Re: Epic Games app and their gd Store page

On Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:40:25 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Quick question:
>
Is there any way to get the Epic Games app to open up to your library
page instead of their store?*

I've wondered that too. I've never found a way.

It's seems obvious that Epic sees the EGS client not as something
beneficial to the end-user but as a means to push their store. It's
not a tool meant for gamers to launch games; it's not something for
them to learn about games through reviews. It's not something that's
designed first and foremost to update games or add mods, or even have
features that make playing the game easier and more enjoyable
(streaming, voice-chat, screenshots, etc).

It primarily exists to shove the store into gamers' faces in the hopes
they go, "Oh, I should buy this thing."

Which, in and of itself, is not a BAD thing. The actual purchasing
experience on EGS is, actually, pretty easy. If all I were interested
in was buying stuff from Epic, I'd probably use their client.
Click-click-click, bingo-bango, I've got a new game. It's not that bad
in that area

It just sucks for everything else. And that's the problem.

Because online storefronts are a dime a dozen, and you've got to offer
something special to make me want to come visit yours. There is
/nothing/ special about the EGS client. Like many, the only time I
ever open the EGS client is to grab a free game. It's not a
"destination" for me, the way Steam or GOG is. The EGS client needs to
be something I'll browse just because it happens to be open because I
use it for other stuff. But I never open EGS because it has no utility
to me, the gamer. It lacks too many features, even compared to its
smaller competitors, and against its biggest rival, Steam? It's not
even close. The fact that I have a thousand games in EGS doesn't
really matter. Most of them I only grabbed because they were free and,
anyway, I probably own them on Steam anyway.

This is a problem that has been pointed out to Epic for YEARS, and yet
they don't do anything about it. User reviews? Nope. Forums? Nada.
Workshop? Missing. Streaming? Not here. Screenshots? Why bother? Being
able to launch directly into your library, bypassing the store-front?
Fuck no!

So it is obvious that Epic isn't unaware of these issues. They
certainly don't lack the skill or resources to build something better.
The only conclusion is that they just don't care. None of that is
important to them. Hell, why should they want you to PLAY the games?
Just BUY them; that's all that is important.

EGS was originally supposed to start being profitable in 2021 (three
years after launch). Then that got pushed back to 2024 (well, okay,
there was a planetwide epidemic; everybody's business plans got
knocked for a loop). Then later, they were saying they might start to
see their store become profitable in 2027. Even this seems unlikely
now.

I can't imagine why that is.