That's true, but they have problems like being 40% owned by the CCP and also being woke. Epic absolutely is not better in this regard.
If you're looking for real competition to Steam, piracy is the closest thing to a legitimate answer you'll get. No political bullshit, and the prices literally cannot be beat.
They tried to kill them off because they were wanting to open a competing market place and google in true monopolistic fashion wanted to buy them to prevent competition. It wasn’t “oh they are woke too we will let them
Be”. It’s, “hey you making money on apps without us getting a cut is not something we want to happen.”
I sometimes run into problems for some games (mostly some indie titles or sims like Ship Simulator Extreme) and needed the forums to find a solution to some common problems. The issue I was having at the time was an issue other Steam users had and since the game is niche, Steam's forums was the only place where I could find some decent troubleshooting help.
So yes, I completely understand the need for forums. I've used them sparingly but often enough to see their value.
Also, for some games I've managed to find out if a game is woke or not. Most people ask these things for most new games (indie, AAA or otherwise) and usually there's a thread or two about how woke a game is. I was able to find out a couple of times that a game was woke before buying it, even though it didn't seem particularly woke from the promo material. It was thanks to the forums that I was able to gather this information. Without the forums I may have added a woke game to my wishlist and purchased it unknowingly.
Do you buy so many games that it legitimately is a chore to buy them individually? Do you play them? (asking as someone with a game library that has a depressingly high percentage of unfinished games)
Edit: the downvote isn't for when someone's triggered. This isn't Reddit.
It is ridiculous they haven't put more effort into it. I'm just a fan of more of the money going to game developers instead of middlemen and gatekeepers.
Sometimes I buy games that have a lot of DLC when they're on sale. I do like simulators, and sometimes they have a ton of DLC. So when buying in bulk, it's so much easier adding them all to the shopping cart at one time.
I used to buy individually but then sometimes I would run into the problem of buying the same thing twice. Steam is nice enough to inform you that you already purchased that item, though, so that's when I started using the shopping cart function more efficiently when buying multiple DLC packs.
I've never used the Epic Store to purchase things, but do they even warn you about duplicate DLC purchases the way Steam does?
That's true, but they have problems like being 40% owned by the CCP and also being woke. Epic absolutely is not better in this regard.
If you're looking for real competition to Steam, piracy is the closest thing to a legitimate answer you'll get. No political bullshit, and the prices literally cannot be beat.
They tried to kill them off because they were wanting to open a competing market place and google in true monopolistic fashion wanted to buy them to prevent competition. It wasn’t “oh they are woke too we will let them Be”. It’s, “hey you making money on apps without us getting a cut is not something we want to happen.”
Well, they don't have these problems because they don't have forums... Or a community hub around the game!
I sometimes run into problems for some games (mostly some indie titles or sims like Ship Simulator Extreme) and needed the forums to find a solution to some common problems. The issue I was having at the time was an issue other Steam users had and since the game is niche, Steam's forums was the only place where I could find some decent troubleshooting help.
So yes, I completely understand the need for forums. I've used them sparingly but often enough to see their value.
Also, for some games I've managed to find out if a game is woke or not. Most people ask these things for most new games (indie, AAA or otherwise) and usually there's a thread or two about how woke a game is. I was able to find out a couple of times that a game was woke before buying it, even though it didn't seem particularly woke from the promo material. It was thanks to the forums that I was able to gather this information. Without the forums I may have added a woke game to my wishlist and purchased it unknowingly.
Epic Games Store doesn't have a shopping cart.
Do you buy so many games that it legitimately is a chore to buy them individually? Do you play them? (asking as someone with a game library that has a depressingly high percentage of unfinished games)
Edit: the downvote isn't for when someone's triggered. This isn't Reddit.
I don't use a so called storefront that lacks even the most basic features of a storefront.
Although Epic is definitely a front of some kind. Just not a store.
It is ridiculous they haven't put more effort into it. I'm just a fan of more of the money going to game developers instead of middlemen and gatekeepers.
Yes.
Sometimes I buy games that have a lot of DLC when they're on sale. I do like simulators, and sometimes they have a ton of DLC. So when buying in bulk, it's so much easier adding them all to the shopping cart at one time.
I used to buy individually but then sometimes I would run into the problem of buying the same thing twice. Steam is nice enough to inform you that you already purchased that item, though, so that's when I started using the shopping cart function more efficiently when buying multiple DLC packs.
I've never used the Epic Store to purchase things, but do they even warn you about duplicate DLC purchases the way Steam does?
That's a good point. Unrelated: DLCs are getting completely out of hand.
Neither does GOG.
Hah, I can honestly say I always refused that.
Yup, there's quite a few competitors willing to take on Steam gamers.