The Epic (Store) Fail

[Barabbah]

Once a friend bought the remake of need for speed most wanted on cd. It needed to install origin before the actual game but origin itself didn't recognized the disc as original (not pirated). But that wasn't the best part of the story. Opening the disc in explorer I've soon pointed him there was a mastodontic zip file. The whole game was inside. Free of drm.

We were like this (except the discussion of lost paellas):

[Wesp5]

None of this shows why EGS is currently a better store front for customers than Steam, though, unless you count "less non-physical mess," which hardly outweighs the plethora of good features Steam has.

I never said that the EGS was better, it isn't! I only said that Valve needed a better competion than local stores like Uplay and Origin to finally get their act together. They had the monopoly too long...

[DarkProphet]

None of this shows why EGS is currently a better store front for customers than Steam, though, unless you count "less non-physical mess," which hardly outweighs the plethora of good features Steam has.

I never said that the EGS was better, it isn't! I only said that Valve needed a better competion than local stores like Uplay and Origin to finally get their act together. They had the monopoly too long...

Ah, okay. I would contend, however, that EGS is not good competition to Valve on the consumer end for the various reasons we've covered, though. They're only good competition to Valve on the producer/publisher/developer side...which I don't really care about as a customer because they can kiss my posterior if they think I'm going to pay them...unless they only put Bloodlines 2 there in which case I would have to cave. Bloodlines 1 is my favorite game so I cannot resist. Thank God it's not exclusive to TGS or I would have to give those fiends money or suffer eternally.

[Wesp5]

Ah, okay. I would contend, however, that EGS is not good competition to Valve on the consumer end for the various reasons we've covered, though.

Not yet ;). It could well be in a short time and maybe it will end with the EGS being the high quality market with Steam being even more flooded with bad games.

[DarkZephyr]

Ah, okay. I would contend, however, that EGS is not good competition to Valve on the consumer end for the various reasons we've covered, though.

Not yet ;). It could well be in a short time and maybe it will end with the EGS being the high quality market with Steam being even more flooded with bad games.

EGS doesn't deserve success as far as I'm concerned. 

[DarkProphet]

Ah, okay. I would contend, however, that EGS is not good competition to Valve on the consumer end for the various reasons we've covered, though.

Not yet ;). It could well be in a short time and maybe it will end with the EGS being the high quality market with Steam being even more flooded with bad games.

EGS doesn't deserve success as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah. You know how CD Projekt Red builds good will with the customer? EGS is doing the opposite. As Wesp says, the store may one day be good, but I'm not going for forget the shit they're pulling right now. They're pissing me off quite a lot causing Borderlands 3 and The Outer Worlds to not come out on Steam when the games are first launched, and I'll be damned if they're going to earn my loyalty. Steam has never screwed me over.

[DarkZephyr]

Ah, okay. I would contend, however, that EGS is not good competition to Valve on the consumer end for the various reasons we've covered, though.

Not yet ;). It could well be in a short time and maybe it will end with the EGS being the high quality market with Steam being even more flooded with bad games.

EGS doesn't deserve success as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah. You know how CD Projekt Red builds good will with the customer? EGS is doing the opposite. As Wesp says, the store may one day be good, but I'm not going for forget the shit they're pulling right now. They're pissing me off quite a lot causing Borderlands 3 and The Outer Worlds to not come out on Steam when the games are first launched, and I'll be damned if they're going to earn my loyalty. Steam has never screwed me over.

I am in absolute agreement. 

[Highwayman667]

I never said that the EGS was better, it isn't! I only said that Valve needed a better competion than local stores like Uplay and Origin to finally get their act together. They had the monopoly too long...

One of the reasons I went PC was precisely because I wanted to avoid console exclusivity.

Now I gotta deal with client exclusivity, which means that if I want new Bioware games I have to get Origin. If I want new Walking Dead Games then I have to go to EGS. This is all bullshit.

Hopefully Galaxy 2.0 will be as promising as it sounds.

[Wilhelm-Streicher]

Allegedly Paradox made a Deal with Epic."The document apparently concerns the terms of Epic’s deal with Paradox. Sounds like we’re not going to get details on that, though Apple’s lawyer wants to discuss “general concepts” from the filing."https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/1389615512385200132
So maybe if Bloodlines 2 is part of this deal well its highly likely that it will be a 1 year Epic Store exclusive. Fuck.......

By the way i have no idea why this huge Epic vs Apple lawsuit leak has so many other not Epic and Apple relevant stuff. 

[edx]

I think that probably refers to the deal concering Surviving the Aftermath, which was an Epic exclusive back in 2019.