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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

Please tell me more about this Junk Store, I'd been using Heroic for Epic games but it's been a bit dodgy recently

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Sure, it's a plugin through Decky. It allows you to log in to Epic and it displays your library in its separate window, allowing you to install them as Non-Steam Games. It's quite easy

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

I've not used Decky before, it always seemed like one of those things that needed constant tinkering. Is it still a bit bleeding edge or has it reached the "it just works" stage yet?

[-] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Decky itself is fine, some plugins are buggy. If you install it and Junk-Store, you should be fine with no problems. I run like a dozen plugins and I only ever had problems with the UI customization ones: css, and animation changer. I uninstalled those and it's all passive now.

I've only had problems with one game from Epic. The rest worked just fine with no tweaks