"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor
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naticus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
Dude. Epic store isn’t even new anymore. Why the hell does it still suck ass and is basically the same? It took steam like, MAAAYYYYBE three or four years to be a really good storefront, and they had to pioneer it. What even is Epic’s fucking problem?
Edit: 15 years. Epic came onto the scene 15 years after valve debuted Steam. Epic has literally zero excuse and zero pity. Pathetic.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
It took Steam more like a decade till people didn’t hate it tbh. Does nobody remember the steam logo anal gif? Steam was forced on anyone who wanted to play HL2 and nobody liked it.
Pratai@piefed.ca 17 hours ago
They’re a joke. Always have been.
Kazel@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Vive coding a shopping cart totally sounds like Epic and Sweeney
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
What it sounds like is a liability…
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I can’t use Epic because of their age verification and poor customer service, so this checks out.
Can’t browse the store because games are blocked without age verification. Tried to verify my age and the service they use kept returning an error. Reached out to support and got a chat bot that tried to tell me I needed to clear my browser cache for it to work. Obviously made no difference because it’s the third party website that’s broken. Had to argue with it for five minutes until I started swearing at it for it to connect me to a human. The human emailed me and it was incomprehensible broken English, they clearly didn’t understand what I was trying to say to them so I just gave up and said “guess I’m never using epic again.”
Despite being over 30 and having multiple 18+ games btw
BassTurd@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
How tone deaf does one have to be to think that claiming they vibe coded an app is some sort of flex? What a fucking tool shed. Fuck Epic. I didn’t want there shit before and this truly solidifies my stance.
Also, is Steam slow for other people? I’ve had probably zero complaints regarding performance speed. If I really put my mind to it, I could maybe come up with something I don’t like, but it would have nothing to do with it’s performance.
ieightpi@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It really is hard to get behind epic at all. People say “it’s just another software launcher, stop being a steam snob”
Ive never liked their work ethics and I don’t want support a company that makes fortnite anyway.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
Damn RPS really dunkin on em hard in this one. I definitely feel that sigh.
treadful@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago “Though it does have advanced digital commerce technology such as a shopping cart.”
WOAH!
athairmor@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
He must think people will get more than the free games now because he vibes-coded a shopping cart?
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s unreal
anguo@piefed.ca 21 hours ago
Underrated comment.
tio_bira@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Tim is a fucking dishonor to the OG PC gamers…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
wait till you see what lord britshit is up to… gamesradar.com/…/after-8-years-ultima-creator-say…
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 23 hours ago He's a disgrace to programmers too. Like, the fuck you mean programming is hard? Of course it is! That's the whole fucking job! You get good at it, you learn from your mistakes, and you pass your knowledge on to the next generation.
AI isn't just about eliminating service jobs and low-level positions, it's also about turning senior developers into lazy bums who let their skills atrophy, so they can be devalued, laid off, and paid less at the next place. I even see it at my workplace, people I once respected who now answer every question with "I don't know, I don't remember, have you asked Claude?" No motherfucker, I'm asking YOU.
kewjo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
i see it as mostly trying to rebalance and lower wages. a lot of places are demanding more productivity which doesn’t really exist if you want something stable. where i work work life balance was the selling point for the job, now they demand more more more and in office. though i don’t think they realize the ones they’re calling unproductive are the only ones holding back the flood gate of bugs.
enjoy your services you like and find alternatives if you can. soon all the companies who buy into it are going to have similar uptime as github.
flameleaf@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
If you search for Unreal Tournament on the Epic Games Store, it lists them as “Top Results From Other Stores” and points you to a URL that resolves with: Server Not Found.
If Epic care so little about their own products, why should I be interested in them?