I'm genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student's first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Advertising better cuts to publishers doesn't mean much when the price is the same across platforms. If epic was consistently 10% cheaper than steam it would get better traction.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They do often have better sales, but you have to launch the store to know and personally I would rather pay the extra $1 to buy on Steam...

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Steam also has a lot of other stores selling their games though. Unless epic is giving it away for free, I'm probably going to get a better deal through a fanatical bundle or someone else than I would on epic.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

This is true, here in Brazil we have an official key seller called Nuuvem that has prices so good TikTok banned their ads thinking it was a scam, since they often have small discounts even on new games.

Just have to be careful because sometimes the key is for Uplay instead of steam.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They still have to sell for what the publisher/devs want to sell the game for, a bigger share goes to them if it's the same price as it is on Steam.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which I as a buyer don't care about. That's the whole point of the parent.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Just saying that it's not Epic's fault

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

They can't sell the games cheaper than steam as the steam's conditions doesn't let devs sell games on steam if the game is available for cheaper somewhere else.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is only true for steam keys. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That doesn't apply to exclusive games which also don't have lower prices.

[–] whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How could it apply to exclusive games if they don't exist in steam in the first place

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Industry standard prices exist. If an exclusive matches them you aren't getting a discount.