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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I gave Epic's store a chance but even after all this time it's still shit and very far from feature parity with Steam. There's not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

I never gave it a chance, as theit practice of paying for exclusivity is infuriating to me.

Make your shit better. Hell, make it comparable, and charge a lower cit (so devs make more), and I'd support then.

Paying to make the market more closed off sucks.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I gave it a chance when they took over Rocket League. The damn platform doesn't even support profile avatars while Steam did. So to get a basic nice feature working all you had to do was... not use their platform.

They still don't have avatars.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They absolutely slaughtered rocket league. They even put the dumb cyber truck in it lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh really? I haven't played since they disabled trading items.

I mean, the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars, and you'll probably get better FPS due to the lowered polygon count! But yeah... no bueno.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars

It's actually quite close to the real version.

So no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen it, but I thought it might be better than the Grog or Scarab.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it might be better than the [...] Scarab

Surely you jest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I went and played a few games. You're right, the cybertruck is the worst looking car in the game by far.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

FWIW, my understanding is that the owner of Epic is actively anti-Linux, so your third feature is a unlikely at best. The fourth was only remotely likely due to market share.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Heroic launcher works pretty well to get epic and gog games in the deck. But yes, support could be better, especially since i remember unreal tournament being Linux friendly early on.