I'm genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student's first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

"Even if I don't ever buy anything" is why I doubt it's going to work out. Epic is publicly right now saying that it's great at acquiring users. Yeah, I'll bet it is. People love free stuff. Is it great at turning those users into paying customers? Even at wholesale rates, I've gotten hundreds of games for free from Epic, which means they spent thousands of dollars on me, and I can't foresee an instance where I'll ever give them a cent back.