As Steam has been stagnant for years now, uplay and origin basically release one relevant game here and there now it looks like Epic is trying to capture the market in a big way via offering a better cut to a certain tier of publishers.
But… if you visit their store it’s pretty bare. A couple of exclusives and fornighte which is a hype game on a Blizzard level right now? **Would you guys be persuaded to get more games on a different launcher?**
I know some in SB totally use GOG and some avoid it, I’m personally hoping Epic creates enough noise and competition Steam is forced to do better, but it’s pretty hard for me to get out at this point.
I played Witcher 3 on GOG and I’m tempted to get it on Steam just so the ONE game I have on GOG would be in my steam launcher so I could get one less app off my system. I even tried to do GTA V off of the rockstar launcher, cost me a night of extra DL because their server is very slow compared to steam and I honestly play the game less because it’s in a different launcher.
No, there’s no store-wide DRM, though game developers can add their own.
No, Epic doesn’t plan to add social components like game streaming or forums.
Yes, Epic will help devs take advantage of online features in their games (presumably things like chat, matchmaking, and cloud saves, though they weren’t mentioned by name).
Yes, the Epic Store will offer refunds — initially through customer support, though an automated, 14-day, no-questions-asked return policy should follow soon.
Yes, it’ll be available outside the US, in “most countries in the world except for China and where prohibited by US law, such as North Korea and Iran.”
This sounds pretty sweet to me so far.
I make icons for the games I’m playing and pin the ones I’m playing often to the start bar, so as long as I can do that I don’t care what “launcher” it uses.
I am very glib about capitalism and literally don’t care, Steam got there first so sorry everyone else my not needing to think more than 2 seconds about it trumps all other considerations
i hate having more launchers, it’s so fucking awful. i have Steam; Blizzard’s whatever the fuck; Ubisoft’s “I may need to be reinstalled occasionally to even run” bullshit; GOG Galaxy which is, I guess, fine; and the itch.io launcher which…actually that one is fine.
Oh, and sometimes I have shit on Humble that I don’t have elsewhere so that’s another place to look.
To play Rainbow Six I launch steam then the game which launches ubisoft which actually launches the game
I am against more launchers, but I also hate Steam. I want something that will launch everything i own from once place.
I miss having a CD wallet with pieces of paper stuck in with the CDs that have their keys.
I don’t know dawg, user reviews are sorta important and they won’t have those
Also their refund policy is not no questions asked, it’s apparently a real hassle where you have to send them a bunch of shit to verify who knows what. But I’m not sure on the details so correct me if I’m wrong
I don’t think that those isolated cases warrant the removal of a tool that’s useful to consumers 99% of the time! You can easily filter out those review bombers in a couple of seconds if you just look at the reviews instead of just the aggregated number.
Anyway, now I read that most of my gripes are because the store isn’t finished yet. Someone from Epic said that reviews will come later and that the refund system will be similar to Valve’s once it’s done. So there’s that
steam is just straight up embedded chromium so they dont even get to take advantage of any ease-of-use stuff that electron adds
maybe stuff being native instead of node makes the backend less piggy but i’d imagine the rendering engine is the bulk of the bloat so it probably doesnt help much
I don’t know about nazis per se but gamergate (my auto correct corrected that to haberdashery) and other right wing related fucks for sure, that’s documented
GOG/Projekt Red people were recently openly transphobic on twitter, iirc. But also, like, any significantly successful company will slaughter a minority on livestream if it increases their stock price without repercussion.
I don’t know what you’re referring to with gaben but I mean I don’t doubt it. At least he seems to shut up about it though unlike CDPR?? That’s always been the problem with valve, that they don’t communicate, but maybe that’s actually a blessing