• Strykker@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Epic games made their store UI so bad that buying games on it initially was actually frustrating and difficult. It might be better now, but at the time you had no shopping cart and had to go through about 10 menus to purchase anything.

    Steam lets me add many games to my cart, and then 2 pages later I’m installing them.

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      1 year ago

      The weekly free games shopping cart is convenient. Never play them, but collecting them is super simple.

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      1 year ago

      They have a cart like any other storefront. I’m not sure if this was something they had from day one, but at least it’s not something new to the store at this point. But even if there weren’t a cart, how realistic is the scenario for the typical user that they go and buy 10 games all at once? Sounds to me like some fictional scenario to heap unwarranted hate on the epic store.

      I mean I get it if someone says “I don’t really mind either way, but if I had to choose I’d rather buy on Steam because it’s slightly more convenient”. But the EGS gets so much hate everywhere and my question is what the problem is with the store that would warrant that much hate? I really don’t understand where that much vitriol is coming from.

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        I don’t remember the full scenario cause it’s been a few years, maybe it was trying to get a free game, maybe it was trying to buy something. But it was an incredibly frustrating experience and I haven’t opened epic launcher in a few years partly due to it, I know there wasn’t a cart at the time though, which while maybe not the most inconvenient was really fucking weird.