• doodledup@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I gave Epic’s store a chance but even after all this time it’s still shit and very far from feature parity with Steam. There’s not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.

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      I never gave it a chance, as theit practice of paying for exclusivity is infuriating to me.

      Make your shit better. Hell, make it comparable, and charge a lower cit (so devs make more), and I’d support then.

      Paying to make the market more closed off sucks.

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      I gave it a chance when they took over Rocket League. The damn platform doesn’t even support profile avatars while Steam did. So to get a basic nice feature working all you had to do was… not use their platform.

      They still don’t have avatars.

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        2 months ago

        They absolutely slaughtered rocket league. They even put the dumb cyber truck in it lmao

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          Oh really? I haven’t played since they disabled trading items.

          I mean, the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars, and you’ll probably get better FPS due to the lowered polygon count! But yeah… no bueno.

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            2 months ago

            the cyber truck probably looks better than some of the other cars

            It’s actually quite close to the real version.

            So no.

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              2 months ago

              I haven’t seen it, but I thought it might be better than the Grog or Scarab.

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                  2 months ago

                  I went and played a few games. You’re right, the cybertruck is the worst looking car in the game by far.

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      2 months ago

      FWIW, my understanding is that the owner of Epic is actively anti-Linux, so your third feature is a unlikely at best. The fourth was only remotely likely due to market share.

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      Yeah i get and play the free games from there, but they don’t seem to want to do more than the bare minimum for the storefront so I won’t purchase anything through them.

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        It’s beyond me how they can affors all of these free games and exclusive but not a single capable developer to make this platform beyond just the bare minimum.

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      2 months ago

      Heroic launcher works pretty well to get epic and gog games in the deck. But yes, support could be better, especially since i remember unreal tournament being Linux friendly early on.