@TankovayaDiviziya aren’tyou guys tired of talking about steam vs epic etc ?
Same discussions for years.
Move on.
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m far from being a business savvy person, but honestly, from business perspective what exactly is Epic offering that sets them apart from other competitors? Even if Epic fixed their launcher issues, how would they be different to Steam that is already well established for 20 years? That’s why I like GOG as Steam’s competitor. GOG focuses on selling DRM-free and retro games. If a game is also happens to be available in GOG, I would prefer to buy it from there than Steam. Moreover, GOG keep old games well maintained and updated to run in modern computers, something that Steam is very poor at doing. What does Epic even do differently?
nico@lepoulsdumonde.com 2 months ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To be honest, I totally forgot about Epic until articles are popping recently that it’s not going well even after all these years.
Also, what’s wrong about discussing this? Epic is a good example of a business venture not doing well for failing to do one of the most basic business philosophy: set yourself apart from the competitors.
nico@lepoulsdumonde.com 2 months ago
@TankovayaDiviziya it’s an endless discussion where people are only divided by their opinions about each company.
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You literally opened the thread. People are gonna talk about anything you can’t stop them.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’s slightly cheaper for developers to put their games on there. But that sucks as a business model, because game prices aren’t any lower so for the end user it doesn’t matter. And on features, Epic just loses every matchup against Steam.