Epic Games is adding this feature...

[Crix]

Not sure if anyone has noticed but Steam should probably start considering the Epic Store as a serious competitor. The majority of my interest with Steam has been because of the achievements add that and the free games which are good free games.

What are your thoughts about this? I notice the only part that is missing from Epic Games is their community but I don't know if that's a bad thing.

[Ogami]

Acheivements were added 2 years ago or so. I think its the "5% cashback" on every purchase.
Which is more of a sign how desparate EPIC are and how bad the yearly progression reports have been.
They have fallen massively behind their launch plan and are nowhere near where they wanted to be at this point regarding market share.
Basically without Fortnite they would be completely irrelevant.
Nobody buys games on there, the average EPIC user spend like 4 bucks in 2022 on the store which is pathetic compared to Steam.
Most users play the FTP games and grab the weekly free games and thats it.

EPIC is still as far from being a serious competitioner to Steam as when they launched.

[Komarimaru]

Epic has learned the hard way, that buying exclusives, and giving away free games, isn't how you do business. Most everyone I know uses it strictly for the free games and hasn't purchased a single things from the store.

It's a money sink, and hasn't made a profit yet.

[Aluvard]

Things must be bad, that they're using such means (5% cashback).
It's naive to think that, they would be so friendly if everything was going well for them.

[ReBoot]

引用自 Aluvard：

Things must be bad, that they're using such means (5% cashback).
It's naive to think that, they would be so friendly if everything was going well for them.

So Sweeney's playing loss leader once again?

[bidulless]

引用自 Crix：

Not sure if anyone has noticed but Steam should probably start considering the Epic Store as a serious competitor. The majority of my interest with Steam has been because of the achievements add that and the free games which are good free games.

What are your thoughts about this? I notice the only part that is missing from Epic Games is their community but I don't know if that's a bad thing.

Hello

Nah , epic store is just a joke, the real contender for valve is microsoft....

[Ogami]

引用自 bidulless：

Hello

Nah , epic store is just a joke, the real contender for valve is microsoft....

Correct and thats why those two did the smart thing and actually are working close together with the Microsoft games releasing day 1 on Steam and their own store.

Same for EA and UBISOFT who both came crawling back to Steam after years of " we dont need Steam ! " and EPIC exclusive deals.

Steam is still the big player on the market nobody can ignore and there is still more money to make here with sales then with all the exclusive money deals with EPIC.

[Yasahi]

引用自 ReBoot：

引用自 Aluvard：

Things must be bad, that they're using such means (5% cashback).
It's naive to think that, they would be so friendly if everything was going well for them.

So Sweeney's playing loss leader once again?

More like doubling down on being a loss leader in every possible way. Unless they're completely stopping those free handouts that is.

[Crazy Tiger]

引用自 Crix：

What are your thoughts about this?

My thoughts are that all such things aren't that relevant as long as their catalog remains as limited as it is. Which is the same issue GoG has for me.

[JVC]

Epic games still can't turn a profit. Eventually someone will pull the plug on them.

[RasaNova]

引用自 Ogami：

引用自 bidulless：

Hello

Nah , epic store is just a joke, the real contender for valve is microsoft....

Correct and thats why those two did the smart thing and actually are working close together with the Microsoft games releasing day 1 on Steam and their own store.

Same for EA and UBISOFT who both came crawling back to Steam after years of " we dont need Steam ! " and EPIC exclusive deals.

Steam is still the big player on the market nobody can ignore and there is still more money to make here with sales then with all the exclusive money deals with EPIC.

Yeah I was looking at some Epic earnings charts & reports a while ago. I'm too lazy to find them again but from what I remember, their main income sources are Fortnite and Unreal Engine. They didn't expect EGS to be profitible for the first several years, but their projection was that by 2023-2024 they would have enough of the market share to reverse that. Kinda seems like a hell of a gamble to me.

[Haruspex]

引用自 Dilynwrcrist：

引用自 Sleepy Yoshi：

I thought he was talking about Epic's achievement system. Really wasn't very clear. Either way, go with the service that provides you with what you want as a consumer. That's always been my take on Steam vs x, y and z.

exactly, I use multiple launchers/platforms, committing yourself to any single business or platform isn't loyalty, it is stupidity.

Personally, I'm not committing myself exclusively to Steam so much as I'm specifically excluding Epic. While most of my stuff is on Steam, true, I do have accounts on GOG, EA, Ubisoft, Itch.io, Microsoft, Playstation, Nintendo, and Humble.

Epic and Tim Sweeney can eat it.

[Start_Running]

引用自 He11y^：

引用自 Start_Running：

You'd think that But GoG's waning performance says otherwise.

I'd say it's arguable if the gog had the same game pool as steam (especially modern ones).

They have a lot of the modern games Steam does. but tryue, their no DRM policy kinda gimps them. Which is why STeam doesn''t deny dev pubs the ability to add their own drm and launchers

引用自 Stiletto：

引用自 Start_Running：

YOu know you can just 'not use the Steam Forums' right. in which case STeam has the best set up. A forum for those that wants to use it, and forums that can be igbnored by people people that don't.

Why are you assuming that user doesn't know that?

Because if the know it, it makes the complaint pointless.
So either the person is blowing pointless hot air, or they didn't know.
I went with the option that made them seem less silly.

引用自 Harusp3x：

引用自 Dilynwrcrist：

exactly, I use multiple launchers/platforms, committing yourself to any single business or platform isn't loyalty, it is stupidity.

Personally, I'm not committing myself exclusively to Steam so much as I'm specifically excluding Epic. While most of my stuff is on Steam, true, I do have accounts on GOG, EA, Ubisoft, Itch.io, and Humble.

Epic and Tim Sweeney can eat it.

EPic simply hasn't done enough to warrant me tolerating a 4th launcher. I have Steam, Battle.net, and Origin/Whatever. UI don't feel like tolerating more than that.

[Brian9824]

The thing is I woudln't trust EPIC at all until its stable. It's hemmoraging money non stop, and the only reason its not out of business is they are pulling money from Fortnite to keep it alive. Over a BILLION in losses so far, and if it doesn't become profitable they will kill it eventually.

The problem is they backed themselves into a corner and they only have the users because they give away stuff. They stop giving away stuff and their users disappear.

So for now i'll just keep taking their free stuff like everyone else and see what the future holds for them

[Ogami]

引用自 brian9824：

The problem is they backed themselves into a corner and they only have the users because they give away stuff. They stop giving away stuff and their users disappear.

Yuuup. Many forget that the " one free game each week" was supposed to only last the first year.
But they feared such a huge drop in users that they kept it going for nearly 5 years now.

[Chesmu]

You said everything other than what "this feature" means.