Epic games store stuck in 80s because it doesn't even have shopping cart

>Epic games store stuck in 80s because it doesn't even have shopping cart
>uPlay store stuck in 2000s because it needs flash player to watch a video

Why are PC stores other than Steam so incompetent?

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They're owned and operated by publicly-traded companies.

>he didn't catch the early years of steam
man, it was so fucking bad it's kinda amusing.
Short answer: Steam is the oldest and obviously most developed store.

Steam being first only means they had to slog through and figure out what needed to be done, what was a good idea, what wasn't a good idea

These companies don't have an excuse. Steam already shows them what they need to do, but they still can't figure it out and think that the way to succeed in the market is to ignore what steam does right and instead play manipulative social mind games on customers.

and it took years and years for Steam to become usable

Steam was as usable as Epic Game Store is usable now.

Just to preempt the bad-faith arguments made by shills:
>Not beholden to one of the most nightmarish Chinese technology giants responsible for developing a social credit system
>>There's probably a medical and/or weapons development company in China that does far worse with human organs/experimentation on Uyghers and political prisoners
>Not nearly absorbed or under threat of being absorbed by bugmen through Viacom
>Not a publicly-traded company like the major publishers Ubisoft, EA, and Activision, so priorities lie in different places than being a one-pump chump focused solely on maximizing profits for shareholders

It took years and years for steam to figure out what works

It doesn't take years to copy steam's basic services unless you're incompetent and staffed with garbage, which these """competitors""" are.

Why do Steamcels think everyone shares their wish to use a fucking game launcher as tranny facebook?

nah it was worse. I couldn't even connect to it

These companies want nothing more than to have 'videogame facebook'.

Steam wins because they provide a hell of a lot more than that. The social network just gives them more inertia, but the other things they did right got the train rolling.

>Implying Epic isn't beelining for the same exact goal, knocking down ladders and obstacles with timed exclusives in light of not commissioning second-parties or truly funding development to massively Jew the entire platform

Epic at least try saving game industry fffuck

I tried their store to see what it was like and it's literally nothing like that. It's more barebones than Origin if that's even possible. If it weren't for the fact that I seldom buy new games and Epic has none I'm interested in it'd win first place solely by virtue of having the least superfluous bullshit.

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Good to know that I can start making and selling cars of early XX quality. Don't get mad at me, Mitsubishi started much earlier, of course they had time to develop!

you dont need to invent the wheel twice user

>What is: a development roadmap?
Shill harder, you pencil-dicked chimp. This is the most pathetic line to come out of impressionable drones who earnestly believe marketing campaigns and allow themselves to be influenced.

Your thoughts and opinions are cheap.

Steam was never *that* bad

Sure it was ugly green and used to lose connection every 5 mins but at least you still got to play CS:S

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People ITT have earnestly bought the 13% revenue split meme and some likely have succumb so far as to believe Steam is an incumbent bully who's got devs by the balls.

Retarded zoomers and and manchildren who have no idea of the publisher/retailer revenue split of brick and mortar, the runaway success of the micropublisher model that's given us this renaissance of Indies we live in with digital storefronts in general, or the faintest concept of marketing.

>you still got to play CS:S
The early versions of Steam were the most fragile shit ever. Click one wrong button when it wasn't "ready" for it and it crashed.

Nah user, most of the hate steam gets is being organized by online pursuaders hired by steam's competitors.

It's the new form of advertising where you slander your competitor in a way that can't be tied back to your company.

This used to happen very often in newspapers until it was made illegal, and it now still happens in newspapers but they're a lot more careful about how they lie and slander.

That's exactly what I said: marketing.

My favorite example of the exact type you're describing is G2A approaching nine different gaming blogs with a prewritten article they wanted to publish in exchange for cash with the understanding that they would be in no way credited. Of those nine, I only know that one shared their e-mail.

Then G2A tried making the marketer into their fall guy as though he "went rogue".

I never want to purchase anything from Epic out of principle at this point. I don't have sunk cost in Fortnite like half of these chucklefucks probably do, so it's probably easier for me.

>a billion of shitty launchers
the state of PCMR