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Epic gave away nearly 600 million games in 2024, and it's 'not slowing down' for 2025 (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

A few that come to mind

The review system isn't nearly as good
Tag searching is a joke compared to steam
No steam achievements
No direct access to updates and patch notes
No game activity log, showing achievements you got and friends activity
No concepts like free weekends and the such
No dynamic collections
Poor insight on performance with controllers or hardware like steam deck or rog Ally
No where near the level of profile creation and customization
No forums for game discussion
No community content for guides and controller layouts
No overlay options
No mobile app
Nothing like steam work shop
No DLC downloading management like steam
No curator groups to follow
Unable to follow developers
No remote play together
Lack of something like big picture mode, for full controller playing. I use this a lot when I hook my PC to my TV for couch gaming.
Lack of inventory and card items
Built in FPS counter missing
Beta and play test environment support
Family sharing
Remote game streaming
Built in voice chat
Rich chat that shows what game friends are playing and what they're doing with a direct way to invite to game or invite to watch
Seemless refund policy

[–] JasSmith 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And you think Epic implementing some or all of these would encourage Steam users to switch? Why would they? Steam already offers all of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm saying that if they want to compete with another company they need a compelling offer, one that at least has feature parity on the big ticket items. Yes, you would then need to work to attract people, but a bare bones store front like they have is a huge roadblock. People feeling like making the switch means they lose things is not a way to encourage adoption.

[–] JasSmith 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't think feature parity would entice anyone across. It would need to be much better than Steam to entice migration, and it's hard to conceive how much work and money that would require.

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

I agree, is why I said at least. That matches the current offering people are already embedded in. Now you need to entice. I think the biggest issue they face is how much history people have with that platform, there already so bought in. Literally. With tons of games, friends, and achievements already there, it would take a ton for most people to just walk away from that.