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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)
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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (39 children)

My launcher shows that I have 379 games from Epic. Not DLC, not demos. Full games.

I have never given Epic a single cent and I never will. (That is to say, until they offer me something that makes me want to use their platform). They have no killer features - AT ALL.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To make it worse, I have all these games, but I still rarely play them. Not that it’s a bad selection, but between steamdeck, gamepass and just a crazy backlog on Steam makes me rarely think of Epic store.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well that's at the crux of it, indeed. Steam has these killer features that enable and empower me as a gamer.

    Then there's Epic that still doesn't have controller support.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, what? No controller support?

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    That's disingenuous. The games have controller support, as you'd expect them to. EGS itself doesn't have an outside-the-games input layer like Steam Input.

    But you can always load up an EGS game in Steam as a non-Steam game and have full access to Steam Input on it that way, so why would Epic spend time and effort re-inventing the wheel when they have other priorities?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But you can always load up an EGS game in Steam as a non-Steam game and have full access to Steam Input on it that way, so why would Epic spend time and effort re-inventing the wheel when they have other priorities?

    Why would Epic implement a feature when I could just run Epic games through Steam? Why don't I just use Steam then?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe the game was free on EGS but not on Steam?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    More accurately: the games have support for Xbox styled controllers, because Windows ships with support for that. However, they usually don't have support for PlayStation controllers unless the game actively adds support for them, or Steam Input deals with converting the controller inputs to Xbox format on the fly. Most of the time, Epic exclusives do neither of the above.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Ok cool that makes way more sense.

    But.... If I am gonna buy the game elsewhere and then port it into steam, for no discount..... Why not just buy it on steam, and not bother with the extra steps?

    And by that I mean, it sounds like a waste of time to buy from epic, since I get more features for the same price elsewhere. So whats such an important priority?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I spent about $600 with epic. All of that was on fortnite skins. None of it on games.

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