There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Klanky ,
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

I don’t get why anyone pays attention to these wannabe Hollywood producers like him or Todd Howard. The most interesting and innovative things in gaming are NOT happening in the AAA space.

PunchingWood ,

What he really meant to say was that he shilled out for the bags of money

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Imagine if Steam and EGS were hotdog vendors.

Steam offers all the condiments; mustard, ketchup, mayo, relish, onions, pickles, tomatoes, bacon, cheese, chili, etc.

EGS is just a plain hotdog. No condiments. You’re lucky to even get a bun.

Both are equal price.

Which hotdog are you getting?

Now imagine that the plain hotdog guy keeps whining that nobody wants his hotdogs.

Corvid ,

The hotdog vendor keeps going on about how he’s the good guy because he pays more to the sausage suppliers. As if that’s at all relevant to his customers.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

He also tried suing the fruit vendor because they wouldn’t let them sell their hotdogs on their Apple cart.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Epic games store occasionally gives you a free hotdog every week. But it also contains no fixings, and you gotta eat it at the counter.

Jerkface ,

I eat that free hotdog every week, then go across the street and buy another one.

AlphaOmega ,

I have a 100 plus free hotdogs

whenyellowstonehasitsday ,

yesssssssss, but the second hot-dog vendor wants to offer customers lower prices, and the first says they can't because otherwise those hot dogs will be banned from their stand, and the second responds by attempting to throw piss water-balloons at any passers by, or something

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

the second hot-dog vendor wants to offer customers lower prices, and the first says they can’t because otherwise those hot dogs will be banned from their stand

It’s more accurate to say that the plain hotdog vendor wants to sell the other vendor’s hotdogs at a lower price at his own stand, thereby undercutting the sales of the first vendor for their own hotdogs.

whenyellowstonehasitsday ,

not really, unless you're implying the fancy hotdog vendor paid for the development of said hotdogs, which they didn't

games don't belong to valve

L0rdMathias ,

do nothing

Win

The gaben method works again

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

EGS is worse than Steam was 10 years ago. Its only useful for piling free games from the store that I’ll never play.

XeroxCool ,

Oh yeah, I don’t have time to play my main Elite:Dangerous profile anymore but I’ll totally have time to use my free Epic license to plaster my name across the galaxy on deep space exploration.

Jerkface ,

Why can’t you just draw dicks like a normal person?

doodledup ,

I gave Epic’s store a chance but even after all this time it’s still shit and very far from feature parity with Epic. 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.

Albbi ,

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 ,

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

jagermo ,

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.

thejoker954 ,

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.

BedbugCutlefish ,
@BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ampersandrew ,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

It’s an open question whether Epic’s limited success is a result of the company’s failure to “press its advantage,” as Pitchford opines, or just a sign that Steam’s massive entrenched network effects have proven more resilient than he expected.

It’s not. EGS doesn’t solve any problems that Steam leaves on the table to be solved. Customers have no reason to shop at EGS when Epic takes its thumb off the scale.

conciselyverbose ,

It doesn’t solve most of the problems Steam already solved either.

Graphy ,

Not only that but it’s a worse user experience all around.

I fucking hate the EGS and Xbox stores for browsing new games. Most of the time you’ll get an animated video that’s not game footage and two screenshots that don’t tell you shit.

Not to mention that the formatting is so bad that the client requires you to basically be in fullscreen but you’ve still gotta scroll a mile down to get any info.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

Not to mention that the formatting is so bad that the client requires you to basically be in fullscreen but you’ve still gotta scroll a mile down to get any info.

For Xbox, that’s because the PC app is literally copy/pasted from the Xbox console app. Hell, it probably is the same universal app since that was a big Microsoft push to have more apps available on the consoles and Windows Phone.

XeroxCool ,

Lol I thought it was just my advanced age of 33 that made it difficult to understand a game from the Xbox previews. A majority of screenshots look like garbage once you’re not in character and the store highlights that.

Katana314 ,

The funny thing is, I feel like it’s not so hard to navigate Steam for particular problems that consumers would like a solution to, but Valve has been ignoring or considers beyond them. For some people, those individual problems form the root of their buying decision. You’d have to beat them at something before you beat them at everything.

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Even ea’s origin tried to offer more, with the overlay chat, etc. Epic did none of that.

Steam also offers community pages, user reviews, and other features that allows players to discuss their games.

AceFuzzLord ,

If anything, the only thing that other stores have that Steam doesn’t would be games not on Steam. Even then, half of the time, they’re either itch(dot)io exclusive indie titles or shitty triple AAA titles.

ampersandrew ,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

When I buy on GOG, I know I’m getting a game DRM-free. They muddied that a tad with how they handle online multiplayer, but for the most part, I get more value from their store for that. It’s a huge reason why I’d choose their store, because they’re solving a problem for me that Steam does not.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •