EGS could cure cure cancer and solve worldhunger and steamfags would still refuse to switch because they are addicted to making their steamlibrary bigger
I didn't make steam my identity, epic made hating them part of my identity when they delisted Unreal Tournament from every store, took 3 years to add a shopping cart, and complained about monopolies while monopolizing game releases for a while to their store. I go to GOG, Itchio, and myabandonware regularly. The only thing I even use epic for is free games, that I don't even install, I just want to add to a statistic that shows their store is not as profitable as investors want it to be and that people just use it for free games.
What if I don't like juggling stores/ launchers? I literally cannot remember what I have on my multitude of other launchers, I don't boot up multiple game launchers a day. Like, if you asked me what I have on my uPlay and Origin, I cannot remember. Watchdogs? ME Andromeda and DA Inquisition I guess? A Far Cry game? Juggling libraries is an awful feeling.
they haven't though. saying steam fans are like apple fans is copium. we're not on steam because we're attached to valve, we're on steam because we're attached to communities. ESG, like xbox live and PSN, have gone out of their way to not let communities foster because they see it as an uncontrollable environment
it's weird that some steam users have made that piece of software their identity
I still use it only for Fortnite and its free games, I have games also on GOG, Uplay where most of them are free and EA Launcher
As long as Epic does not make a more stable launcher and with the same or better services than Steam, I will not buy games from them
>EGS could cure cure cancer and solve worldhunger and steamfags would still refuse to switch because they are addicted to making their steamlibrary bigger
Why do you gays frame it like its a zero-sum game? They can both coexist. Google and Apple app-stores do. This isn't a fight to the death where only one can survive.
What are you talking about? You can't have Play Store on a iphone and you App store isn't on Android. Apple allows no other app stores at the moment and the vast majority of normies only use Play Store, other stores barely matter
Because Timmy Tencent treats it as a zero-some game. He doesn't want people to be able to use Steam; see all the devs he bribed to make their games EGS exclusive.
To be fair randy pitchford at least is someone sorta prominent in the industry, I guess. Granted I don’t know why the fuck he thinks he can talk about store front success when he can’t even get his studio out of the red.
You know, I think we could have a Pitchford-based economy if we really tried. Just listen to whatever opinion Randy Pitchford has and then do the exact opposite of that. Its the key to societal progress and an eventual utopia when you really think about it.
Who trusted the opinion of a guy who lost a usb stick of important gearbox info and barely legal porn on it at Medieval Times? You might as well be listening to Michael Pachter at this point.
Yeah, because everyone knows Randy Pitchford is an honest man who never lies or inflates what he's talking about. Right Honorable that man who left Barely Legal Squirt Porn camshow recordings on a business USB drive in a fucking medieval times
EGS is a piece of shit chinkesium invader, the people behind that company dont care at all and their 'solution' is to bribe publishers into making second rate garbage exclusively. I will never use that store for anything, I used to have an account and claimed that shitty total war game. Nobody bought that game on steam because nobody cares about a game you can get for free. Everyone knows free games must have some flaw, otherwise they'd sell them. In the case of EGS, youre the product, they try to weaponize their customerbase against steam. All of the things people like to rave about, like steam taking access to media away, that shit would be the norm if EGS was in the same position. Fuck chinese corrupt pseudo commies, fuck egs.
I'm not making a joke or trying to be mean, but is there any evidence of Pitchford ever saying something intelligent?
Like literally just a single recorded sentence, does such a thing exist?
No because the EGS is a trap and everyone saw it for what it was. Valve is lead with a libertarian bent from the top down by GabeN, the EGS is globohomo.
egs knows that it cannot compete with steam which is why they continuously try to force users onto their shit platform with exclusive deals and free garbage
if having exclusive deals worked, gog would be rolling in it with the amount of shit that you can only get there
people attracted with free garbage wont magically turn into paying customers
people that have money have already been using steam and they are in to deep to pull out and as long as your friends are on steam, you are too
couple of generations will have to die out for steam to lose it's hold and that is only if valve actually does nothing
Dunno, ask Timmy when he will allow reviews, give users forums and all the other stuff Steam has. Right now Steam is a lot ahead of Epic because it's not just another faceless storefront, it's a social network for gaymers.
>Epic's investment in technology
Epic's investments in "technology" has led to UGLY grafics post processing bullshit that make even 4090s chug, and Unreal Engine Tools that are a fucking pain in the ass. Epic has caused HARM, steps backwards. They compound on it with fucking hostile business practices, pulling console war bullshit on the PC platform just like Origin and Battlenet had tried before with their equally abysmal stores.
Epic should be fucking erased, the company, the store, and the Unreal engine.
