Around mid March is was shared by every media outlet that while Epic Games Store has some missing key features they have a roadmap with which they'll implement the key features through this year.
This is an important subject as many people are saying that their main painpoint with the store is that it is too barebone and it misses some really important features. For example this topic came up during the announcement of Borderlands 3 EGS exclusivity. In that case Gearbox president Randy Pitchford told that the game won't release on today's EGS but on September's EGS and according to their roadmap they will implement many key features till that date.
So I thought it's worth checking how EGS was able to keep their short term targets. So I went to their public roadmap which is available here:
https://trello.com/b/GXLc34hk/epic-games-store-roadmap
Here we can see that they actually had 6 items targeted to be released during April, namely:
- Search by Genre and Tag
- Install Management "Under the Hood Overhaul"
- Improvements to Offline Mode
- Store Video Hosting
- Store Page Redesign
- Improved DLC Support - Multi SKU
While some of these are not precisely defined features or not targeted mainly towards end-users thus hard to estimate whether they consider it done or not what I was able to check are certainly missing. We can't search by genre, tags seemingly don't even exist, install management at least from our point of view is the same as before, preload isn't possible, etc...
If I've missed something and you can find any of these (or any other) improvements feel free to share but according to what I've seen I am afraid that since they were not able to keep even their short term plan they certainly won't be ready with the launcher Randy visioned until September...
Edit: since my post was written they pushed all above items at least 1 month later on their roadmap.
