How so? It never once affected me and I consider myself a consumer.

I see, yeah that’s the second argument against epic that I’ve read so far that I would call valid. I never thought about them just doing a google and closing doors.

Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)

Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.

Way harsher build in DRM

Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.

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

Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?

No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support

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).

No mod support

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?

No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)

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?

no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you

I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.

What does Epic offer other than doing the same things Steam does but less well and in a different app?

I’m not going to count, but by my best guess I have now 100+ games on EGS that I haven’t paid a penny for. For me that’s a rather large incentive to have the EGS client installed on my PCs. And once I have both installed anyway, I don’t see any difference between buying on Steam vs. Epic. I just use whatever is cheaper at the moment.

They have a cart like any other storefront. I’m not sure if this was something they had from day one, but at least it’s not something new to the store at this point. But even if there weren’t a cart, how realistic is the scenario for the typical user that they go and buy 10 games all at once? Sounds to me like some fictional scenario to heap unwarranted hate on the epic store.

I mean I get it if someone says “I don’t really mind either way, but if I had to choose I’d rather buy on Steam because it’s slightly more convenient”. But the EGS gets so much hate everywhere and my question is what the problem is with the store that would warrant that much hate? I really don’t understand where that much vitriol is coming from.

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?

I genuinely felt tears well up in my eyes as we watched the Torment Stag boss fight – that moment cemented the fact that I want to play this game.

I somehow have my problems trusting a reviewer who gets teary-eyed because of watching some gameplay video.

Personally, I’ve have a wallpaper folder with around 7k+ pictures I’ve SD create for me. Am I an artist now? Should I put that on my resume? No, I’m not more of an artist as someone who commissioned an art piece from someone else. The only difference is that I tell an AI what I want instead of some person.

I’m not opposed to AI art, but I’m opposed to people who call themself artist because they put in an AI prompt into a textfield. It’s just a fucking cringing joke if I see someone like that call themself artist or “AI artist”.

“Artist”