I'm genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student's first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

https://www.shacknews.com/article/130172/epic-games-store-unlocks-achievements-for-all-games

They've had achievements for over two years... I swear all the anti epic crowd knows nothing about what their launcher is like at this point and just keep repeating what they read back when it launched... Just like the Steam boycotters back in the early 2000s

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Are you serious? Obviously people don't care about achievements on a platform that has almost no community-related functionality.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What has community got to do with achievements? My Steam profile is entirely private, the achievements are for me.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My profile is also not public but it's visible to friends. Also I can make it public when I want.

There are also achievement statistics.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fair, but my point is that plenty of people care about achievements without any community integration

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well did it help Epic when they added achievements? Guess not much. Either they never marketed this feature enough or most spending users never cared about achievements on Epic.

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