I'm genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student's first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

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[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They can't sell the games cheaper than steam as the steam's conditions doesn't let devs sell games on steam if the game is available for cheaper somewhere else.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is only true for steam keys. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't apply to exclusive games which also don't have lower prices.

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How could it apply to exclusive games if they don't exist in steam in the first place

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Industry standard prices exist. If an exclusive matches them you aren't getting a discount.