Subject: Re: Epic's 'it's all for the developers' doesn't seem to be impressing the developers


Speaking of Epic Game Store:

[and I know, I'm really the only one speaking about it...
but I find the whole thing so /fascinating/. Here's Epic,
with decades of game's development and oodles of market
research and billions of dollars, with a self-set goal
of out-doing Steam... and yet they produce the world's
worst launcher and do nothing to improve it despite
everyone telling them exactly what they need to improve
it. It's a baffling amount of incompetence that I can't
help but marvel at! Hence the constant posts. ;-)]


But Epic has announced that their EGS client will be getting an
overhaul.* Will they finally create a viable competitor to Steam,
making it feature-comparable?

Well, you tell me... because the features they are adding is 'cross
platform text chat', and adding player profiles and avatars! And maybe
later in the year, EGS will be getting voice chat!

Also, good news for third-party developers: if you sell games on EGS,
you'll be able to start selling "Fortnite" cosmetics, as well as
avatars for player's EGS profiles! (Please ignore that fact that even
Epic has reported that Fortnite has peaked and is slowly declining in popularity. It's very important to get your Fortnite cosmetics ;-)

You know, assuming any of this stuff actually gets developed. It
doesn't exist yet. It's just an announcement, not an actual release.

No news on adding a workshop, VR support, an equivalent to Steam
Input, family sharing, proper screenshot and streaming support,
forums, user reviews or anything like that. But who wants any of that
when you can get profiles and funny hats in Fortnite?!?






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* announcement here https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-games-store-2025-year-in-review



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Subject: Re: Epic's 'it's all for the developers' doesn't seem to be impressing the developers

On a related note:
(related in the sense I get to bash Epic again. C'mon, it's a fun
hobby!)

Apparently Epic has deleted their roadmap for the product development
of their Epic Game client. Or at least so claims some random person on
Reddit*

I mean, who knows what that really means. Maybe they just don't want
to use Treo to share the roadmap. But given how the client has been in
the news recently and even Epic recognizes that it's bad, you'd think
they'd be careful about mis-steps like this.

Maybe they borrowed the GOG marketing team? ;-)





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* trustworthy? Who knows. But I've got a hobby! ;-) https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1rfbx18/epic_has_deleted_its_entire_epic_games_store/

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