A reminder that Epic needed 3 years to add shopping cart and in that time. Steam remade the whole UI, revived demos. the steam deck was released. New game searcher and an interactive recommender based on games you like etc....
Also, most of their games still don't support tracking achievements, including many of their current exclusives that do have them on console, such as Kingdom Hearts or even Fortnite itself.
I think what makes steam so great is that it is way more than just a "store for games" on steam you have a community, a workshop for modding, a market to sell your cards or your items, you have levels and badges, they curate events on the store like steam grand prix or or clorthaxs steam game hunt, they simply have way more to offer in terms of community and usable content
Well... you can have a profile picture I guess, but I don't like that you can only choose a handful of pre-made ones. Honestly doesn't look any less bleak than Epic's letter profiles
The worst is that Epic has been doing that for years straight, like, will they ever learn the lesson that this is an absolutely despicable way of attracting people to your platform? I refuse to think so. Metro, Borderlands, Ooblets, Evil Dead, Darkest Dungeon, Axiom Verge, ans the former three are more egregious though. No wonder I refuse to use Epic Games Store even if the weekly free gamea shtick is neat.
I get the free games on epic weekly. But i vow to never spend a single cent. That way, it hurts epic since they lose money from the giveaway, and never gain anything from me. Effectively im hurting them by just simply claiming the games and not spending money
Lack of features aside (which still blows my mind given how long they have had), one of my biggest issues was how quickly (specifically Tim Sweeney) went from "We want to be a competent competitor to Steam" to "We will do whatever is necessary to destroy Steam". I'm all for competition (especially if it gets Valve to fix things), but I have 16 years of amazing memories on Steam and saying you basically want to take them down doesn't quite inspire me to spend money on your storefront.
tbh i dont get all the hate theyre getting, epic is doing some really great things generally speaking... and most people have it for free games anyways so the games being exclusive doesnt change whether u have it downloaded or not.
@@Arxgxmi it has more to do with what Epic has done. Epic's attitude on swiping games to be an exclusivity deal has soured people Especially when they tried to get a game from a developer, but the developer dared show some integrity to actual make a compromise with Epic while keeping to his promise to his supporters. Epic didn't like that. And it really torpedoed their slogan of "being for the developer." On another point, I'm not trusting a company where the Chinese Company Tencent, a company that is actually told by the Chinese Communist Party to spy, has over 40% shares in the company. I'd still like to keep some semblance of privacy left, and most certainly not allow a foreign aggressive country have it.
Sweeney creeps me out. Every time I see statements from the guy, I get this mob boss/god complex vibe. I can't imagine how horrible it would be for this man to own a monopoly over the gaming market, which is exactly what they're trying to do with EGS.
Epic literally permanently banned me from contacting customer support after I tried reaching out to them about a billing issue on their side. The agent refused to do anything, and I was shadow-banned without warning.
For me it happened the opposite when I tried to buy dead by daylight some billing issue occurred and steam helped me so much in that and maybe that's another reason why steam is way better
You're not the only one. They got sued for that and privacy violations and had to pay out over $500 million. Seems they don't mind letting kids buy whatever they want to but when the parents complain and demand their money back, Epic would refuse to refund and lock their accounts. BUT Epic hates it when others try to get more money out of them and sued Apple and Google for "taking too much" of the revenue cut. Epic has also been sued for their habit of stealing dance moves, making them into emotes and not giving the original artist any credit or revenue.
I remember when Epic said they would stop buying so many exclusives if Steam matched their revenue split. They said with a straight face that they will be less competitive when others get more competitive.
Most of epics owners never grew up. They are still riding off the coattails of real success.just like how sweeney swears he a conservationist when his crew is one of the greediest on the planet
Why would Steam match the competition's split ? When you have a good service, good servers, good UI, you need to pay your employees, cause they work very well. These guys who gave us the new BPM aren't the people sitting next to Gabe with a big fortune, they're just employees, they need money for food, shelter and health
It's insane how much missed potential EGS has. While Steam has been adding more and more features, the only thing that Epic thought about using their billions on is TIMED exclusivity deals. We could've had a legit competitor to Steam but at this point it's nothing more than a glorified Fortnite launcher and game giveaway machine.
@@BeamDude381 Yeah but when you are poor and can´t afford so many games, even if they are cheap they are worth a ton for a lot of people, especially because some of them are genuinely good games like Celeste, Nuclear Throne and Rayman Legends. I even got introduced to some games I didn´t know about and I think are really good like Abzu and A Short Hike.
Recently uninstalled epic games store because even the free games are something I don't give a shit about. It's just wasted space on my pc. And it's not even a lot of space.
I will give epic credit, if it wasn't for the free games I wouldn't have experienced one of my greatest influences in art and gaming as early as I did - Nuclear Throne
@@A8EL Got The Entire Bioshock collection,Prey,Sonic Mania,Metro,Nioh,Wolfenstien,Control,Death Stranding and many more. Sorry but as much as i respect steam and gog and they are still a much superior storefronts,Their giveaways consists mostly crappy shovelwares. Atleast EPIC gives away actual gems worth playing.
@@Aigle662frileux very cool. But if I didn't make my question clear: _where_ do I go to *start?* Most I'm familiar with I'm RetroArch, and they don't have PS3 let alone PS4 up yet. Again, I'm showing interest. Just point me in the right direction, not even asking for handholding.
another thing is that the epic store constantly logs you out and it's annoying af. never had Steam do that to me (though granted, the only times i don't use it are when i'm gone from home for extended periods).
DUDE SAME, I have the epic games launcher only to play the rare Fortnite game with my friends, but every time when I decide "hm yes today will be the day when I update Fortnite" after not having opened it for about 2-3 weeks I have to log back in with my credentials, download the update to Fortnite at 10 MEGABYTES A SECOND (my internet speed is WELL OVER 250 MB/s, Steam handles 120 MB/s VERY EASILY)
@@axain7784 the worst part ? if I remember correctly they made the first sale actually shop wide without warning anyone, so every game had a promo even if the devs didnt approuve of it, a bunch of games were pulled out from the store during that time because the devs were not happy in the slightest
I think what's most baffling about Steam is they're the only company that people are glad to see as a monopoly, or at least not worried about it. Competitors enter the scene and people get outright pissed off because it does mean they have to start playing their games all on different programs. But Steam handles its power so scarily well it's unreal. They could easily start becoming well and truly lazy and hostile to modders but they're not. Maybe my standards for companies are just too low now.
idk what part of steam is a monopoly exactly. they dont abuse their power to stay on top, while not giving two shits about the consumers and their product, unlike actual monopolies. the only thing that bothers me is the amount of money they take from game sells (they should reduce it to 10-20% for indie developers imo)
@@Dr_Dan_ A monopoly just describes a company that has a single grip on a market. To be fair it doesn't quite describe Steam, but you don't have to abuse your power to stay a monopoly. Most just do so because they can. Steam's got its faults but honestly I'm glad their faults are more akin to apathy than outright malice.
The competitor to Steam that’s ever held any real weight to me is GOG, because they try to ensure old games function with minimal end-user tweaking and the no DRM policy. Otherwise you’ve got publisher storefronts like Origins, which tend to be clunky, and EGS, which somehow launches without a shopping cart and ignores every Steam should have taught them. Steam has its own issues, but Valve are content enough to not try and enforce their monopoly.
