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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip -4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, obviously they'd want to earn it back and yeah, obviously from customers. You make that sound malicious. Steam is doing the same thing. With the amount of money Steam makes, they could drop their share in half and still make a killing. Epic wouldn't have to do anything that Steam isn't to recoup costs if they were competitive with Steam.

That said, Epic does take less revenue from developers, which is nice. This doesn't translate to less for the end user though because Valve uses their market dominance to force the same price across marketplaces or you aren't allowed on Steam. It's fucked up.

[-] jeeva@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just pointing out, once again, that games sold on the Epic store can be different prices to Steam. "Valve uses their market dominance to force the same price across marketplaces" is a nonsensical, incorrect statement.