Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:33:52 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Epic Games app and their gd Store page Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:33:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-E3LOYa1nI7WPzAD82midhzLZK6K8lxpGS3Llv459aQt84lMxpvMuH3dGCWy4P9vzSRhLynnFmOEsHgT!nRqYPSpekjgg+1426pnbaM4JqRYXB4NsByWyjdhyVIpdX3FNpDkGw+sENXgDJlXDLp1dQB+W X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4055 On Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:40:25 -0500, Zaghadka wrote: >Quick question: > >Is there any way to get the Epic Games app to open up to your library >page instead of their store?* I've wondered that too. I've never found a way. It's seems obvious that Epic sees the EGS client not as something beneficial to the end-user but as a means to push their store. It's not a tool meant for gamers to launch games; it's not something for them to learn about games through reviews. It's not something that's designed first and foremost to update games or add mods, or even have features that make playing the game easier and more enjoyable (streaming, voice-chat, screenshots, etc). It primarily exists to shove the store into gamers' faces in the hopes they go, "Oh, I should buy this thing." Which, in and of itself, is not a BAD thing. The actual purchasing experience on EGS is, actually, pretty easy. If all I were interested in was buying stuff from Epic, I'd probably use their client. Click-click-click, bingo-bango, I've got a new game. It's not that bad in that area It just sucks for everything else. And that's the problem. Because online storefronts are a dime a dozen, and you've got to offer something special to make me want to come visit yours. There is /nothing/ special about the EGS client. Like many, the only time I ever open the EGS client is to grab a free game. It's not a "destination" for me, the way Steam or GOG is. The EGS client needs to be something I'll browse just because it happens to be open because I use it for other stuff. But I never open EGS because it has no utility to me, the gamer. It lacks too many features, even compared to its smaller competitors, and against its biggest rival, Steam? It's not even close. The fact that I have a thousand games in EGS doesn't really matter. Most of them I only grabbed because they were free and, anyway, I probably own them on Steam anyway. This is a problem that has been pointed out to Epic for YEARS, and yet they don't do anything about it. User reviews? Nope. Forums? Nada. Workshop? Missing. Streaming? Not here. Screenshots? Why bother? Being able to launch directly into your library, bypassing the store-front? Fuck no! So it is obvious that Epic isn't unaware of these issues. They certainly don't lack the skill or resources to build something better. The only conclusion is that they just don't care. None of that is important to them. Hell, why should they want you to PLAY the games? Just BUY them; that's all that is important. EGS was originally supposed to start being profitable in 2021 (three years after launch). Then that got pushed back to 2024 (well, okay, there was a planetwide epidemic; everybody's business plans got knocked for a loop). Then later, they were saying they might start to see their store become profitable in 2027. Even this seems unlikely now. I can't imagine why that is.