I still remember how I was hopeful for Epic making positive changes on the market as i considered the addition of another big player on the market would force both of them to improve. "More competition = more improvement" type of thinking... How wrong i was back then. Epic offers literally nothing better than Steam did for years, their claim that smaller sale split would make games cheaper was a total lie, genuinely making selling games for smaller devs an actual hustle... For me the only 2 reasons why you would ever want to visit the store (outside of playing Fortnite) are a slue of free games and exclusives and even then I don't go there. The only *GOOD* things i can think of is are: -small indie devs get that crucial boost of cash, ensuring that they can focus on making and improving their games without the fear of going bankrupt in the process -once the exclusivity is over and the game finally arrives on Steam, i know I'm getting a better product that what Epic users got on launch. Less bugs, more polish, eventual DLC already being added. Even those "good" things only profit me as a Steam user further down the line.
problem is epic exclusivity deals has killed games, especially multiplayer nearly all epic exclusivity deal sold less than 100K units, and when it release on steam it sold more (or even double) of the units sold on the timed exclusivity deal but being that hype for the game is usually at the peak when nearing and upon launch, active player count is abysmal for any competitive multiplayer game playing in the first 1 year is basically like queueing an unpopular game that has some marketing (maybe only beyond the first month or so) then after 1 year, since majority of the pre-existing playerbase has moved on to another game. new players on steam still has to struggle to queue for games especially in areas outside US US may have a lot of people, but active communities throughout the globe is still more player count than just US for a rather popular game i'm happy for the devs of dead island 2 that they didn't have to waste all those hears in development for nothing, but there's just too few audience to justify continuing long term support for the game or make another game in the franchise (spin-off or otherwise) it's more likely that if the devs could financially fund the development of another game that they'll try out "new things", likely different direction, genre, even maybe art style as they probably lost the confidence in the dead island franchise financially (and business needs money to survive)
I got an Epic account solely for the free games, I have zero interest in Fortnite, and after a few years of claiming every free game they offered I finally installed the launcher and tried to play something. I want my money back.
@@imac5834 I have never been able to get a single game to work through EGS. Meanwhile Steam and GoG both work perfectly fine. I want there to be more competition in this market, it would be nice if Epic actually provided some.
I just love how Steam seems to *actually* care about gamers, I've never seen a company do something for Linux before (also the Deck is very easy to repair and use it like any other computer, which is really nice). EGS is literally digging their grave like this.
i also hate the fact that they literally flashbang you at checkout
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If you think the launcher is slow, try accessing the store through the browser! I'm away from my computer for a while and had to use the browser store to get the free games, spent like 15-20 mins to get 1 GAME in my library
something actually pretty amazing about GoG is that a lot of the older titles they have on their platform come with compatibility and widescreen patches. so it makes that service the go-to place for vintage games.
As much as I love GoG, most of my games are a bit too outdated and some patches legit won't rescue it. But I do admit that they're at least PLAYABLE. That's what counts for me to be honest. At first I only got it for Jazz Jackrabbit but I've been using it for other games too that aren't on steam.
the thing with GOG is that it's like nintendo consoles vs. everyone else's - sure, they're *technically* a competitor, but they do their own unique thing and sometimes even outperform the competition, so it's more like they're in their own league.
@@frostsoul4199 You have the option in Gog. Once you bought a game, you can see in the download-section all the patches to download or not. your choice.
For me the worst part is that for some reason a couple of games that have launchers like watch dogs 2, if I downloaded from epic the game installs 2 times, and if I uninstall one it just doesn't work, so basically on my PC the game has double the size, and yeah from a darkest dungeon fan I'm waiting for steam as well.
That's the thing about Epic, even though they give away free games all the time, there's no reason for you to spend actual money on their store. Hell, you don't even need to have it downloaded to get the free games, logging in from the browser already gets it done. They just lack any actual features to actually compete with Steam (like all of the other useless launchers), and their exclusivity deals just hurt the industry instead of supporting it, hurting the newly launched games in the process as well
Welp, except for exclusive games. But to be honest, games like Journey, Heavy Rain and Kingdom Hearts are only on PC because Epic approached the devs to port these games from console to PC, so it's cool with me
I buy games on epic, half of my video game library is on it. Personally the prices are better at least in the uk and games go on sale more often. The only issue is the library size. But they are just small. I don’t think the exclusivity is a bad thing, it’s a launcher and needs ways of other people coming to their store. I don’t get the boycotting, it’s a literal launcher.
@@oo--7714 I don't get it either, it's just a launcher, you can add all your games to Steam as non-Steam games and have most of the features. I mean, maybe it's a principle thing, maybe people want to send a message against exclusivity, but many of those same people tend to say they play on Nintendo or PlayStation which also do exclusives so I dunno what their deal is
@@Thornskade for me, the biggest reason i don't like EGS isn't because it's a launcher.... i mean, i could stand having to use uplay, origin, rockstar social club, etc and a few games with their own dedicated launcher it's that exclusivity deal on epic most of the time means the game doesn't do well financially, even if the game isn't to my taste it's just a bit unfair to the people that do care about the game it's the inherent actively playing user spread is terrible on EGS to the point that it's more like a fortnite launcher that you can also buy and launch other games with it, instead of a game launcher general horrible performance too, i give it a pass when it first got traction but not after years of the bare minimum of improvement in software development, it's like EGS has only went up by 1 major version in years with the main feature being a shopping cart which is a basic feature of any digital storefront that i even made for an e-commerce prototype back when i was learning programming in under 2 weeks then the general anti-consumer behavior epic games has, such as tim sweeney admitting that if apple made a special exempt for fortnite to not have to pay a percentage of the skin microtransaction income that he would drop the lawsuit (basically admitting "i want more money, but it's ok if the other doesn't benefit") a terrible mislead mentioning lower profit cut percentage for games sold on EGS would "reduce games prices", i caught unto it immediately that game prices stay the same and publishers would just make more profit finally, it just seems like EGS likes to blame others or put other down to make them look good, a few examples being: - no user review because "review bombing", review bombing only happens if the dev/publisher does not respect the players so this isn't good for user, it's good for making more money for bad publishers and bad devs - putting steam (a competitor) in a bad light with the "steam takes 30% of profit for game sales" when 30% was the industry standard then had the audacity to claim that "[EGS] will stop buying so much exclusivity when steam lower their profit cut" then steam did overall lower it, but look at epic still buying exclusivity - claiming apple predatory practice of taking a cut of profit on every sale that is processed through their app store, suing apple claiming that [epic] is doing a good thing for every devs on ios devices but then admit that if apple just don't take a cut from fortnite microtransaction sales while also apple would not give the special privilege to any other dev, [epic] would gladly take it and the lawsuit would've never happened it's not a big problem at once, it's just [epic] is going in the direction of even more anti-consumer 1 major step at a time ever since they struck gold with fortnite (even then fortnite alone cannot sustain epic forever, all games eventually die out and nobody is sure how tf2 is still alive) but that's all just my personal opinion, and it's not my business what launcher people uses
@@lifegrain6092 Developers choose to take the exclusivity deal, who should care most about how well their game does. You should take it up with them. I don't see how this is unfair to people who care about the game. How is Epic Games anti-consumer? The lawsuit was legitimate and against the anti-consumer behavior of Apple, rather. They also technically won as the EU is already forcing Apple to allow third-party software on their devices. I would never touch an Apple device because it would never truly have been my hardware and basically be under full control of Apple so it's funny to me you're using that to call Epic anti-consumer instead, it makes no sense.
