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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)

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[-] doodledup@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I gave Epic's store a chance but even after all this time it's still shit and very far from feature parity with Steam. There's not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.

[-] BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I never gave it a chance, as theit practice of paying for exclusivity is infuriating to me.

Make your shit better. Hell, make it comparable, and charge a lower cit (so devs make more), and I'd support then.

Paying to make the market more closed off sucks.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 months ago

I gave it a chance when they took over Rocket League. The damn platform doesn't even support profile avatars while Steam did. So to get a basic nice feature working all you had to do was... not use their platform.

They still don't have avatars.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

They absolutely slaughtered rocket league. They even put the dumb cyber truck in it lmao

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Oh really? I haven't played since they disabled trading items.

I mean, the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars, and you'll probably get better FPS due to the lowered polygon count! But yeah... no bueno.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars

It's actually quite close to the real version.

So no.

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I haven't seen it, but I thought it might be better than the Grog or Scarab.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

it might be better than the [...] Scarab

Surely you jest

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I went and played a few games. You're right, the cybertruck is the worst looking car in the game by far.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

FWIW, my understanding is that the owner of Epic is actively anti-Linux, so your third feature is a unlikely at best. The fourth was only remotely likely due to market share.

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah i get and play the free games from there, but they don't seem to want to do more than the bare minimum for the storefront so I won't purchase anything through them.

[-] doodledup@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

It's beyond me how they can affors all of these free games and exclusive but not a single capable developer to make this platform beyond just the bare minimum.

[-] jagermo@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago

Heroic launcher works pretty well to get epic and gog games in the deck. But yes, support could be better, especially since i remember unreal tournament being Linux friendly early on.