Epic Games Store now open!

AHarvey said:
Have you ever been involved in product development? doesn't sound like it.

Yes, they've had a product out for several years but it's only recently they've decided to really push it.

Yes, they could have thrown hundreds of thousands at it and launched it complete. Would it have been ready to compete with Steam at the time they wanted it to? No. Would it have guaranteed a return on investment? maybe but it's a big gamble.

By doing it the way they are they have proven it's a viable product already and worthy of further investment. It's getting a lot of attention, fans and critics are saying what is missing and they are actively working on it.

I do find this butthurt from the steam fans towards Epic rather funny :D The only valid point against it is the exclusive direction they've gone.
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Excuses, excuses. If they want to convince people to use their store voluntarily instead of forcing them by bribing devs, they could have at least made sure it had the absolute basic functionality like offline mode, but they didn't even do that. Yes they are still actively developing it, offline mode was just added, but as a whole Epic store simply offers no added value to customers whatsoever. Maybe in a few years it will, boo hoo. But right now, epic exclusivity means paying more for getting less in exchange.

And yes the exclusivity is the one point of contention people have with them, so you and I actually agree.
 
Paul_cz said:
And yes the exclusivity is the one point of contention people have with them, so you and I actually agree.
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Beat me to it... the exclusivity thing is exactly the whole problem... otherwise it's just yet another company launching a subpar run-of-the-mill game store platform, who cares?

(Well okay there's also the whole signing over of your details including potentially payment details to Tencent, who have a less than stellar reputation and security record)
 
All they had to do was not bribe for exclusives and I think it would have had a better reception than origin etc. due to the free game every month deal.

gog had a good reception without the exclusivity BS!!.
 
uncle_rufus said:
Beat me to it... the exclusivity thing is exactly the whole problem... otherwise it's just yet another company launching a subpar run-of-the-mill game store platform, who cares?

(Well okay there's also the whole signing over of your details including potentially payment details to Tencent, who have a less than stellar reputation and security record)
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Yeah tencent owning 40% of epic does not inspire lot of confidence either. But, there are lot of areas that Steam could be improved (general UI, for example) and Epic could have capitalized on that, come to market with something great that people would like to use simply because it is useful. Sadly that has yet to happen.

chrcoluk said:
All they had to do was not bribe for exclusives and I think it would have had a better reception than origin etc. due to the free game every month deal.

gog had a good reception without the exclusivity BS!!.
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Yeah the free game program is cool and customer friendly way to compete. Shame they had to sully it with the exclusives and lack of functionality.
 
Paul_cz said:
Yeah tencent owning 40% of epic does not inspire lot of confidence either. But, there are lot of areas that Steam could be improved (general UI, for example) and Epic could have capitalized on that, come to market with something great that people would like to use simply because it is useful. Sadly that has yet to happen.
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Exactly... that would be how to compete for real... and it would have been similar in my mind to Discord; at one point it seemed like everyone was on TeamSpeak or Mumble and then suddenly Discord picked up with all this nice features and slick design etc. and it felt like practically overnight by word of mouth people switched to it
 
The journalism has been very poor, I dont believe all the journalists have not seen the negative feedback, so its like they stuck in their cosy little world with developers (sort of like how hardware reviewers stuck in their world with the vendors), that article seems to be written purely from the publisher/dev point of view rather than consumer.
 
Paul_cz said:
...leave it to a game journalist to completely misunderstand and misrepresent the issue
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I think the main problem is there seems to be a bunch of console playing millennials in the mainstream media chirping in with quiet frankly, no idea what they are talking about.

To be looking at this from a simple "Well, competition is good" mindset is completely missing the point.

We will remember those who are cosying up with Epic right now and if this does go pear shaped like many feel, those who have grabbed the cash deserve all they get.
 
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