Suppose you are on Steam browsing the list of newest releases, and you stumble across a game like Trials Rising, and think to yourself "hey, the previous games in this series were quite fun. I'll check this out." So you click on the link and go to the game's page, and what do you see?
Oh, "Mixed" reviews. Less than stellar. This immediately gives you a warning that maybe the game isn't actually that good, or that there's some problem with it. You can then scroll down the page and actually read user reviews to see what the problem might be. Why are people giving it negative reviews? This may well be useful information affecting your purchase decision.
Or suppose you are having some kind of problem with a game you are playing. Maybe it's a technical issue, or you are simply stuck, or there's some other kind of problem or question you want to ask about. Well, easy enough, you go to the game's page, click on the "discussions" link, and you are taken to the Steam forum for that particular game, where you can read people's posts and ask questions. Often even the developers of the game themselves will be reading and sometimes even answering people's questions eg. about technical issues! This is quite convenient, as you don't need to go to some third-party site, or the developer's own website, create new accounts and go through all those hurdles, just to ask a simple question about the game.
Is any of this available on the Epic Games Store? Nope. You only see what the developers want to see, you see absolutely nothing from other users, and there's no mechanism to discuss or ask questions about the game with other users or the developers themselves. You get no warnings from other users if there are some quality or technical issues with the game, and you can't discuss the game with anybody or get help with it.
There are also many other defects, such as no cloud backups of your save data, no offline mode (ie. being able to launch games without an internet connection), and no Linux support.
People were already criticizing the Epic Games Store for these things almost a year ago. Has Epic Games solved any of this?
Nope. The store still looks pretty much the same as it did a year ago, and almost no visible development has been done to it, and none of these features have been added or shortcomings fixed.
It seems that Epic Games is more interested in their predatory hostile takeover tactics, trying to get a monopoly status for massive amount of games, than actually making a quality product that benefits the end consumer.
Oh, "Mixed" reviews. Less than stellar. This immediately gives you a warning that maybe the game isn't actually that good, or that there's some problem with it. You can then scroll down the page and actually read user reviews to see what the problem might be. Why are people giving it negative reviews? This may well be useful information affecting your purchase decision.
Or suppose you are having some kind of problem with a game you are playing. Maybe it's a technical issue, or you are simply stuck, or there's some other kind of problem or question you want to ask about. Well, easy enough, you go to the game's page, click on the "discussions" link, and you are taken to the Steam forum for that particular game, where you can read people's posts and ask questions. Often even the developers of the game themselves will be reading and sometimes even answering people's questions eg. about technical issues! This is quite convenient, as you don't need to go to some third-party site, or the developer's own website, create new accounts and go through all those hurdles, just to ask a simple question about the game.
Is any of this available on the Epic Games Store? Nope. You only see what the developers want to see, you see absolutely nothing from other users, and there's no mechanism to discuss or ask questions about the game with other users or the developers themselves. You get no warnings from other users if there are some quality or technical issues with the game, and you can't discuss the game with anybody or get help with it.
There are also many other defects, such as no cloud backups of your save data, no offline mode (ie. being able to launch games without an internet connection), and no Linux support.
People were already criticizing the Epic Games Store for these things almost a year ago. Has Epic Games solved any of this?
Nope. The store still looks pretty much the same as it did a year ago, and almost no visible development has been done to it, and none of these features have been added or shortcomings fixed.
It seems that Epic Games is more interested in their predatory hostile takeover tactics, trying to get a monopoly status for massive amount of games, than actually making a quality product that benefits the end consumer.
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