Meanwhile, Valve's investment in Linux has made astronomical leaps in a way that matters and has positive kickback to performance and compatibility for all games, allowing the community to future-proof against operating system obsolescence and software incompatibility in future Windows editions.
The only other digital store that is actually cool is GOG and that's because they just do their thing, they have endeavored to provide a good* service (superior in a few respects) with optional features, and you don't even need any fucking launcher.
*Barring the not uncommon version/patch lagging behind the Steam version, but that's more the fault of the devs not updating shit.
>Meanwhile, Valve's investment in Linux has made astronomical leaps in a way that matters and has positive kickback to performance and compatibility for all games, allowing the community to future-proof against operating system obsolescence and software incompatibility in future Windows editions.
this is true to some extent but if they really want to future proof they need to retool steam to not use chromium as a backend, cause right now instead of being at the mercy of microsoft they're at the mercy of google maintaining support for linux. The entire reason that steam's not gonna work on windows 7 anymore is because the chromium features they're adding aren't compatible with 7.
I wish Epic was good in order for to Steam to need to do better, but it seems Epic can only throw money and games at people while not providing a good service for the consumer.
I'd be more inclined to like and actually use the Epic Game Store if they >had a shopping cart >didn't have fraud protection for buying multiple games that stops your purchase since there was no shopping cart >had user reviews >had optimized store loading between library and the store itself >had community controller configs >had community hub and forum for individual games >had achievements >had library organization by genre, title, time played, or whatever you want it to be >had player profiles >had direct chat, group chat, call, and emote options >had a friend list that you could just join in on their game >etc...
ON LAUNCH. It took over a year for some of these, being shopping cart and reviews, to be added while others were added far later or simply never. EGS' main function is to further feed my game hoarding addiction. First impressions are important and theirs was a bare bones corpse that they dressed nicely and gave you a $50 to pretend that it's alive and good company. Why would I bother with an inferior in nearly every way launcher when Steam has everything and more that I need?
if the epic store was a genuine competitor to steam, then they wouldn't have to buy out exclusives. people download steam to buy a game, but they stay on it because of all the extra shit valve offers. achievements, an item market, linux support, a whole social network in the form of the community tab, etc. epic will only ever be a way to launch and buy games, and it doesn't even do that well.
EGS gives me regional pricing and they have a cash back program so I use them sometimes when games are cheaper than Steam/GoG. I really hope uncle Tim puts more effort into it because as it stands it's barely competition.
Timmy has CCP funding, it's literally a bottomless pit of funny money, he's not going to run out.
China wants what Steam has and they're willing to piss billions down the hole to get it without understanding the conditions that made that strategy work for Wal-mart and Amazon.
I just built a gaming PC this year and it’s clear as day which is a better choice to use. There is no way I’m ever splitting up my library by using EGS. Steam has been around forever and it’s already a nuisance to have to use the different accounts from EA and Blizzard to play their games, Epic can fuck right off.
EGS could cure cure cancer and solve worldhunger and steamfags would still refuse to switch because they are addicted to making their steamlibrary bigger
How does one cure the cure for cancer?
Downloading CP onto the college grads computer is how we usually do it
cancer was cured the moment it was created. dumbass!!
Almost like Epic should take the hint and fuck off. The market has spoken and doesn't have any need for their store.
i'd say that having competition is always good but i don't think egs even counts as competition at this point.
Nah, I just think Tim Sweeny looks like an ugly pedophile, so I want him dead. His business practices are gnomish as fuck as well.
it's weird that some steam users have made that piece of software their identity
I didn't make steam my identity, epic made hating them part of my identity when they delisted Unreal Tournament from every store, took 3 years to add a shopping cart, and complained about monopolies while monopolizing game releases for a while to their store. I go to GOG, Itchio, and myabandonware regularly. The only thing I even use epic for is free games, that I don't even install, I just want to add to a statistic that shows their store is not as profitable as investors want it to be and that people just use it for free games.
What if I don't like juggling stores/ launchers? I literally cannot remember what I have on my multitude of other launchers, I don't boot up multiple game launchers a day. Like, if you asked me what I have on my uPlay and Origin, I cannot remember. Watchdogs? ME Andromeda and DA Inquisition I guess? A Far Cry game? Juggling libraries is an awful feeling.
they haven't though. saying steam fans are like apple fans is copium. we're not on steam because we're attached to valve, we're on steam because we're attached to communities. ESG, like xbox live and PSN, have gone out of their way to not let communities foster because they see it as an uncontrollable environment
And without getting paid for it! Unlike your kind...
its even weirder that shills like you keep pushing this false narrative. come up with a new strategy already
>cure cancer and solve world hunger
You can only do one thou. Also, i use Steam service to buy games, not for healthcare.
