Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy… and then it’s only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can’t it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It’s so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic… which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

      • pressanykeynow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, but frankly the high seas usually provide less than Steam does even with money in the equation. And that’s probably the only case when high seas is worse, with all the other services in my experience the high seas provide better service(spotify was close). So the point is if a game doesn’t release on Steam it’s release date just moves to the moment it releases on Steam. Not the best scenario, but Steam really has little competition and Epic surely isn’t trying to be one.

        • Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          I have no problem with Steam. I was mainly talking about games that only (don’t) come out on Epic Store, but maybe I wasn’t clear enough.

      • Emerica@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        8 days ago

        Pretty much everything really. It’s basically a store and that’s it, no cool features that Steam has. They may have achievements now but not positive. Think it took two years just for them to add a shopping cart. They dump money on developers to release exclusively on Epic instead of spending it making a good experience for customers. No reviews, no forums, no workshop etc.

        I grab the free games they offer every couple weeks and use Heroic to play them, not touching their launcher.

        • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          8 days ago

          not to mention steam’s:

          screenshot manager

          community card trading

          friends & chat

          easy to join small muliplayer (friends can just send you a button that launches the game and joins them instantly)

          highly customisable profiles

          tools & soundtracks

          achievemnts

          and so much more that can be simply small little fun

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Copying my reply to someone else:

        Epic is anti-customer: https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-from-the-epic-store-developer-of-darq-7ee834ed0ac7

        Tldr: Kickstarter Game with a lot of interest while in development announces a release date on Steam. After the date announcement they get contacted by Epic saying “we’d love to host your game” for an exclusivity deal.
        Dev responds that they would be happy to have their game on Epic but promises were made during crowd funding that it would be available on Steam.
        Epic replies that they aren’t interested if it’s not exclusive.

        This tells me that

        1. Epic is full of shit. "We’d love to have your game, but only if it’s exclusive.
        2. Epic doesn’t care about being a better service for its customers. Having the game available on Epic as well is strictly better for Epic’s customers and they easily could have done that. They chose not to.
        3. Epic is not interested in actually having to compete with other companies. This would require them to provide a better service in some fashion. They are only interested if they can force people “if you want to purchase this game you have to buy it through us” which is anti-consumer.