead of diving deeper into fortnite being the only game they focus on
Instead of buying exclusives

I can think of a couple things that would make me switch from Steam to EGS.
>human store curators
>accurate tag/genre system
>devs get penalized if they apply inaccurate tags
>users can filter any number or combination of tags
>early access-like system but limited to 2 years
>mandatory refunds if the dev can't deliver the early access promises
Basically exact same library as Steam just allow me to properly filter the shovelware.

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>>737129286
>The Epic Games Store is almost 10 years old
Its been this shit for so long?

I will now straw grasp for any reason to get anons to hate steam for the rest of this thread.

[STOP DOING THIS RETARDED AND GAY SHIT NEWS]

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>>737129286
>The Epic Games Store Will Never Be as Good as Steam
>And that's a GOOD thing. Here's why:

Let me know when that 12% makes the games cheaper for ME

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another "kick the ladder down" article from one of gabe's minions

>>737129286
Kek

Good. Hope all the Epic shills killed themselves years ago

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Can you imagine giving a fuck about the opinion of this thing? Good god.

>>737130163
>refunds
That would fuck over the store owner because refunds cost money. Zero chance of that happening.

>>737129286
IGN will never be as good as GameSpy.

Honestly I don't get the competition.
It works just fine. Load the client, launch my game, done.
Do people actually use steam friends lists and shit? I don't like how steam moved to electron recently, cause it's performance got markedly worse. But I think they're pretty much equal in terms of "I can launch a game from this".
Admittedly, I do leave steam on 24/7 and only launch egs when I'm playing an EGS game, maybe that speaks to how I don't even consider it, idk.

Epic had every opportunity on the planet to make their storefront competitive with Steam and they simply didn't. The only thing they tried was bribing people with free games, and even then all people did was collect their free shit and go back to Steam.

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>>737130531
What i want is to force devs to set up achievable goals for their early access game. Ideally a game that is content complete but needs 12-18 months of polish. No more launching into early access with a concept prototype that would get them laughed out of every pitch meeting.

Not something like pic related. A list of promises that would take even a well funded and experienced studio a decade to make.

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I don't understand, at the very least you could have copied steam
Competing with steam would take a lot of money but epic had massive "fuck you" money

Timmy genuinely thought taking a little brother route would be his winning strategy lol. Show up, cry that it's unfair the competition gets all the attention, scream and whine that you should be favoured despite putting in zero effort, then after years of failure claim it's not your fault because the other guy had an early start. Pathetic.

>>737130163
All that just to say you're never switching.

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>>737130486
easy there with the jump scares anon..

>>737129286
The problem with EGS is there's not really a way to build a community within it. That's what keeps people on Steam and away from EGS or Galaxy.

I’ve gotten like 15 games I wanted for free, and far cry 5 for a fiver. I’d say it’s done it’s job

>>737131020
I think their strategy is buying a customer base with free games instead of actually improving the store. That's why nobody buys games there. Their store is just shit.

>>737130223
it's 7 year old, but the retard said "almost 10" to make it sound even a bigger failure lol

I don't care, GoG also doesn't match steams feature list. It doesn't have to.
I buy the game, I install the game and I play the game.
The time I spend on step 1 and 2 is less than 1% of the time I spend on 3. It doesn't matter. Not even a little bit.
The whole obsession with EGS is bullshit.

I never understood how companies can be that fucking retarded
>massive example of something working by simply providing decent enough service
>literally have the work cut out for you to be a potential competitor
>don't bother and make an inferior version all the way down
>fail
>"maybe the problem is that we aren't fucking the customer enough"

>>737131450
Because everyone wants to sell data because being a storefront is no longer viable commercially.

>>737131450
EGS was obsessed with Steam from the start.
Also don't compare GoG to the turd that is EGS. GoG wanted to have its own niche and do something good. Epic is a shitty service brought by a console kike who thought his corpo strategies would give him instant monopoly over PC gaming.

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>>737130970
Valve should withhold all funds until 2 weeks after the game is actually out. If early access is not supposed to be a way to crowdfund then the devs shouldn't need the funds, right?

>>737130690
Steam has a bunch of other useful features
Steam Reviews if you're checking something out, from actual people who bought the game and I can see how long they played it.
Steam Input is also another big draw, I can load up any game and get a working gyro setup from the community in a minute
All of this is built on top of Steam just to make it better, meanwhile what has Epic done for EGS?

>>737131557
this is the most idiotic thing I've read recently,
being able to take a cut on transactions is peak renteer economy scam
Apple does it, Google does it, Steam does it, Timmie wanted in on it, etc
this isn't about data no matter how you look at it, you're just spouting common wisdom slop, like 'data is the new oil', without understanding it

>>737131659
I forgot about steam input you're right, that's pretty good. Most games do work without it nowadays and it does cause me issues pretty often though cause it conflicts with me trying to use my controller without it and screeches at me.
I haven't read a text based review since like 2010, we have youtube now, why would I EVER want a review that doesn't include footage of the game in action?

>>737130254
[Heartwarming news]

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>>737131528
>I never understood how companies can be that fucking retarded
they're just retarded, it's that simple.

