Why do gamers refuse to use the Epic Games Store? Former Epic exclusive Witchfire developer Adrian Chmielarz explains its because Steam is a home.
  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
    34·
    2 天前

    Does EGS have reviews yet? It didn’t last time I visited for a free game.

    I’m (probably) not going to buy a game from a platform that doesn’t have reviews.

    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
      32·
      2 天前

      The only written reviews it shows are industry ones from OpenCritic.

      It shows a user rating out of 5 stars but no idea how that is derived.

      It’s just perfectly anti-customer.

      • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        2 天前

        Yeah it felt like they literally marketed themselves as exclusively pro developers while having nothing for the consumer, which I’ve always thought was a really fuckin weird stance to take if you want to compete with Steam.

        • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          2 天前

          Meanwhile if you’re part of Steam’s partner program you know that Valve are constantly improving things on the backend for devs and publishers. Just about the only “developer-friendly” thing Epic does that Steam doesn’t do better is asking for a smaller cut.

          • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            2 天前

            Yup, there’s a reason so many developers are willing to go to Steam despite them taking a larger cut. It was so weird that Epic seemed to market to consumers about how it was so much better for developers while they did nothing to actually make their platform desirable for either.

    • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      2 天前

      It has, but not for everyone. They’re randomly offered to players, but I’m unsure of any hidden criteria to trigger the pop-up.