Do you hate Epic Games Store?

Hate? Lol. No. At the end of the day gaming is just a hobby. Pointless to get all riled up.
However, I'd rather not use yet another platform. I would even pay a bit more to keep everything in Steam (as I did with the AC games) .
If they release something exclusively I really want to play I'll buy through Epic. Simple as that.
But until now I have zero interest in what they are offering.

Just keeping an eye on how everything is evolving around Epic. I sincerely doubt its gonna be a success.

What a stupid group

Nope.

I want epic to provide some healthy competition. They have to entice people to pay attention somehow - Metro is a good way to do that. Sure it ain't the best possible outcome to make it almost exclusive. From what I gather you can preorder it on steam - (I'm very much against preorders, but this looks like it's gonna be great, still I wouln't preorder unless I'm doing it to help the developers, similar to kickstarter) and it will be available on steam a year later, so it isn't really an issue unless you HAVE to play it right away.

I can't stand the whole "I dont want another launcher cause I'm lazy", "lord Gaben take my wallet, steam is so amazing". It's just a goddamn platform where you have games. You can always remove it from your PC if you cannot stand having it installed. I realize some people are collectors, achievement whores and what not. Personally I wanna have the experience of playing a game, and if it is a multiplayer game - I wanna play it with my friends, regardless of which launcher I use.

Just a part of my opinion since all the hate posts, PC gaming is ending, Epic sucks posts around the web have been annoying me.

If you've read this far - thanks, and have a great day. :)

Yes, yes i do. I mean, i don't use it and I know pretty much nothing about it, I just saw some shiny new bandwagon passing by and just had to hop on...

For me the EPIC game store is the product of our selfish behavior + accepting steam over years in its bad state...

Now we get what we deserve after building up and fanboying steam... other companies options are limited to ambush Valve with their own finances... sure they can try to builed up own community etc. but thats how "normal people" and not "buisness man" think... look at GOG and friends... imo GOG only still exists because of CD Project, without it would have closed ( IMO! )...

No, hate is very a strong emotion - I'm rather underwhelmed by their effort. The infinite source of income that is Fortnite will eventually run dry and if EPIC can't manage to establish a solid number of users at that point, the launcher will disappear into insignificance. I mean you can try to bait people to use your launcher by throwing money at them only for so long. Apart from free games and release-exclusives that are more expensive to europeans, they just have nothing to offer....

Hate... isn't a strong enough word.

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Only reason to hate it is the exclusive deals.

You people need to do some research before you make a fool of yourselves. Valve has done many despicable things, yet nobody seems to notice or care. You give them credit fo the good and hide the bad under the rug.

Even My Potato can't open the launcher properly

LOL, kids xD No other problems outta there?

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No i dont hate it. Its good with competition.

Yes, epic games steal games from steam

Group looks like 0 percent constructive, 100 percent destructive. I am itching to report it as a hate group but i want to listen group's intentions first. What do you believe? What do you want?

Do you believe you can fly? Just click the link xD

Well, I'm not a fan of the Epic store, but they just launched it, google Steam's interface and functionality when they started. I'm sure they will make it better. Don't like exclusives, but can understand the situation, they need to attract users. Also I don't care where I start my game, just want it to work without problems.
But... why would you start a hate group? What do you want to achieve? Showing your disappointment is OK, but this won't help a bit.

I don't hate it. I don't like it either.
It's good to upgrade the competition and attack steams lone reign.
Sadly I don't want to change. The only thing I am currently very very annoyed about is...
THAT METRO EXODUS WON'T BE ON STEAM >_<'
Jeez. I would have been sure to buy it in the first week after the release, but well... since they said they won't be on steam until 02/2020 (if I got it right) ... I guess I'll have to wait.

That there's such a reaction to just having your game on another launcher just shows how well entrenched the Steam ecosystem is, and why competitors are necessary.

That said, I also don't like having my games spread among 5 or 6 different launchers, so I would instead prefer there to be some standard, federated way of managing things like reviews, achievements, CDNs for installations and updates, and optional communications/presence features when desirable. This is in contrast to one company monopolising a customer-base.

In reality, publishers would probably still hire a company like Valve to manage a lot of these things, but even if they hired a competing company, the customer would not be burdened by the choice. In my opinion, this is what Microsoft should have tried to do while positioning some Azure infrastructure as the "default" choice for publishers; they could even throw in the very good (albeit weakly made) proposition from a few years ago: Buy a game and play it on either Xbox or Windows.

Sadly, open, standard protocols and federation seems to have been a fad of the late 90s and early 00s, with most popular services now being closed gardens with power horded centrally.

So, I personally don't hate Epic Games Store and I can see why companies go for exclusivity deals, because most people I know buy on Steam regardless of whether it's available somewhere else for cheaper (though GoG is an occasional exception for good reasons) - and make no mistake, if the numbers showed that people were buying elsewhere because of discounts, Valve would just dip into its pockets and match them.

However, I do understand how exclusivity is anti-choice, and therefore anti-consumer - it's tough being caught between a rock and a hard place. The only pro-consumer way of going up against Valve is an open standard, and currently GoG is the closest we have if only for its launcher and ecosystem being optional.

well, they gave me subnautica, game is awesome but, i still wait for them to kick the bucket so i can start throwing my eggs at them

I hate haters, actually; I hate myself too in fact :(

No, i hate the comercial practices in wich are involved Epic Games and some "AAA" developers/studios/publishers. Epic Store made me re-evaluate the value of Steam, after see the bare bone plataform that epic offer me and try to made me swallow it by force using their wallet to buy "temporal" exclusivities.

im just gonna leave this here
https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/aqympd/physical_copies_of_metro_exodus_have_shipped_with/

Well, my first contact with support is not good. :/