It seems so far like it's just a period of exclusivity. Rebel something-or-other is there for 12 months. Ashen is coming to Windows Store at some point on Game Pass. I guess the others will eventually, too.
Epic Games Store now open!
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So now we need
GoG
Uplay
Blizzard launcher
Steam
Fortnite store
Origin
And discord store
Ya no thanks I'll stick to steam far to many launchers and neither of them offer anything unique or better to steam ( apart from discord I suppose)
Also steam already do great prices well at least when they have sales and due to how good steam sales actually are I can't see any of these being a threat to steam
GoG
Uplay
Blizzard launcher
Steam
Fortnite store
Origin
And discord store
Ya no thanks I'll stick to steam far to many launchers and neither of them offer anything unique or better to steam ( apart from discord I suppose)
Also steam already do great prices well at least when they have sales and due to how good steam sales actually are I can't see any of these being a threat to steam
Currently I have ..
Uplay (for the Division and Assassins Creed titles)
EA Origin (for the Battlefield titles)
Steam
To be quite honest, and maybe this is against the grain, but launchers dont bother me really. Its not like I sit there with all of them open. If I want to play AC or the Division I open Uplay, when I'm finished I close it. If I want to play Battlefield I open Origin, when I'm finished I close it. If I want to play something on Steam, I open Steam, when I'm finished I close it. Never had any trouble with any launchers, Steam or otherwise.
I only really use Steam these days as a launcher, prices are way way cheaper on cdkeys/kinguin etc, so I buy them there and add to Steam. Used to use Steam chat a lot but these days I use Discord for everything, so all the various launchers are just much the same to me.
Uplay (for the Division and Assassins Creed titles)
EA Origin (for the Battlefield titles)
Steam
To be quite honest, and maybe this is against the grain, but launchers dont bother me really. Its not like I sit there with all of them open. If I want to play AC or the Division I open Uplay, when I'm finished I close it. If I want to play Battlefield I open Origin, when I'm finished I close it. If I want to play something on Steam, I open Steam, when I'm finished I close it. Never had any trouble with any launchers, Steam or otherwise.
I only really use Steam these days as a launcher, prices are way way cheaper on cdkeys/kinguin etc, so I buy them there and add to Steam. Used to use Steam chat a lot but these days I use Discord for everything, so all the various launchers are just much the same to me.
Soldato
imagine all games started releasing on other platforms apart from steam, Steam starts to become dead! Valve pull the plug on steam We all loose our games 200+ titles LOL
To be fair, I only play about 6 of my 200+ titles anyway, all the others I've already completed or gotten bored of, so as long as I had enough time to finish those ones off (or each game was playable without steam needing to be online) I'd be ok with that
Soldato
I don't care how many launchers I have. Every one of them is set so it doesn't load automatically upon loading Windows. I just load them up as and when I want to play something.
Associate
Does anyone here use Launchbox? Tempted to give it a whirl tonight after work. Apparently it gives you all your games in one launcher, claims to work for Steam/GOG/Origin and you can manually add games and ROMS/MS-DOS.
https://www.howtogeek.com/345677/or...-game-collection-in-one-place-with-launchbox/
According to this, https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/43493-importing-fortnite-into-launchbox/, you can also add games from Epic Games to it.
https://www.howtogeek.com/345677/or...-game-collection-in-one-place-with-launchbox/
According to this, https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/43493-importing-fortnite-into-launchbox/, you can also add games from Epic Games to it.
I dont get it, surely it still needs to open (or already have open) Steam/Origin/Uplay etc? I'm not sure I see what the point of it is, is it just so that you have all the shortcuts in one place, because I already have a games folder with my shortcuts in. Its not replacing the launchers themselves is it?
Just confused as to what the difference is between launchbox and my folder of shortcuts?
Soldato
That's how it works yeah. Just pretty much shortcuts all in one place, so you'll still require the applications. I don't use it for modern gaming but I use it for retro gaming.
Soldato
All you are doing is looking at prices for you - the gamer. By doing so you're completely disregarding the cut steam/valve takes, which is quite greedy. The Epic store takes a much lesser cut and gives more back to the developer - competition is a great thing and I personally hope it takes off as it means lower prices all round.
Steam is a constipated, antiquated mess these days and I for one am sick of using the program. One thing they have got right though is their refund policy so I hope the Epic store takes that onboard.
Can't blame other companies for using their own stores/portals, business is business and they don't have to suffer a 30% cut by using their own storefront primarily. If Valve lowered this the situation would slowly change.
Caporegime
Pretty much like how all games worked before steam.
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As someone who has probably spent close to a grand on the classic titles alone since they came about I feel like the last year or two in particular they have lost their way a bit.
As a company/business they have to grow but they have spread themselves too thin and quality control on newer releases is somewhat lacking.. its the sort of stuff I'd gotten used to seeing on steam (basically games that have no business being there)
Their niche is DRM free vintage games and a couple exclusive franchises (Witcher), their going to come a cropper trying to be another steam, origin, etc.
If you look at the various discussions that have been had about grey market sellers over the years, I think you'll see that most people (rightly or wrongly) don't seem to care about how much the developer gets. I'm still unsure how this is good competition if they have exclusives that I can't buy elsewhere at a competing price.
Soldato
Then you will have to lose gaming time while it inevitably updates everything once launched.
It'd be nice if there was some open source launcher that pulled all of these stores together and consolidated all of your libraries and social connections in one place. Obviously maintaining it would be an impractically huge job with every platform updating all the time, but I can't think of any other way end users can get the best deal without having millions of launchers.
If they passed on the savings they made not using Steam to the consumer then people might be more willing to use another platform. I'm not going to pay just as much, if not more, to buy their game from say Epic store when I can buy it from Steam instead, often times cheaper. It's not on the consumer to worry about developer finances and what they have to pay Valve.
I personally don't mind installing another launcher because none of them run on start up, take a few minutes at most to update if needed and run automatically when I click on the game I want to play on my desktop. I simply go to the place that offers me the best deal.
Soldato
That's only really an issue if you play MP games that get often updates, like RB6 Siege. I have RB6 installed but haven't played it for ages, just loaded Uplay and noticed 12GB to download, which is fine and I'll let it download now but I never planned on playing that anyway. I tend to play offline more than anything. So even if I have to update one game, I can just play something else installed until it's updated. I have so many games installed I should never run out of anything to play but, I still sit here often and wonder what I should play
.Steam is used daily, so updates always happen on Steam.
I do the same as them (I dont have my launchers starting with Windows) , doesnt lose me time per se though, I turn my PC on in the morning, fire up a launcher, then while I'm doing a bit of the housework, walking the dogs and making breakfast and am actually free to play , whatever game it was is updated and ready to go. Has worked brilliantly for me for many years doing it that way.
As an added advantage, I get terribly addicted to sitting and gaming all the time while other aspects of life pass me by, but having to update whatever game I am going to play on day X ensures that I get off my butt and do the housework and whatever else needs doing. I just know that if I was all ready to play whenever I want, I'd end up getting up in the morning at the weekend and immediately gaming and then game right through til bed throughout the weekend !
Associate
Apart from we both know they won't lower the price just because epic charge them less than steam they will keep the price the same as steam and make an extra 5% profit or whatever epic charges less than valve a business won't lower their price just because the platform charges them less per sale so having 1 or 100 launches won't benefit us at all
Don't mind the different launchers if they would actually bother to compete with steam feature wise (community features, overlay, controller config thing and so on). Not really interested in them when the only feature is "exclusive games" and the client offers no benefits.