>>737131020
I feel like you've brought a lot of baggage into this take

>>737131621
In a couple of years AI will be good enough to handle all administrative tasks. Maybe then they'll have the means to actually enforce their rules.

>>737131742
A video review doesn't show how long the hack has actually played the game at time of review.
I've seen assloads where the video reviewer says things that are blatantly wrong (proving that they barely played the game)
on steam reviews, that'd succinctly show up as
>30 minutes playtime

>>737131450
simple
gog does its thing, it never tried to fight steam head on, or make it seems like they're the good guys while steam is the big bad villian
timmy has since day fucking one actively antagonized steam, hiring influencers and "gerrilla marketing" specialists to talk shit about it while introducing the one thing pc gaming never needed: exclusivity bullshit
plus trying its best to fuck compatibility with linux systems just because steam supports it, so games from its launcher won't run on the deck, consequences be damned
so yeah, fuck egs and fuck timmy tencent
go eat your rock collection, you baldy fuck

>>737131308
Its job is to make money by selling people games
They got 5 bucks from you in exchange for almost certainly more than 5 bucks of expense giving away those 15 free games you claimed
Doesn't really sound like a job well done to me

unironically if they had just made all games cheaper instead of free it would have worked better.

>>737129945
Stop being so antisemitic

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>>737131757
i love how he even start saying "we tried everything"
"we just couldn't crack the code"
few sentences later there's a list of everything they didn't try at all
they just went lol we'll buy into the ecosystem and PROFIT!
fucking hell man

>>737129286
it barely even tried.

Also, I have to say, GOG galaxy is also shit tier with EGS, since they purposefully removed steam integration and instead sided with Epic.

it could've been something.

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>>737130254
[Gay News] I'm still a gaytarded frogposter

>>737129286
It's odd, it looks like it's just a design/engineering issue or lack of features of the store app which you'd think they'd try to fix, but they don't
So they must have a different idea of what a store should be

Steam will never be dethroned because of the simple fact that it was the first store. They can create a literal, 100% better store than steam and people still won't change because they don't want to lose the games they already have on steam (and they don't want to have 2 stores installed).
The only real solution would be for the consumer to be able to transfer their game keys from one store to the other but that would be a licensing nightmare.

>>737131757
>314 comments
really curious to see what they were saying

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I like the Steam forums because I'm an old man who absolutely fucking REFUSES to use Discord.

>>737132730
the solution is simply time, over time other platforms will be forced
The more platforms are forced the more the aesthetic advantage of having all your games in one place is eliminated.
Same thing that happened with streaming, but you don't pay a subscription, you have to have a different launcher instead.
steam may well stay number 1, but it's going to stop being the one

>>737132730
Steam cultists are completely insane and won't play free games from any source. Direct download? Emulation? They are mentally incapable. There is no reaching them with anything but a bullet.

What if Epic openly had a 30 day refund policy like the law requires?

>>737132730
Steam will be dethroned within a year of Gaben passing. It’s clear from Valve’s glacial development pace and diminishing output of good software that Gabe’s having to tard wrangle his lazy team, and if the company has to continue without him then you can sure they’re going to sell out as quickly as possible. Once the service starts declining, consumers will be more receptive to migrating elsewhere.

>>737133386
Literally how the fuck do you propose to "force" people to buy from more than one store when they don't want to?

>>737133472
I emulate. I use downloads. I refuse to use Epic Gay Store because I know who Timmy is. Taking his "free games" is like taking candy from a man who raped your dog.

>>737129286
>And while it's kind of come a long way since then
They added a shopping cart in 10 years. Yeah, they came a long way since then.

>>737131757
I didn't even know Prime Gaming was a thing until just a few years ago. Even then they basically gave out literal who games through twitch. Granted I do have a decent library of GOG games now due to it.
Their own "store" also had an issue with outdated games. The Baldur's Gate 1+2 enhanced I had on it was completely untouched compared to the GOG versions.

>>737133692
the same way League of Legends did, they made their own launcher
same way timmie did, same way Blizzard does, etc
Bypassing the Steam cut is eventually worth it, and once you've done it once, you have the infrastructure to do it again.
the most likely end state is a few big stores, Steam being the biggest one and many launchers for companies that can afford it

>>737129286
It take them almost a decade to say the obvious.

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I'll switch to ESG the moment DLsite brings their catalogue over to them, unrestricted, uncensored, everything they have available for Japanese people available for us.

>>737133386
>>737134217
Funny that you say that, because every publisher under the sun has already ran off to create their own store, failed, and came back to Steam. EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Xbox, etc. Even Blizzard conceded and put Overwatch on Steam. i assume you're too young to know this

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>>737129286
I still have yet to hear a proper reason for why not having a proper search function for years is pro-publisher.

>>737131330
>I think their strategy is buying a customer base with free games instead of actually improving the store.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKOWcs8w54

>>737130254
[Uneventful news] Anon is buttmad

>>737134217
That has never worked and never will work. You don't solve the problem by persistently ignoring it (as Timmy just found out).

>>737132730
has it right: The only true way to prevent online stores from becoming pseudo-monopolies is to allow customers to move their libraries to a different store, and there's no way in hell that's going to happen.

>Opinion:

There are times when you don't need to preface your words.