Comment by CursedSilicon
12 hours ago
Why aren't the customers going to Epic Game Store? It's the PC, after all. It's explicitly not a walled garden
12 hours ago
Why aren't the customers going to Epic Game Store? It's the PC, after all. It's explicitly not a walled garden
The Epic Game Store is just kind of mid. The app feels spammy, the game selection is less, and it doesn't really offer anything over the existing options beyond the monthly free game gimmick. If they want customers to head there it needs to be better, not just good enough.
EGS has yet to reach the feaure parity of Steam from 15 years ago.
As a user of both EGS and Steam, the one thing that EGS doesn't have that Steam does is multi-threaded downloading. Steam can saturate any connection I've thrown at it, whereas EGS gets a few-hundred mbit and saturates a single CPU while doing it.
Perhaps game devs get a whole bunch of "gee whiz" features from the Steam Platform that Epic Games doesn't provide, but I -personally- couldn't care less about those.
Who knows? Presumably because Steam hasn't done anything to drive them off, they've generally been satisfied with the service, and the titles they want are available. At least that would be my guess based on my personal experience but I assume Valve has a much better grasp of their audience than I do.