>From a track record point of view, my expectation is that Epic’s investment in technology will outpace Valve’s substantially. When we look back at Steam in five or ten years, it may look like a dying store and other, competitive stores, will be the place to be.
>It takes content to move us. It took Half-Life 2 to even get us (not quite) comfortable enough to swallow the Steam pill back in the day.
>And so we’re going to swallow the Epic Game Store pill with Borderlands 3. And some of you guys are going to hate it and scream bloody murder and you’ll even blame me, personally, for it. And you can bitch and moan and brigade and stalk my shit, but at the end of the day when we look back at this moment we’ll realize that this was the moment where the digital stores on PC became unmonopolized. And we’re all going to look back and see how change happened and how costs for developers and publishers to be on stores went down and how that value was passed on to the customers.
May as well drop this from the last thread too: >Name 10 things the Epic Games Store is “inferior” in
>1) Foreign pricing is awful, games that have gone from Steam to EGS have risen in price drastically after the change. >2) Payment fees which get covered by Steam do not get covered on EGS, they expect the customer to pay for it. >3) Terrible security. People's accounts are constantly being hacked in to and stolen, this is amplified by... >4) Terrible customer service. They can take weeks to respond to any tickets and often times they're completely unhelpful. >5) Terrible data policies. Opting out of having your data being tracked and sold is hidden under a mountain of confusing language in order to make it as hard as possible. >6) Dubious software, many reports of it scraping people's computers for information that it really has no reason to be looking at. Namely, Steam files. >7) No offline play, even for singleplayer games. Good luck playing anything when your internet's down. >8) Restricted medium for feedback and leaving reviews. Every game on Steam has a section for reviews, meanwhile EGS devs can opt out of allowing this just in case their game gets shit reviews. >9) 40% owned by Tencent, THE Chinese Megacorporation notorious for spying on people who uses its products to give data to the Chinese Government. No matter how many statements the CEO will make in Twitter, there is absolutely NO WAY that a company that operates on gathering big data would own a stake this big without them getting access to any user data. For Tencent, Big Data is worth more than money. >10) Simply a lack of features. And this isn't the bullshit features that Valve just added for fun, I'm talking about basic features like being able to take/upload screenshots, having a web browser in your overlay, etc.
I'm still waiting on my (You), faggot :)
Jordan Hughes
>value passed onto the consumer
How ironic these Liberal devs are parroting trickle down economics when it's convenient, BL3 is still $60 on the Epic games store, where is the value for customers?
Ayden Johnson
Bump
Charles Bennett
You're a humongous faggot, did your mother ever tell you that?
Isaiah Murphy
Imagine unironically siding with pitchford. The man who still believes they did nothing wrong when it came to colonial marines, and the company whose only successful product to date has been half life expansions and borderlands.
Logan Butler
>borderlands 3 is the game thatll make us swallow epic games!
borderlands is the last game that'd convince me to use epic games store. it just gives a reason NOT to.
locking an already average game behind exclusivity just makes someone even less likely to buy it.
Jaxon Long
>40% owned by Tencent 49 percent now.
Ryan Diaz
Imagine caring in the first place. Imagine getting trolled by Randy Pitchford. This is why I side with him. He's annoying newfag chemo.
Owen Nguyen
10 lootboxes have been deposited into your account
Joshua Cooper
Every little thing he does is magic.
Ryder Howard
Keep getting irrationally wound up over something that doesn't affect you and hold lifelong grudges against someone that you've never even met. You and your ilk of hate bandwagoner hobbyists are a blight.
Luke Peterson
>caring about duke makes you a newfag ???
Hudson Young
is it just me or Randy looks like that boomer dad who always tries to be "hip and cool" to his kids or something? like, he seems like the kind of father who's always out of touch with children and yet he still wants to belong in a place he doesn't understand?
Jace Bailey
>value was passed on to the customers not in a million fucking years retarded randy
Ryan Cruz
Hey Randy, figured out how that chick squirted yet?
Kayden Sanchez
>bimbos venting their teenage rage and support a fractured market which brings no benefit Good job tards. Railing for the sake of railing.
At first he's like "2K makes all the publishing decisions, we didn't have anything to do with it", but then he keeps on defending Epic store for days afterwards. Make up your mind dude.
Easton Ramirez
The faggot 100% had a say in it and trying to play the role of the small indie developer that has no say in the big publishers decisions is disingenuous of him.
Adrian Mitchell
outrage culture makes you a newfag
Dominic Gray
This
People care so little they're even having to remind them there's more easter eggs in their shitty cover art.
Meanwhile Valve Autists will reverse engineer a 5kb update to 3 pixels on a character's texture in Half Life 2: Deathmatch because they're that deep in it.
Hunter Scott
This isn't outrage culture mate. I've hated gearbox and randy for years, so suck on my dick.
John Reed
JUST
Joseph Garcia
>how costs for developers and publishers to be on stores went down and how that value was passed on to the customers.
Look he can say whatever shit he wants and some of it might be true but this part will never happen
Andrew Cox
keep it to yourself kiddo
James Hall
t. zoomer console kiddie
Carter Reyes
I just wonder when we'll see the so called lower prices for consumers that everyone says the 12% will cause. Currently all the prices are the same as Steam and higher than other sites.
John Lopez
Publishers first!
Ian Wilson
But then he wouldn't get paid.
Have sex.
Kevin Rivera
>my expectation is that Epic’s investment in technology
6 months to add shopping cart >TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
Just go bankrupt already Randy you piece of tranny piss porn loving bastard
Aaron Bell
>But then he wouldn't get paid. As we all know you Epic cucks are all about increase the profits of others at your own expense >MUH 30%!
>"HURR, TRUST EPIC BECAUSE THEY'VE MADE A GOOD ENGINE, IT'S NOT LIKE SOURCE EXISTS OR ANYTHING" I swear to god he sounds more and more retarded each tweet
Liam White
People who didn't see this sell out coming never paid much attention to Gearbox falling over themselves when Colonial Marines and Battleborn were out. 2K were always going to prioritise money money money first at any cost.
Jaxon Flores
Half-Life 2 is overrated garbage.
Gabriel Morgan
>IT'S NOT LIKE SOURCE EXISTS OR ANYTHING"
A shitty engine nobody uses
Charles Long
>he doesnt know about apex living under a rock, user?
Gavin Sanchez
>From a track record point of view, my expectation is that Epic’s investment in technology will outpace Valve’s substantially. Lost me in the first line. Epic has Unreal Engine, and Valve has Source 2, Proton, and is responsible for a large portion of modern VR implementations. And that's just the recent stuff that we know about. Epic can't even make a shopping cart for their online store.