Heroic Games Launcher is an awesome alternative front-end. It supports GOG too and is much faster and is less bloated, and as a plus, it runs on Linux.
One of Epic Store's selling points is that they don't have user reviews, they "wont allow review bombing". That shows the disconnect with us the customers.
What is annoying are some games that recently announced to be exclusive to epic game store I also heard that the epic games versions of games have issues like lag, errors, etc. I am glad that evil dead the game is coming to steam since that game is so fun especially with crossplay on.
Can confirm about Borderlands 3 on epic. First lag is sometimes even present in single, second u loose access to dlc if you loose internet connection (ofc till you go up again) so ye, free games can't work around that.
Literally, playing Dying Light recently with the bros, i never faced an issue on Steam, but my friends has non-stop issue from profile errors to lobby disconnections, atleast we managed to finish the whole thing including the expansions a day ago lol
My least favorite part about EGS is just how slow everything is compared to steam. Opening the store, changing pages, downloading, it all takes so much longer than on steam
It just baffles me sometimes how much internet and system power EGS demands only to open a glorified webpage, the amount of times I haven't even been able to claim a play some games for these reasons is disgusting.
I like steam because you can automatically use proton and don't have to do a day of research on how to get the game to boot on Linux. I have Epic Games installed, but since my video card is 20 years old it physically won't let my use it.
I am glad that there are people like you that understand me. Tbh if valve lowers their cuts on steam for games to something like 15% instead of 30% epic games won't have exclusives and will just vanish, because this is the only reason why they are better than valve.
The thirty percent also includes more people reached than epic, the ability to easily edit and change any little thing about your store page, built in multiplayer compatibility options and servers + maintenance, and many more smaller abilities, like making trading cards, better bug reporting, or giving specific people, (like youtubers) your game easily. Plus its not nearly as slow. I would not call them better than valve, but it is most certainly better than nothing.
I also hated how when a developer really rubbed it in that there a epic games exclusive (like we get it you got paid the big bucks) it really ruins there reputation cuz by the time your game on steam you lost interest 😅
One major function of GOG and Epic Launcher is to serve as market competition to Steam, to give Valve external pressure to do things and keep prices low. We get more steam sales and new features since the market competition has existed.
NGL although I use the Epic Games Launcher, I do think Epic needs to improve the launcher. I personally would love to just change my PFP on the Launcher.
I remember hopping in a discord call with some friends of mine and they were all in a game of Fall Guys and trying to get me to join. I got it on steam forever ago so I hit launch and it pulled up the Epic launcher. I didn't know it would do this, it had been a long time since I played Fall Guys. But I couldn't join them because I had to friend them on Epic (in case it wasn't obvious already, I don't use Epic enough to have all my friends added on it). It literally took me FOURTY FIVE MINUTES to open the FRIEND MENU. By the time it actually came up, everyone had to go. I haven't even launched Epic since then
Deleted my EGS account in 2019 because I keep hearing all the security issues and mainly play it for fortnight which I got quickly bored of it back in 2017 and never touched it again. I still refuse to re-make an EGS account because of "FREE GAMES" which I say I paid $20 for a uTorrent subscription and go on a treasure spree after that.
i dont mind the Epic games store,i like having a variety of stores rather than just one sole store i dont understand why video game systems dont let you install other operating systems so you can switch stores if you want i've never personally had a problem with them or there games maybe its just a me thing
It's funny how I used to defend the EGS launcher yet I only use it to play Genshin(yeah I'm a loser) and some other free games I actually care for. There will never be a good alternative for steam at least for many decades.
I don't like Epic games at all. They feel so unethical and souless. There tricks and schemes to try get you to switch to it, such as "We made rocket league free! If you downlpad it on epic games store, you get free money!" In reality it is £2 you can only spend on the epic store, and is not enough to buy anything, so to use it you must spend.😢 Also the epic exclusive things are really dumb like you mentioned.
The reason people go to EGS is because MUNEY Fortnite and Unreal Engine money is strong, and any company that is insecure about their product or are desperate for a quick buck will always go to Epic Which is why it's always better to never buy any Epic Exclusives, even after they release on Steam as 90% of the time they're a huge waste of time
darkest dungeon 2 released in early access as an epic exclusive, and the main reason im still waiting for the 1.0 release to play it is cause thats when itll launch on steam lol. my pc isnt great and having the epic games launcher open on my pc makes everything else run slowly as well. its super frustrating.
that's also how hades did it, 1 year of exclusivity of early access and full launch on both EGS and steam this is essentially a loop hole (or hack) for indie devs to have both the exclusivity money and healthy playerbase
I actually bought a couple of games from the Epic Store because of the Epic Coupon which was an ok deal. And it is very funny that the deal got worse when they added the shopping cart, in terms of prices and sales unfortunately Epic is the least appealing for now.
I'm surprised I only saw this video just now. Especially since Epic has been forcing users to agree to their user agreements that outright state you do not own the game you just bought, as well as telling you you don't have the rights to any fan art you make just because something in your art belongs to a game on their store.
Excellent points about having useless launchers. Origin sucked it was just the Battlefield launcher until they came out with the EA Play launcher which brings some substance to the table with more games and a subscription service to effectively "rent" games. Microsoft store was ditched for the Xbox launcher and again had subscription services to play games. GOG is nice cause they have an awesome roster of classic games and they offer numerous compatibility patches for them all as well as the DRM Free stuff. Epic is just like you said the Fortnite launcher w/ free games you can't even set a custom profile picture on there at least the last time I checked which is so bizarre.
i honestly relate to egs being a potato sack it was so bad that i went out looking for open source launchers and found rare, its pretty much got only the ability to download and load games but its fast and works like a charm!!
Recently I wanted to install the evil dead game that came out recently, and since its an epic exclusive, I ended up doing so after ages of groaning. Anyway, I have a monthly internet data limit so I kinda have to budget it especially since my family is in the equation, and… when installing a game, it doesnt tell you the filesize. Haha… lack of basic features… haha… Even if i didnt have a monthly limit… why would I not want to know how much space a game will take up on my disk? Steams free space/game size is literally perfect and not that hard to implement bitch why do you not have it
Which are, like the video stated, likely already for sale on Steam for a very low price, or end up staying untouched anyway. At that rate just pirate them tbh.
A month or two ago, I was going to get UE5 to dig through some game files, and as soon as I saw I needed to ALSO have the Epic Launcher JUST TO INSTALL UE5, I immediately stopped caring. I can literally just go find a file dump online somewhere. The only reason I put in the work to do this kinda thing myself is because I genuinely enjoy seeing the inner-workings of games.
