The Epic Games Store. Half a billion in losses, almost no growth.Not even Fortnite may be able to save it.
  • @onlooker
    14•3 years ago

    The hypocrisies of EGS and Tim Sweeney laid bare. Good. I am so sick of his whole “we’re doing this for the little guy” shtick. Let it be known far and wide that Sweeney is doing this for one thing and one thing only: mo’ money.

    • QuentinCallaghanOP
      3•3 years ago

      A gaming giant with a market value of gorillions of dollars standing up for the little guy? One of the fiercest tricks the devil ever pulled.

    • m-p{3}
      9•3 years ago

      I use GOG Galaxy, and have it launch the Epic Game Launcher when required, and kill it when the game is closed.

      • @freely
        11•3 years ago

        Still no Linux support on GOG Galaxy ;(

        • ghost_laptop
          5•3 years ago

          There’s Minigalaxy which lets you run your games but its functionality is pretty bare bones, but yeah.

      • IngrownMink4
        2•3 years ago

        I do exactly the same! I hate Epic Games’ launcher as much as EA’s launcher (Origin, which is also horrible). Good thing EA finally got their act together and created EA Play to replace Origin (and it works much better, and is better designed).

  • Ninmi
    4•3 years ago

    The bit about exclusivity is what I’d like people to understand when they argue Epic Games Store is good because it forces competition. We’re just heading towards the same disaster as VOD services where they all have their own set of exclusives and all 10 of them want their 10e/month. Or like Anime VOD services where essentially only Crunchyroll is allowed to operate as they hold the vast majority of licences. Then you have a situation where Crunchyroll still has a fucking Flash Player in 2018 because they don’t have to give a shit.

    • @MetallinatusM
      3•3 years ago

      Crunchyroll was actually just bought last week by Funanimation’s parent company, so yay, I don’t really like the sound of that…

  • Sr Estegosaurio
    4•3 years ago

    I hate EGS, (apart for not being FOSS) It’s just bad, but really. Compared to Steam in terms of functionality it just does nothing. And it doesn’t work on Linux…

  • @greensand
    1•3 years ago

    name a games store that doesn’t suck