>EGS could cure cure cancer
you see, even EGS supporters know they're evil
imagine curing cured cancer
>EGS could cure cure cancer and solve worldhunger
So... anything but making a decent store?
I mean, I like to think curing cancer would sway me but currently they can't even give me in game screenshots or easy to manage file directory access.
Why would it buy it on the Fortnite launcher if I can get it cheaper on steam?
I still use it only for Fortnite and its free games, I have games also on GOG, Uplay where most of them are free and EA Launcher
As long as Epic does not make a more stable launcher and with the same or better services than Steam, I will not buy games from them
>EGS could cure cure cancer and solve worldhunger
I dont want to cure cancer or solve worldhunger tho, I want a functional launcher
>EGS could cure cure cancer and solve worldhunger and steamfags would still refuse to switch because they are addicted to making their steamlibrary bigger
Why do you gays frame it like its a zero-sum game? They can both coexist. Google and Apple app-stores do. This isn't a fight to the death where only one can survive.
What are you talking about? You can't have Play Store on a iphone and you App store isn't on Android. Apple allows no other app stores at the moment and the vast majority of normies only use Play Store, other stores barely matter
not when epic pays developers to make their games exclusive the their store
Because Timmy Tencent treats it as a zero-some game. He doesn't want people to be able to use Steam; see all the devs he bribed to make their games EGS exclusive.
>not an X on the hat
it's a twitter screencap, not an X screencap
To be fair randy pitchford at least is someone sorta prominent in the industry, I guess. Granted I don’t know why the fuck he thinks he can talk about store front success when he can’t even get his studio out of the red.
Consumers aren't going to get into a games storefront whose primary customer is publishers and not players. End of story.
Steam could do nothing for 10 years and it would still not be enough for EGS to catch up on all the features it is missing
Did they ever actually add that shopping cart?
After 3-4 years. I wonder if Epic's Top 20 bestsellers still has 25 games.
You know, I think we could have a Pitchford-based economy if we really tried. Just listen to whatever opinion Randy Pitchford has and then do the exact opposite of that. Its the key to societal progress and an eventual utopia when you really think about it.
Steam will die when Gaben dies, it's just that simple.
Who trusted the opinion of a guy who lost a usb stick of important gearbox info and barely legal porn on it at Medieval Times? You might as well be listening to Michael Pachter at this point.
EGS still has 7 months to catch up and leave Steam in the dust.
Trust the plan!
EGS will fail as all throw money endlessly strategies simply do not survive in the long term
Yeah, because everyone knows Randy Pitchford is an honest man who never lies or inflates what he's talking about. Right Honorable that man who left Barely Legal Squirt Porn camshow recordings on a business USB drive in a fucking medieval times
EGS is a piece of shit chinkesium invader, the people behind that company dont care at all and their 'solution' is to bribe publishers into making second rate garbage exclusively. I will never use that store for anything, I used to have an account and claimed that shitty total war game. Nobody bought that game on steam because nobody cares about a game you can get for free. Everyone knows free games must have some flaw, otherwise they'd sell them. In the case of EGS, youre the product, they try to weaponize their customerbase against steam. All of the things people like to rave about, like steam taking access to media away, that shit would be the norm if EGS was in the same position. Fuck chinese corrupt pseudo commies, fuck egs.
Yes have faith
I'm not making a joke or trying to be mean, but is there any evidence of Pitchford ever saying something intelligent?
Like literally just a single recorded sentence, does such a thing exist?
No because the EGS is a trap and everyone saw it for what it was. Valve is lead with a libertarian bent from the top down by GabeN, the EGS is globohomo.
They're investing their money into funding and publishing games now. But they should really improve their store too so that it's more appealing.
>13 Apr 2019
Just one more year and Steam will finally be dead.
egs knows that it cannot compete with steam which is why they continuously try to force users onto their shit platform with exclusive deals and free garbage
if having exclusive deals worked, gog would be rolling in it with the amount of shit that you can only get there
people attracted with free garbage wont magically turn into paying customers
people that have money have already been using steam and they are in to deep to pull out and as long as your friends are on steam, you are too
couple of generations will have to die out for steam to lose it's hold and that is only if valve actually does nothing
Isnt his studio being sold off again like the worthless shit it is lol?
iirc Tim straight up said their only hope is to become the market leader by giving away as much shit as possible before they run out of Fortnite money
No, Fortnite is the only thing Epic games has going for it and it's gotten worse over the years.
Anyone that disagrees with this started playing post ch2.
If that platform is ESG driven then no. We all should know by now how it'll end.
steam, whilst shit, is at least convenient to use
egs is inconvenient on top of being shit
Dunno, ask Timmy when he will allow reviews, give users forums and all the other stuff Steam has. Right now Steam is a lot ahead of Epic because it's not just another faceless storefront, it's a social network for gaymers.