You can call out the store whatever you want. But the amount of actual quality AAA games that'll go on FREE alone is the sole reason i can tolerate it amongst other launchers and somewhat makes it worth it,Especially considering how stupidly expensive they are in other regions. Like i don't remember Steam/GOG gave away games like the entire Bioshock collection,Prey,Sonic Mania,Metro,Nioh,Wolfenstien,Control,Death Stranding etc for Free. and Ya know what ? I kinda wanna give some credit and thank EPIC for letting me play those gems.
@@utfigyii5987 Steam is ALWAYS the best bet. The thing with epic is that it's pretty bloody good when you are in a pretty specific situation to buy something from steam. Like your country, let's say Argentina. For example, RE8 in Steam Arg. Costs around ARS$3.400 pesos, plus the taxes that apply to your purchase, it increase it's price to ARS$4098,36 pesos (if i'm not wrong) which roughly could be translated to $18.7992 US dollars. (Again, if i'm not wrong). Not to mention that Capcom was kind enough to rise their prices here due to people using Argentina as a way to buy capcom newest games at a cheaper price, but also Argentina, being as self destructive as it is when it comes to economy, making steam remove various paying methods to buy on steam. TL:DR; Use steam as your main gaming platform, use Epic as your random Free Triple A drug seller. And remember. Don't drink and drive.
it has next to 0 OPTIONS i can't choose how loud i want the achievement sound to be or if it should even be on at all, so whenever i get an achievement in dying light it just blows my eardrums up, glitches, doesn't load and i have a black square just hanging on my screen for a couple of seconds.
Epic games: “Yo man can I copy your homework?” Steam: “yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn’t look obvious you copied” Epic games: ok *makes epic games launcher*
Now if only Steam copies EPIC's homework and start giving away actual quality gems to play rather than shovelwares per week and the cycle will be complete.
5:14 oh look. I see we can have friends list on Epic Games launcher. But I feel that it misses some things, like archivements, community, discussions, and other. And look to the right. Honkai Star Rail... I see Hoyoverse/miHoYo is in love with Epic Games, that's why Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail never been released on Steam... Except Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai Impact 3rd is the only one game who is on Steam... But fortunately for me, Honkai Star Rail is coming on PlayStation, so thanks Hoyoverse, I guess.
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A reminder that Epic needed 3 years to add shopping cart and in that time. Steam remade the whole UI, revived demos. the steam deck was released. New game searcher and an interactive recommender based on games you like etc....
They only need to add the Heavy update and they fully win
@@sadvec6328 100%. Tho as much i love tf2. I will prefer steam being good over it. Cuz it improve every game
oh and dont forget proton, which helps linux gamers be able to play waaaaaay more games than b4
Also, most of their games still don't support tracking achievements, including many of their current exclusives that do have them on console, such as Kingdom Hearts or even Fortnite itself.
@@csolisr Also Sonic Mania that actualy has in game achiviments but not in the store
epic games is like that kid who your parents always forced you to play with, alone on the sandpit eating his own snot
Yup
Sounds about right for such an inferior launcher
The same thing can be said about Sony.
and the free games they give you are mid
And his parents kept giving you things so you stay
Steam is simply unrivaled in terms of ease of use. At this point I can’t image using something else
eh, GOG galaxy is a nice one, but only because it's basically a mega launcher, which pulls in all your games from other storefronts
I think what makes steam so great is that it is way more than just a "store for games" on steam you have a community, a workshop for modding, a market to sell your cards or your items, you have levels and badges, they curate events on the store like steam grand prix or or clorthaxs steam game hunt, they simply have way more to offer in terms of community and usable content
@@accountid9681 also that GOG is DRM free
Checking screenshots on their Cloud is a nightmare and a half tho.
And Steam's UI is honestly fucking crap. Like the bar is so low.
How to ruin your game's chance of being profitable
Step 1: Make it an epic games exclusive
End.
They will probably put it on the switch later
@@gameappreciation who tf wants to play it on switch
@Electronix the question should be, "How will it run on switch?"
2. Stop updating STW
@@3lectr0nix me
Google Play Games has more features than Epic Games Store does
Idgaf
@@rompa8421 your mom
But less games
Well... you can have a profile picture I guess, but I don't like that you can only choose a handful of pre-made ones. Honestly doesn't look any less bleak than Epic's letter profiles
@@Thornskade The Google Play Store also has reviews though
The worst is that Epic has been doing that for years straight, like, will they ever learn the lesson that this is an absolutely despicable way of attracting people to your platform? I refuse to think so. Metro, Borderlands, Ooblets, Evil Dead, Darkest Dungeon, Axiom Verge, ans the former three are more egregious though. No wonder I refuse to use Epic Games Store even if the weekly free gamea shtick is neat.
Honestly, no joke, good on you for having integrity. But I'm gonna play dead island 2 even if it gets me a spot on the gallows.
@@mint5438 don't pre order.
I get the free games on epic weekly. But i vow to never spend a single cent. That way, it hurts epic since they lose money from the giveaway, and never gain anything from me. Effectively im hurting them by just simply claiming the games and not spending money
@@CoolSs Of course. I'm a monster, not an idiot
EGS exclusive = it's getting pirated
Lack of features aside (which still blows my mind given how long they have had), one of my biggest issues was how quickly (specifically Tim Sweeney) went from "We want to be a competent competitor to Steam" to "We will do whatever is necessary to destroy Steam". I'm all for competition (especially if it gets Valve to fix things), but I have 16 years of amazing memories on Steam and saying you basically want to take them down doesn't quite inspire me to spend money on your storefront.
tbh i dont get all the hate theyre getting, epic is doing some really great things generally speaking... and most people have it for free games anyways so the games being exclusive doesnt change whether u have it downloaded or not.
They don't want to destroy Steam, they want Steam's money. Unfortunately they don't wanna do any work to get it.
@@Arxgxmi Like doing an nft game stealing assets from other games or not fixing the epic launcher
@@Arxgxmi it has more to do with what Epic has done.
Epic's attitude on swiping games to be an exclusivity deal has soured people
Especially when they tried to get a game from a developer, but the developer dared show some integrity to actual make a compromise with Epic while keeping to his promise to his supporters.
Epic didn't like that. And it really torpedoed their slogan of "being for the developer."
On another point, I'm not trusting a company where the Chinese Company Tencent, a company that is actually told by the Chinese Communist Party to spy, has over 40% shares in the company. I'd still like to keep some semblance of privacy left, and most certainly not allow a foreign aggressive country have it.
Sweeney creeps me out. Every time I see statements from the guy, I get this mob boss/god complex vibe. I can't imagine how horrible it would be for this man to own a monopoly over the gaming market, which is exactly what they're trying to do with EGS.
Epic literally permanently banned me from contacting customer support after I tried reaching out to them about a billing issue on their side. The agent refused to do anything, and I was shadow-banned without warning.
For me it happened the opposite when I tried to buy dead by daylight some billing issue occurred and steam helped me so much in that and maybe that's another reason why steam is way better
You're not the only one. They got sued for that and privacy violations and had to pay out over $500 million. Seems they don't mind letting kids buy whatever they want to but when the parents complain and demand their money back, Epic would refuse to refund and lock their accounts. BUT Epic hates it when others try to get more money out of them and sued Apple and Google for "taking too much" of the revenue cut. Epic has also been sued for their habit of stealing dance moves, making them into emotes and not giving the original artist any credit or revenue.
lets not forget about the completely white payment screen which completely contrasts the colours of the launcher
that's such a minor nitpick compared to the other flaws
@@shalvei_Still sucks if you're in a dark bedroom and the launcher flashbangs you
When you say “Akchievement” I smile a bit
I get younger every time he say it.
