And this post is why those Steam flaws you listed at the end will never change. Steam has been around for over a decade, yet they haven't figured out how to lower the amount of trash or to prevent "problematic" games from appearing on the platform.From a youtube comment, in handy format, the difference between Steam and Epic:
The Epic store has:
no cloud saves
no user profiles
no user reviews (unless opted in by devs)
no forums
no friend activity
no mod distribution
no groups
no item trading
no anti cheat support
no library sharing
no library sorting
no streaming to other devices
no broadcasting
no screenshot sharing/capture
no controller support
no user created guides
no wishlists
no automatic refunds
no achievements
no 3rd party keys
Steam has:
A lot of trash games, and some problematic ones that get removed.
It should be painfully obvious to anyone with common sense that Jim is being anti-consumer here. Praising Epic is woefully misguided.
Despite this failure, any time someone brings up valid criticisms of Steam, there's a strong defensive response. None of those items on the Epic store list of shortcomings is insurmountable, and so theoretically they could address them in the future. With Steam, it's impossible to envision them changing their approach unless there's a financial incentive, and it's not anti-consumer to sigh in relief at the appearance of some external pressure.