Remember that Timmy removed unreal tournament games from stores and if you support epic chink store you also support the "YOU'LL OWN NOTHING" mindset.
>supporting digital stores in the first place (unless its gog)
That's already "YOU'LL OWN NOTHING" specially if you support steam
Sure. Two more weeks until steam takes away all our games Timmy.
>want to buy game key
>EGS only retail keys
Been working fine for me so far.
I just use GOG Galaxy to track all my PC games.
>Epic's investment in technology
Epic's investments in "technology" has led to UGLY grafics post processing bullshit that make even 4090s chug, and Unreal Engine Tools that are a fucking pain in the ass. Epic has caused HARM, steps backwards. They compound on it with fucking hostile business practices, pulling console war bullshit on the PC platform just like Origin and Battlenet had tried before with their equally abysmal stores.
Epic should be fucking erased, the company, the store, and the Unreal engine.
Meanwhile, Valve's investment in Linux has made astronomical leaps in a way that matters and has positive kickback to performance and compatibility for all games, allowing the community to future-proof against operating system obsolescence and software incompatibility in future Windows editions.
The only other digital store that is actually cool is GOG and that's because they just do their thing, they have endeavored to provide a good* service (superior in a few respects) with optional features, and you don't even need any fucking launcher.
*Barring the not uncommon version/patch lagging behind the Steam version, but that's more the fault of the devs not updating shit.
>Meanwhile, Valve's investment in Linux has made astronomical leaps in a way that matters and has positive kickback to performance and compatibility for all games, allowing the community to future-proof against operating system obsolescence and software incompatibility in future Windows editions.
this is true to some extent but if they really want to future proof they need to retool steam to not use chromium as a backend, cause right now instead of being at the mercy of microsoft they're at the mercy of google maintaining support for linux. The entire reason that steam's not gonna work on windows 7 anymore is because the chromium features they're adding aren't compatible with 7.
>this retards mistaking Epic Game Store for EGS fiance.
Lmao
its ESG you double moron at least correct him right
You just said Epic Game Store Twice
>every unreal game has been a technical blunder
>nobody is buying games on EGS
Tencent are pulling their funding from epic
I wish Epic was good in order for to Steam to need to do better, but it seems Epic can only throw money and games at people while not providing a good service for the consumer.
>Steam to need to do better
Are you chinese or something? There's isn't a single gaming platform that is better than Steam.
I mean that's definitely true but Steam would be even better if it's, well, better
Improvement never stops
Valve are constantly shipping updates and features to Steam I don't know what the fuck you're asking for
Bro Valve didn't need Epic for that. Even now, after the Steam Deck release, they're prepping for a Steam Machine+VR release soon.
That's a wholly unprompted endeavor I guarantee wasn't even influenced by the existence of EGS.
I'd be more inclined to like and actually use the Epic Game Store if they
>had a shopping cart
>didn't have fraud protection for buying multiple games that stops your purchase since there was no shopping cart
>had user reviews
>had optimized store loading between library and the store itself
>had community controller configs
>had community hub and forum for individual games
>had achievements
>had library organization by genre, title, time played, or whatever you want it to be
>had player profiles
>had direct chat, group chat, call, and emote options
>had a friend list that you could just join in on their game
>etc...
ON LAUNCH. It took over a year for some of these, being shopping cart and reviews, to be added while others were added far later or simply never. EGS' main function is to further feed my game hoarding addiction. First impressions are important and theirs was a bare bones corpse that they dressed nicely and gave you a $50 to pretend that it's alive and good company. Why would I bother with an inferior in nearly every way launcher when Steam has everything and more that I need?
if the epic store was a genuine competitor to steam, then they wouldn't have to buy out exclusives. people download steam to buy a game, but they stay on it because of all the extra shit valve offers. achievements, an item market, linux support, a whole social network in the form of the community tab, etc. epic will only ever be a way to launch and buy games, and it doesn't even do that well.
>Can't run it on linux
can't even entertain the idea of using it
EGS gives me regional pricing and they have a cash back program so I use them sometimes when games are cheaper than Steam/GoG. I really hope uncle Tim puts more effort into it because as it stands it's barely competition.
maybe if timmy gets his head out of his ass and stops trying to funnel all of his money into exclusivity deals
Timmy has CCP funding, it's literally a bottomless pit of funny money, he's not going to run out.
China wants what Steam has and they're willing to piss billions down the hole to get it without understanding the conditions that made that strategy work for Wal-mart and Amazon.
I just built a gaming PC this year and it’s clear as day which is a better choice to use. There is no way I’m ever splitting up my library by using EGS. Steam has been around forever and it’s already a nuisance to have to use the different accounts from EA and Blizzard to play their games, Epic can fuck right off.