I remember when Epic said they would stop buying so many exclusives if Steam matched their revenue split. They said with a straight face that they will be less competitive when others get more competitive.
holy shit, even children are more cooperative than that lmao
Most of epics owners never grew up. They are still riding off the coattails of real success.just like how sweeney swears he a conservationist when his crew is one of the greediest on the planet
Why would Steam match the competition's split ? When you have a good service, good servers, good UI, you need to pay your employees, cause they work very well. These guys who gave us the new BPM aren't the people sitting next to Gabe with a big fortune, they're just employees, they need money for food, shelter and health
It's insane how much missed potential EGS has. While Steam has been adding more and more features, the only thing that Epic thought about using their billions on is TIMED exclusivity deals. We could've had a legit competitor to Steam but at this point it's nothing more than a glorified Fortnite launcher and game giveaway machine.
It has unreal too
Yeah, like, the only reason why I even use it is for the weekly free games since I'm broke
@@matts2080 didn’t they delist most of the Unreal games though recently?
@@johnclark926 idk but it is useful not only for games but also animation
@@matts2080 oh you’re talking about Unreal Engine. The game series the engine is named after, Unreal, is entirely delisted off of every storefront.
Epic games is like that rich kid who is kind of annoying, but you still go to his house sometimes because he has a lot of cool games you can play.
The only appeal is the free games and it's not enough for me to give a shit
the thing is Epic games only has Fortnite and free games that are dirt cheap on other platforms
@@BeamDude381 Yeah but when you are poor and can´t afford so many games, even if they are cheap they are worth a ton for a lot of people, especially because some of them are genuinely good games like Celeste, Nuclear Throne and Rayman Legends.
I even got introduced to some games I
didn´t know about and I think are really good like Abzu and A Short Hike.
@@oueoueokok1148 That´s honestly understandable
Recently uninstalled epic games store because even the free games are something I don't give a shit about. It's just wasted space on my pc. And it's not even a lot of space.
I will give epic credit, if it wasn't for the free games I wouldn't have experienced one of my greatest influences in art and gaming as early as I did - Nuclear Throne
I agree, if epic never put death stranding for free I would have never played one the best games ever made.
lowkey, thanks to the free games i got: gta5, death stranding, all bioshock games and much more good titles
@@A8EL Got The Entire Bioshock collection,Prey,Sonic Mania,Metro,Nioh,Wolfenstien,Control,Death Stranding and many more.
Sorry but as much as i respect steam and gog and they are still a much superior storefronts,Their giveaways consists mostly crappy shovelwares.
Atleast EPIC gives away actual gems worth playing.
@@jaysanj152 wait they had nioh and sonic mania, bruuuuh I missed out
@@A8EL Prison Architect... , Death Stranding , Dishonored and KSP
Epic Games Store can’t even add PFP 💀
Yeah I don't get it, it's been on their roadmap for years, if that doesn't show how little they care about their platform then Idk
@@Thornskade too busy adding crossover skins in Fortnite ig 💀
Dear god the absolute size of that games library, I'm jealous.
That many games on CD would require an actual library
@@jakisaii i used to keep my games in a drawer below my bed. 42 ps2 games, ordered by genre, good times.
"So Kingdom Hearts 3 will release on Steam after 2 years, right?"
- Me 🤡
At this point just pirate it.
@@jaxv3r602 bro fkn teach me! 🏴☠
@@darkthunder301 Just pirate it like everybody d'ont be an npc . i d'ont even understand people who buys game solo game on steam or in any launcher
@@Aigle662frileux very cool. But if I didn't make my question clear: _where_ do I go to *start?* Most I'm familiar with I'm RetroArch, and they don't have PS3 let alone PS4 up yet.
Again, I'm showing interest. Just point me in the right direction, not even asking for handholding.
r/piracy has an excellent megathread about pretty much every form of media and websites to pirate them, games included.
another thing is that the epic store constantly logs you out and it's annoying af.
never had Steam do that to me (though granted, the only times i don't use it are when i'm gone from home for extended periods).
DUDE SAME, I have the epic games launcher only to play the rare Fortnite game with my friends, but every time when I decide "hm yes today will be the day when I update Fortnite" after not having opened it for about 2-3 weeks
I have to log back in with my credentials, download the update to Fortnite at 10 MEGABYTES A SECOND (my internet speed is WELL OVER 250 MB/s, Steam handles 120 MB/s VERY EASILY)
5:25 daily reminder that one of the EGS' first selling point was "we will never do sales they take too much off of shmol devs revenue"
Oh, that's rich.
@@axain7784 the worst part ? if I remember correctly they made the first sale actually shop wide without warning anyone, so every game had a promo even if the devs didnt approuve of it, a bunch of games were pulled out from the store during that time because the devs were not happy in the slightest
I think what's most baffling about Steam is they're the only company that people are glad to see as a monopoly, or at least not worried about it. Competitors enter the scene and people get outright pissed off because it does mean they have to start playing their games all on different programs.
But Steam handles its power so scarily well it's unreal. They could easily start becoming well and truly lazy and hostile to modders but they're not. Maybe my standards for companies are just too low now.
idk what part of steam is a monopoly exactly. they dont abuse their power to stay on top, while not giving two shits about the consumers and their product, unlike actual monopolies. the only thing that bothers me is the amount of money they take from game sells (they should reduce it to 10-20% for indie developers imo)
@@Dr_Dan_ A monopoly just describes a company that has a single grip on a market. To be fair it doesn't quite describe Steam, but you don't have to abuse your power to stay a monopoly. Most just do so because they can.
Steam's got its faults but honestly I'm glad their faults are more akin to apathy than outright malice.
The competitor to Steam that’s ever held any real weight to me is GOG, because they try to ensure old games function with minimal end-user tweaking and the no DRM policy. Otherwise you’ve got publisher storefronts like Origins, which tend to be clunky, and EGS, which somehow launches without a shopping cart and ignores every Steam should have taught them.
Steam has its own issues, but Valve are content enough to not try and enforce their monopoly.
People don't want to lose their games forever that is the only truth there
@@Dr_Dan_ that's not a rule, you just see it often because they usually get away with it
I still remember how I was hopeful for Epic making positive changes on the market as i considered the addition of another big player on the market would force both of them to improve. "More competition = more improvement" type of thinking... How wrong i was back then.
Epic offers literally nothing better than Steam did for years, their claim that smaller sale split would make games cheaper was a total lie, genuinely making selling games for smaller devs an actual hustle...
For me the only 2 reasons why you would ever want to visit the store (outside of playing Fortnite) are a slue of free games and exclusives and even then I don't go there.
The only *GOOD* things i can think of is are:
-small indie devs get that crucial boost of cash, ensuring that they can focus on making and improving their games without the fear of going bankrupt in the process
-once the exclusivity is over and the game finally arrives on Steam, i know I'm getting a better product that what Epic users got on launch. Less bugs, more polish, eventual DLC already being added.
