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.

    • kworpy@lemm.eeEnglish
      212·
      18 days ago

      they pay devs (mostly indie) millions to make their games exclusive to epic for up to over a year. i’d rather not support a company that pays to limit your choice as a consumer

    • Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      111·
      18 days ago

      I prefer steam, I’d like to be able to choose what platform I buy a game on. Outside of just not wanting a 5th launcher because I hate having a billion launchers, Steam has many features the EGS doesn’t have. Free cloud save backups and screenshot backups, steam workshop for mods, remote play together, game streaming, etc. I also really like steam having player reviews too.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      18 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.
    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      Well mine is pretty petty. Every time I start up my system I’m spammed by epic advertisements in the lower right. It’s just so obnoxious, particularly since I’m on my couch and using my controller, so I have to pick up keyboard to dismiss those.

      I’m so lazy I haven’t bothered to investigate options to be fair, but broadly speaking I don’t like how much it screams “look at me, look at me!” when I had no intention of interacting with their store/launcher at all that time.

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      18 days ago

      I like them too but I’ve noticed that some games are not updated to the same version as their Steam counterparts.

      • Cris16228@lemmy.todayEnglish
        24·
        18 days ago

        Because no one gives a shit about epic? Even devs contact care to update their games there as much as steam