I dislike Epic store even more after reading this info.
- Focus on influences who will act as paid sales force
- Grabbing customer data and giving it to developers when unrelated to their game
- Keeping negative focus on reviews and opt-in reviews on general. I find Steam reviews quite useful most of the times and Steam has great features to filter them
- No discoverability (influencers suck when objectively reviewing games) features. I go through Steam discovery or find interesting game suggestions all the time.
- Still no guides/forums when moneyhatted developers refer to Steam forums for support.
- There is more on external pricing can't be lower than Epic, extra influencer charges to developers and so on.
This shit is anti-consumer and really will not work for most smaller devs either. Epic is throwing Fortnite money to try and build this terrible (for PC gamers) endeavor and I really dislike it. Meh.
This is exactly what I took from it. After reading that article I'm even more against the idea of the Epic store. It sounds like an absolute disaster for consumers while only existing to serve the interests of the select few hand chosen developers, and screw everybody else. This isn't even getting into the features like family sharing and steam-link streaming that will now be unusable for games that were previously set to release on Steam. I just fail to see any positives for the consumer, and it seems like smaller developers may struggle to even get on the store at all, let alone be noticed due to the non-existent store searching system. I've also been receiving nonstop emails about people trying to get into my Epic account all because I played Fortnite once, which is something I've never had to worry about with any other launcher I've used, so I don't even trust them with my credit card details.
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