Even those "good" things only profit me as a Steam user further down the line.
problem is epic exclusivity deals has killed games, especially multiplayer
nearly all epic exclusivity deal sold less than 100K units, and when it release on steam it sold more (or even double) of the units sold on the timed exclusivity deal
but being that hype for the game is usually at the peak when nearing and upon launch, active player count is abysmal for any competitive multiplayer game
playing in the first 1 year is basically like queueing an unpopular game that has some marketing (maybe only beyond the first month or so)
then after 1 year, since majority of the pre-existing playerbase has moved on to another game. new players on steam still has to struggle to queue for games especially in areas outside US
US may have a lot of people, but active communities throughout the globe is still more player count than just US for a rather popular game
i'm happy for the devs of dead island 2 that they didn't have to waste all those hears in development for nothing, but there's just too few audience to justify continuing long term support for the game or make another game in the franchise (spin-off or otherwise)
it's more likely that if the devs could financially fund the development of another game that they'll try out "new things", likely different direction, genre, even maybe art style as they probably lost the confidence in the dead island franchise financially (and business needs money to survive)
I got an Epic account solely for the free games, I have zero interest in Fortnite, and after a few years of claiming every free game they offered I finally installed the launcher and tried to play something. I want my money back.
Lmaooo
you know that when you want a refund for a free purchase someone messed up real bad
It really isn't that bad
@@imac5834 I have never been able to get a single game to work through EGS. Meanwhile Steam and GoG both work perfectly fine. I want there to be more competition in this market, it would be nice if Epic actually provided some.
I just love how Steam seems to *actually* care about gamers, I've never seen a company do something for Linux before (also the Deck is very easy to repair and use it like any other computer, which is really nice). EGS is literally digging their grave like this.
the only reason i use epic games is for the free games
Me too
same
honestly at that point why not just pirate them while theyre free? not like you stole anything, and you dont have to use the launcher
@@michaelsbasement cause I don't want a virus on my pc
That description fits like, I don't know, everyone who still has the thing installed and boot it like for 5 minutes to get the games
Activision Blizzard is back on steam as well, all recent cod games (except bo4) were ported to steam and mwII was there on its launch
Can you blame them for leaving blop4 behind?
They also left behind mw2cr
And then you get into Epic Games Player Support…
Epic Games has the money, they just don't care. They didn't had a shopping cart at launch, THEY DIDN'T HAVE A EFFIN SHOPPING CART ON LAUNCH.
I remember that I downloaded the epic store for GTA five because my friend said it was free, but after two years, the game disappeared from my library
I wonder why.
i also hate the fact that they literally flashbang you at checkout
If you think the launcher is slow, try accessing the store through the browser! I'm away from my computer for a while and had to use the browser store to get the free games, spent like 15-20 mins to get 1 GAME in my library
If you're on your phone, try using desktop mode. Not using that is absolutely horrible
He showed how slow is the library. Not the store tho
The actual purchasing screen made discord drop calls for my last laptop.
Like how do you mess that up?
You know, I feel like Epic Games only gives out free games to actual remain as a launcher. Like, it provides nothing to the table of QoL
something actually pretty amazing about GoG is that a lot of the older titles they have on their platform come with compatibility and widescreen patches. so it makes that service the go-to place for vintage games.
@@Thornskade yeah, that sounds pretty miserable. having the option to play the game without modern patches would probably be useful.
As much as I love GoG, most of my games are a bit too outdated and some patches legit won't rescue it. But I do admit that they're at least PLAYABLE. That's what counts for me to be honest. At first I only got it for Jazz Jackrabbit but I've been using it for other games too that aren't on steam.
the thing with GOG is that it's like nintendo consoles vs. everyone else's - sure, they're *technically* a competitor, but they do their own unique thing and sometimes even outperform the competition, so it's more like they're in their own league.
@@frostsoul4199 You have the option in Gog. Once you bought a game, you can see in the download-section all the patches to download or not. your choice.
Gog has a place in the world, those old but gold games need a bit of help to run
For me the worst part is that for some reason a couple of games that have launchers like watch dogs 2, if I downloaded from epic the game installs 2 times, and if I uninstall one it just doesn't work, so basically on my PC the game has double the size, and yeah from a darkest dungeon fan I'm waiting for steam as well.
If Epic had literally almost everything Steam had then i feel this would never be a issue
That's the thing about Epic, even though they give away free games all the time, there's no reason for you to spend actual money on their store. Hell, you don't even need to have it downloaded to get the free games, logging in from the browser already gets it done. They just lack any actual features to actually compete with Steam (like all of the other useless launchers), and their exclusivity deals just hurt the industry instead of supporting it, hurting the newly launched games in the process as well
Welp, except for exclusive games. But to be honest, games like Journey, Heavy Rain and Kingdom Hearts are only on PC because Epic approached the devs to port these games from console to PC, so it's cool with me
I buy games on epic, half of my video game library is on it. Personally the prices are better at least in the uk and games go on sale more often. The only issue is the library size. But they are just small. I don’t think the exclusivity is a bad thing, it’s a launcher and needs ways of other people coming to their store.
I don’t get the boycotting, it’s a literal launcher.
@@oo--7714 I don't get it either, it's just a launcher, you can add all your games to Steam as non-Steam games and have most of the features. I mean, maybe it's a principle thing, maybe people want to send a message against exclusivity, but many of those same people tend to say they play on Nintendo or PlayStation which also do exclusives so I dunno what their deal is
@@Thornskade for me, the biggest reason i don't like EGS isn't because it's a launcher.... i mean, i could stand having to use uplay, origin, rockstar social club, etc and a few games with their own dedicated launcher
it's that exclusivity deal on epic most of the time means the game doesn't do well financially, even if the game isn't to my taste it's just a bit unfair to the people that do care about the game
it's the inherent actively playing user spread is terrible on EGS to the point that it's more like a fortnite launcher that you can also buy and launch other games with it, instead of a game launcher
general horrible performance too, i give it a pass when it first got traction but not after years of the bare minimum of improvement
in software development, it's like EGS has only went up by 1 major version in years with the main feature being a shopping cart which is a basic feature of any digital storefront that i even made for an e-commerce prototype back when i was learning programming in under 2 weeks
then the general anti-consumer behavior epic games has, such as tim sweeney admitting that if apple made a special exempt for fortnite to not have to pay a percentage of the skin microtransaction income that he would drop the lawsuit (basically admitting "i want more money, but it's ok if the other doesn't benefit")
a terrible mislead mentioning lower profit cut percentage for games sold on EGS would "reduce games prices", i caught unto it immediately that game prices stay the same and publishers would just make more profit
finally, it just seems like EGS likes to blame others or put other down to make them look good, a few examples being:
- no user review because "review bombing", review bombing only happens if the dev/publisher does not respect the players so this isn't good for user, it's good for making more money for bad publishers and bad devs
- putting steam (a competitor) in a bad light with the "steam takes 30% of profit for game sales" when 30% was the industry standard then had the audacity to claim that "[EGS] will stop buying so much exclusivity when steam lower their profit cut" then steam did overall lower it, but look at epic still buying exclusivity
- claiming apple predatory practice of taking a cut of profit on every sale that is processed through their app store, suing apple claiming that [epic] is doing a good thing for every devs on ios devices but then admit that if apple just don't take a cut from fortnite microtransaction sales while also apple would not give the special privilege to any other dev, [epic] would gladly take it and the lawsuit would've never happened
it's not a big problem at once, it's just [epic] is going in the direction of even more anti-consumer 1 major step at a time ever since they struck gold with fortnite (even then fortnite alone cannot sustain epic forever, all games eventually die out and nobody is sure how tf2 is still alive)
but that's all just my personal opinion, and it's not my business what launcher people uses
@@lifegrain6092 Developers choose to take the exclusivity deal, who should care most about how well their game does. You should take it up with them. I don't see how this is unfair to people who care about the game.
