Not sure should I be happy for it or not?
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wait the full price is only $5 US for you?
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Regional pricing⌠Anyway, not planning to buy anything on EPIC anytime soon though.
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I got the game and i also bought ancestors game
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The Witcher 3-GOTY is only $5 after coupon.
So is Vampyr.
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Epic is trying so hardâŚ
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wow, even cheaper for u than it was for me , and when i bought it it had a slight sale on it, like 10% or 20%
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and succeeding i believe. I donât believe they have to âbeatâ Steam, just build out a client base to become sustainable.
By giving discounts etc. they dont necessarily lose money, they just forfeit on profit, but meanwhile they build out a customer base and they get publishers to sell their games there, and then with time, theyâll become âlegitimateâ. And that wonât take that long either. Most ppl online have the memory of a donkey regardless. And to all newcomers in gaming (not to mention all the Fortnite kids), itâs just another store, just like Steam.
Iâve already spent more real money on Epic than on Steam in one year (in one sale actually, last one) than i have on Steam in the 8 years or so iâve been on Steam. Not only does Epic allow me to spend real cash on their store while Steam doesnât, but they offer actual regional pricing to Africa as well, which Steam in effect also doesnât cuz Steam doesnât make a difference between poor African countries and rich Gulf countries, and ofc developers dont want to give oil shaykhs reductions on their games.
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Hehe those games are too cheap in my region for the coupon to be applicable.
Not that I was seeking to buy so its okie funny with the regional pricin though
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Yes but they are really trying to and they are still buying everyoneâs love with candies instead of actually offering a superior platform.
I have no particular love for Steam, itâs just practical platform for me as i have all my games in one place and steam is feature rich . All they have to do is offer a better service and i will switch. But they dont. They just try to bribe everyone into loving them.
I find that laughable. And a bit pathetic.
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Iâm a bit amazed at how everyone keeps saying their platform sucks while at the same time (I think @Gnuffi mentioned it once too), everyone forgets Steam didnât become great in its first years itself.
EGS is slowly becoming better, and who knows, maybe in the end it will be better than Steam as well. I donât rly care honestly. Itâs just a place for me to get free and cheaper games. Itâs just a launcher. Itâs just something i use to launch games.
Iâd honestly be surprised if with time, EGS doesnât offer all the things Steam offers now, and it will probably take them way less time overall.
Steam is great now, and their latest changes rly made it that much better, especially the library-related ones.
I donât think they are rly trying to âbeatâ Steam either, honestly. That wouldnât be a very realistic goal. My guess is theyâre just trying to carve out their own market share, and that I think they will definitely succeed in.
As for how they do it, i donât see it as pathetic at all. If anything, itâs rly smart and savvy. In the end, business is like war isnât it? Itâs all about tactics. And especially this latest move, giving away GTA 5 while launching sales at the same time, with the $10 coupon, thatâs nothing short of genius from a marketing perspective.
And the very least thing we should agree upon is that competition is healthy for the market and beneficial for the consumer. At the very least, it has given Valve a kick under the butt, and they have finally awoken, and weâve seen A LOT of beneficial changes and changes in behavior from them, on so many levels, ever since EGS really started bringing the heat.
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The difference is that Steam pioneered the whole idea of digital distribution in an era where online shopping as a whole was still in itâs infancy. Yeah steam started out pretty bad and I for one did not use steam until they fixed their shit, and they sure did.
EGS doesnât have an excuse, everything is tried and tested, features exists to be straight copied over and we know what a functional online store requires. EGS does not have those things, they donât need to develop anything they just have to get it done and they just are not doing it. âslowly getting betterâ yeah took them over a year to get a wish list function which was their only post launch upgrade and itâs such a low level importance feature it just seems like theyâre taking the piss.
As I joked about earlier you could create a more competent online store in 30 minutes using squarespaceâs tools.
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I guess the difference is that all doesnât bother me in the slightest
like i said, to me itâs just another place that sells games (and often cheaper for me) and gives a lot of great free games.
Iâve been playing For the King there recently. Iâm quite amazed by that game, although it is simplistic it just has something to it that keeps you playing (only played 1 campaign, 7 hours long, reached the last boss place but died there 
tbh i didnt know what i was doing, lol, only had 2 party members and no one designated healer).
I just went to see and i already have 114 games there (mostly pretty good to great ones), lol, thatâs pretty insane.
this i dont get though, i can see, buy, install, and play games there. iâd argue their store is definitely functional as is.
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Lying down on the ground and rolling down a hill is a âfunctionalâ mode of transportation, if all you want is to get down the hill.
Besides youâre the one started comparing them, Iâm just saying theyâre not comparable because the circumstances around their creation are so completely different.
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I can only second what Frags said.
Opening a car factory and making cars without wheels because âyou havent been doing this for very long and still need time to add wheelsâ is not an excuse.
Steam did all the âinventingâ part so all EGS had to do was copy all the good features .
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funny how neither of u are answering the part about how it is not a functional store thoughâŚ
i dont believe so, i merely stated they dont have to âbeatâ steam
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Itâs not a functional platform not a store.
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-.-
Do you not understand analogies?
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You might not be comparing them but EGS from the day 1 was naming themselves as Steamâs competitor and what have they actually achieved by now? Nothing. Just shoving free games to everyones face while not improving at all.
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