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Never said what they are doing isn't shitty, but it's their ONLY option if they wanna succeed

They will get over it like every time it happened on consoles

My best case scenario is this: Epic store makes good on the roadmap and actually meets or exceeds Steam, causing a loss of sales on steam forcing Valve to do their fucking job and curate that shit giving us 2 very solid choices of platforms to buy games from. Maybe even get Half-Life 3 as valve tries to win back customers My boy sterling lays it out better He does another video pointing out Epics flaws too, but we all agree on what those are and why they are stupid so I dont feel the need to post that vid.

I actually browse the store all the time, or at least I used too. Pre-greenlight was a golden era of discovering new IPs for me. After that though, it's too risky to try anything new and NO ONE is able or willing to sift through all the bullshit to find actual games anymore. It's also no one but valves job to even try too, but they wont (curator and tag system were designed to dodge that responsibility)

Imagine going to steams upcoming releases and NOT seeing 6000 asset flips instead of actual titles. That change alone would be a benefit. Also, we bitched at Microsoft for doing this on the 360 last gen.... But it worked out for everyone eventually: ps3 got held up to a higher standard and created PlayStation Plus and Customers saw a quality hike in exclusives all around. Microsoft needed to do it because of the poor performance of the original xbox and the massive success of the ps2. Epic is trying the same thing.

Honestly, as a platform, GoG is objectively better. It lacks innate DRM, has all proper features of a digital storefront (friends, auto-updates, cart, etc) and matches, in not beats, steams sales. There are 2 main reasons it hasnt topped steam: It's focus more on older titles, and people wanting all their games under one roof. The first reason is their own choice, while the second is something ALL digital storefronts have to contend with due to Steam's age. As for the goodwill thing: At first steam was highly curated and exclusive which ensured that customers knew that if it was on there then it met a certain standard (i.e. it worked and wasn't illegal). This built up a massive amount of faith in the platform for both game devs, who got free publicity by just being on there, and Customers who knew that anything they bought was checked to ensure that it worked as intended. After the advent of Greenlight, though, the overall quality dropped and it became harder and harder for new games to be found under piles of DLC and Asset flips. A problem that has only gotten worse since then.

Nah, steam takes 30% regardless. Thats why uplay and origin became a thing and why activision decide to attach cod to the blizz launcher. Epic store can only grow at this point. Publishers are greedy and will favor whatever gives more money every time.

I don't see a problem with it. It's a common thing on consoles so why not between PC online retailers? They need SOMETHING to break the "I'll just get it on steam like all my other games" mentality.

I fully understand why people arent happy about the epic store, and all the features they lack... But fuck steam right now. Valve has been coasting on good will earned years ago long enough. I hope the epic store does take off, if for no other reason than to get valve to pull it's head out of it's ass. I mean, Steam was built on the back of half-life so why can't the epic store be built on the back of fortnite? The way I see it they are taking full advantage of their excess money and valves utter disregard for quality control.