How is Epic Games anti-consumer? The lawsuit was legitimate and against the anti-consumer behavior of Apple, rather. They also technically won as the EU is already forcing Apple to allow third-party software on their devices. I would never touch an Apple device because it would never truly have been my hardware and basically be under full control of Apple so it's funny to me you're using that to call Epic anti-consumer instead, it makes no sense.
GoG also has lots of old games on it (hence the name), so if you're into retro gaming it's good to use for that reason.
Heroic Games Launcher is an awesome alternative front-end. It supports GOG too and is much faster and is less bloated, and as a plus, it runs on Linux.
The fact that epic games made 32 billion dollars last year and hasn’t used any of it to fix there shit launcher says alot
One of Epic Store's selling points is that they don't have user reviews, they "wont allow review bombing".
That shows the disconnect with us the customers.
reminder that Tony Hawk 1+2 is STILL on EGS, and is NOT on steam because of EPIC GAMES EXCLUSHITVITY
my blood boils so much
Get a Xbox and a copy of Jet Set Radio Future. That's what I did and the game is clunky as fuck but it's still fun!
Ahoy matey!
@@BroadwayRonMexico it is so fucking difficult trying to find a pirated copy though
What is annoying are some games that recently announced to be exclusive to epic game store I also heard that the epic games versions of games have issues like lag, errors, etc. I am glad that evil dead the game is coming to steam since that game is so fun especially with crossplay on.
Can confirm about Borderlands 3 on epic. First lag is sometimes even present in single, second u loose access to dlc if you loose internet connection (ofc till you go up again) so ye, free games can't work around that.
Literally, playing Dying Light recently with the bros, i never faced an issue on Steam, but my friends has non-stop issue from profile errors to lobby disconnections, atleast we managed to finish the whole thing including the expansions a day ago lol
@@AhmadWahelsa Did your firends play on steam or epic ?
@@AdnistralSS I already had it on Steam, my friends played it on Epic
When I was getting free games on epic games, I always ended up abandoning them or buying them on Steam instead.
My least favorite part about EGS is just how slow everything is compared to steam. Opening the store, changing pages, downloading, it all takes so much longer than on steam
It just baffles me sometimes how much internet and system power EGS demands only to open a glorified webpage, the amount of times I haven't even been able to claim a play some games for these reasons is disgusting.
I like steam because you can automatically use proton and don't have to do a day of research on how to get the game to boot on Linux. I have Epic Games installed, but since my video card is 20 years old it physically won't let my use it.
Heroic Launcher has you covered but honestly at that point just use Steam
WTF, WHAT KIND OF VIDEO CARD ARE YOU USING?!
I only use epic games for the free weekly games
I am glad that there are people like you that understand me. Tbh if valve lowers their cuts on steam for games to something like 15% instead of 30% epic games won't have exclusives and will just vanish, because this is the only reason why they are better than valve.
They provided a lot of services though for that 30 percent.
The thirty percent also includes more people reached than epic, the ability to easily edit and change any little thing about your store page, built in multiplayer compatibility options and servers + maintenance, and many more smaller abilities, like making trading cards, better bug reporting, or giving specific people, (like youtubers) your game easily. Plus its not nearly as slow. I would not call them better than valve, but it is most certainly better than nothing.
they use that 30% to make even better launcher + linux support you pepega
I also hated how when a developer really rubbed it in that there a epic games exclusive (like we get it you got paid the big bucks) it really ruins there reputation cuz by the time your game on steam you lost interest 😅
And they included achievements so late all the cool games dont have em...
I feel bad for devs who get tempted by the 0% fee for going epic games exclusive, it’s practically guaranteed to kill the game
Epic games fan: I wish we had a good game launcher
Steam: my brother in Christ
One major function of GOG and Epic Launcher is to serve as market competition to Steam, to give Valve external pressure to do things and keep prices low. We get more steam sales and new features since the market competition has existed.
Steam has one big failure and it's that you can't change your account name and I hate it
NGL although I use the Epic Games Launcher, I do think Epic needs to improve the launcher. I personally would love to just change my PFP on the Launcher.
thou has asked too much
I remember hopping in a discord call with some friends of mine and they were all in a game of Fall Guys and trying to get me to join. I got it on steam forever ago so I hit launch and it pulled up the Epic launcher. I didn't know it would do this, it had been a long time since I played Fall Guys. But I couldn't join them because I had to friend them on Epic (in case it wasn't obvious already, I don't use Epic enough to have all my friends added on it). It literally took me FOURTY FIVE MINUTES to open the FRIEND MENU. By the time it actually came up, everyone had to go. I haven't even launched Epic since then
"Man, valve could really use some competition..."
*Epic games store comes out
"Man, valve could really use some competition..."
Its crazy that people get mad at Steam for "monopolistic practices" but the competition doesn't even compare.
The biggest reason I don't use epic games is just because steam is infinitely better, I don't need to switch over... even with the free games lol.
Deleted my EGS account in 2019 because I keep hearing all the security issues and mainly play it for fortnight which I got quickly bored of it back in 2017 and never touched it again. I still refuse to re-make an EGS account because of "FREE GAMES" which I say I paid $20 for a uTorrent subscription and go on a treasure spree after that.
"I am going to get this day... on day one"
-FoekoeGaming 2023
i dont mind the Epic games store,i like having a variety of stores rather than just one sole store i dont understand why video game systems dont let you install other operating systems so you can switch stores if you want i've never personally had a problem with them or there games maybe its just a me thing
2:28 First mention of Epic Games in this Video
Literally the only reason that stor is installed is for the free games every thursday at midday.
I watched one of your videos the other day and now your all over my page, you have some awesome content on here dude.
Water is wet lmao
only reason I still have the epic games launcher is because I have bloons td6 installed from the free winter sale
Honestly when i see something being an epic games timed exclusive, i just pirate it then buy it on steam later
It's funny how I used to defend the EGS launcher yet I only use it to play Genshin(yeah I'm a loser) and some other free games I actually care for.
There will never be a good alternative for steam at least for many decades.
Epic devs need to learn about background preemptive loading...
I don't like Epic games at all. They feel so unethical and souless. There tricks and schemes to try get you to switch to it, such as "We made rocket league free! If you downlpad it on epic games store, you get free money!" In reality it is £2 you can only spend on the epic store, and is not enough to buy anything, so to use it you must spend.😢
Also the epic exclusive things are really dumb like you mentioned.
