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I don't really get that sentiment. You buy a game -> You download the game -> You press the icon on the desktop/start menu/wherever -> you play the game.
What does it matter what store the game was bought on? The buying experience is a typical store experience on each platform. On my fiber connection the download speeds between epic and steam are both maxing out, and both synchronize saves across my PC and Ally. What else is there that makes one store so much better than the other, other than fanboyism and nostalgia?
Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven't used it for over a year)
Way harsher build in DRM
No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day
No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support
No mod support
No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don't need these, but still a missing feature for others)
no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you
Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.
Doesn't this just affect pirates? I don't really care as long as it doesn't mean that performance is sacrificed.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?
What are you going on about here? Every single title I played from the EGS I could play with controller just fine (I don't do K+M so I play everything with controller and I never had a problem games just auto-recognizing both my bog standard xbox controller as well as whatever is build into the ROG Ally. Also the 8bitdo fighting stick works out of the box).
First real argument against EGS I've read so far. But doesn't mods just replace files in the file system anyway? What would you need a storefront support for?
Yeah, they aren't for me either, but I can see that there are people who would see this as something positive to have. But then again, isn't everything running in discord today anyway?
I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.
Steam offline mode doesn't need to phone home, you can use steam entire offline as long as you're not downloading any new games or updating