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0 pointsbitmasher93d ago0 comments

I never understood people who argue steam doesn’t have real competition.

The number of fully funded attempts to compete with steam is impressive. Steam has more competition than any other of the major app stores. Steam also had to provide additional value over pre-existing methods of installing games on the PC in a way the Android Play Store or the PlayStation Store did not have to.

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0cf8612b2e1e3d ago

It is incredible how much the other stores fumbled the implementation. As a rule, Epic, Origin, etc apps were terrible. Laggy, bad UI, sometimes difficult to even complete a purchase.

You would have thought that close relationship with the games industry- someone must know how to make a high performance native application. Yet it always felt like web developers pumping out another half assed Electron platform. The Steam store must generate billions in revenue -put some real manpower behind the engineering.

ahartmetz3d ago

What's more, Epic spends order of magnitude a billion dollars per year on free games on the Epic Store. People still don't want the Epic Store because it's crap. Like Jesus H. Fucking Christ, do these assclowns ever get a clue?

I'm very fine with them not getting a clue though, Valve spends money and effort on promoting Linux and Epic (Tim Sweeney) kinda does the opposite. With all the shit Microsoft is pulling, he still prefers Windows while complaining about it.

jamesnorden3d ago

I remember the early days of the Epic Store, there was no "shopping cart" feature, you could only buy one game at a time.

bitmasher9OP3d ago

I think GoG is a great store and Battle.Net is fine for what it is.

account423d ago

"attempts" is the key word here. Hard to compete with a monopoly backed up with network effects.

snowram3d ago

It is a red water business, and no one will ever want to switch off from multiple years of game investment.

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