The reason people go to EGS is because MUNEY
Fortnite and Unreal Engine money is strong, and any company that is insecure about their product or are desperate for a quick buck will always go to Epic
Which is why it's always better to never buy any Epic Exclusives, even after they release on Steam as 90% of the time they're a huge waste of time
darkest dungeon 2 released in early access as an epic exclusive, and the main reason im still waiting for the 1.0 release to play it is cause thats when itll launch on steam lol. my pc isnt great and having the epic games launcher open on my pc makes everything else run slowly as well. its super frustrating.
that's also how hades did it, 1 year of exclusivity of early access and full launch on both EGS and steam
this is essentially a loop hole (or hack) for indie devs to have both the exclusivity money and healthy playerbase
The only thing good about Epic is the revenue cut for developers
I actually bought a couple of games from the Epic Store because of the Epic Coupon which was an ok deal. And it is very funny that the deal got worse when they added the shopping cart, in terms of prices and sales unfortunately Epic is the least appealing for now.
I'm surprised I only saw this video just now. Especially since Epic has been forcing users to agree to their user agreements that outright state you do not own the game you just bought, as well as telling you you don't have the rights to any fan art you make just because something in your art belongs to a game on their store.
Excellent points about having useless launchers. Origin sucked it was just the Battlefield launcher until they came out with the EA Play launcher which brings some substance to the table with more games and a subscription service to effectively "rent" games. Microsoft store was ditched for the Xbox launcher and again had subscription services to play games. GOG is nice cause they have an awesome roster of classic games and they offer numerous compatibility patches for them all as well as the DRM Free stuff. Epic is just like you said the Fortnite launcher w/ free games you can't even set a custom profile picture on there at least the last time I checked which is so bizarre.
Just wait….Epic Games Store will definitely compete with Steam.
i honestly relate to egs being a potato sack
it was so bad that i went out looking for open source launchers and found rare, its pretty much got only the ability to download and load games but its fast and works like a charm!!
what about heroic launcher? it works on Linux too (And the Steam Deck)
Epic was built for publishers, Steam was build for the player.
Just wait for Steam version.
6:25 Not gonna lie, I straight up believed that was a screenshot from youtube for a few seconds.
Achievement
Akchivement?
You mean Akchivement?
Someone literally made an open source replacement launcher for Epic games because Epic is so damn slow
Times EGS exclusive = permanent high seas exclusive for me.
Fkepic ;)
*sighs*
*puts on eyepatch and goes aboard a ship...*
It's one thing stealing a game from Nintendo or a shitty company, but Dead Island 2 dosent deserve piracy just yet bro.
Recently I wanted to install the evil dead game that came out recently, and since its an epic exclusive, I ended up doing so after ages of groaning. Anyway, I have a monthly internet data limit so I kinda have to budget it especially since my family is in the equation, and… when installing a game, it doesnt tell you the filesize. Haha… lack of basic features… haha…
Even if i didnt have a monthly limit… why would I not want to know how much space a game will take up on my disk? Steams free space/game size is literally perfect and not that hard to implement bitch why do you not have it
Yeah that really annoys me. I have limited space on my Steam Deck and SD cards especially so not knowing how big the install is is just dumb
4:03 wrong, minecraft legends is on steam now, not minecraft really, just it's clone, but you got the idea.
These are xbox games, so thats why they are on steam
Dungeons is on there too
IMO, steam doesn't force to link my steam account to third-party game launcher
No tf2 on epic game store no epic games store.
Man I haven't spent a dime on epic but have over 300 games. They put out good quality games for their free weeks
Which are, like the video stated, likely already for sale on Steam for a very low price, or end up staying untouched anyway. At that rate just pirate them tbh.
@@TH_Zireael2077 I'd rather pay zero dollars than buy it on steam. Its literally free.
Foekoes job is basically mostly complaining
Yeah it’s actually getting pretty annoying
@@BuhUhNuhUh Then don't watch him. Shrimple as that
@@Samsonuar Already unsubscribed when I made this comment, I won’t
A month or two ago, I was going to get UE5 to dig through some game files, and as soon as I saw I needed to ALSO have the Epic Launcher JUST TO INSTALL UE5, I immediately stopped caring. I can literally just go find a file dump online somewhere. The only reason I put in the work to do this kinda thing myself is because I genuinely enjoy seeing the inner-workings of games.
When you want free games go to Steam unlocked 💀
Or ovagames. Steamunlocked download speeds are trash unless if u pay
@@skiez7430 But its Free
steam unlocked is a pirated website
@@deadaxe1648 Yes
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classic epic games L
You can call out the store whatever you want.
But the amount of actual quality AAA games that'll go on FREE alone is the sole reason i can tolerate it amongst other launchers and somewhat makes it worth it,Especially considering how stupidly expensive they are in other regions.
Like i don't remember Steam/GOG gave away games like the entire Bioshock collection,Prey,Sonic Mania,Metro,Nioh,Wolfenstien,Control,Death Stranding etc for Free.
and Ya know what ? I kinda wanna give some credit and thank EPIC for letting me play those gems.
I only claim free games that have Multiplayer support, if it's single player only then I'll just go sail the seas.
Yeah i rather buy the games on steam sale than get them for free from ”epic”
@@utfigyii5987 Steam is ALWAYS the best bet. The thing with epic is that it's pretty bloody good when you are in a pretty specific situation to buy something from steam. Like your country, let's say Argentina.
For example, RE8 in Steam Arg. Costs around ARS$3.400 pesos, plus the taxes that apply to your purchase, it increase it's price to ARS$4098,36 pesos (if i'm not wrong) which roughly could be translated to $18.7992 US dollars. (Again, if i'm not wrong). Not to mention that Capcom was kind enough to rise their prices here due to people using Argentina as a way to buy capcom newest games at a cheaper price, but also Argentina, being as self destructive as it is when it comes to economy, making steam remove various paying methods to buy on steam.
TL:DR; Use steam as your main gaming platform, use Epic as your random Free Triple A drug seller. And remember. Don't drink and drive.
Ashley in a suit of medieval armor is something I was not expecting to see any time soon
it has next to 0 OPTIONS i can't choose how loud i want the achievement sound to be or if it should even be on at all, so whenever i get an achievement in dying light it just blows my eardrums up, glitches, doesn't load and i have a black square just hanging on my screen for a couple of seconds.
4:16 bad game jumpscare
Epic games: “Yo man can I copy your homework?”
Steam: “yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn’t look obvious you copied”
Epic games: ok *makes epic games launcher*
wtf does this comment mean? there plenty of launchers lmao
💀💀that is NOT why it's bad
It would be way better if they did actually copy from steam
Now if only Steam copies EPIC's homework and start giving away actual quality gems to play rather than shovelwares per week and the cycle will be complete.
3 years for shopping cart
You can’t even link and re-link your accounts, it’s pathetic! So much for customer satisfaction.
5:14 oh look. I see we can have friends list on Epic Games launcher. But I feel that it misses some things, like archivements, community, discussions, and other. And look to the right. Honkai Star Rail... I see Hoyoverse/miHoYo is in love with Epic Games, that's why Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail never been released on Steam... Except Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai Impact 3rd is the only one game who is on Steam... But fortunately for me, Honkai Star Rail is coming on PlayStation, so thanks Hoyoverse, I guess.