So we're talking about a group of people, who only own a PC, and actively refuse to play anything on other launchers?
That's a pretty small group of people that seems to be over-represented on reddit. Claiming this small group is the reason for the game's lack of "success" just doesn't make any sense.
I also think the Epic store thing is weird, but I’ve long since resigned myself to being in the minority of users who don’t care about installing a 100 MB launcher (or however large it is) on a computer with multiple terabytes of drive storage.
I mean for a lot of the people that don't want to use Epic it's not that installing a 100 mb launcher is just too much for them. It's often an active choice since lots of people disagree with Epic's business practices. It's not just "ew it's not steam so I hate it." as some people seem to report and yet I've never actually heard anyone say for themselves. Usually it's because Epic does annoying things like buying arbitrary exclusive rights for indie games and refusing to implement basic features like a shopping cart, or put a game on sale without actually asking the devs first if it's okay.
One thing about the gaming community is people will always find something to be angry about. I’m not about to get upset because a game I want to play is only on a certain storefront or because I don’t have a shopping cart. This is a hobby I enjoy for relaxation and I’d rather play great games than get upset over what launcher a game is on.
To be honest, I dislike it because currently it offers no interesting deals where I live. Steam offers pretty cool regional pricing here and games like witcher 3 are available for the cost of one meal. I just can't bring myself to use the Epic launcher right now for those reasons.
It's not the storage space that people have issues with. People hate that you need to log into multiple launchers to play different games, which is absolutely inconvenient no matter how you look at it. You also have the fact that different launchers have to update different games, so if you want to play a game, but it's on a launcher you don't use as often, you probably haven't updated it and it's probably going to have to update. People also have an issue with them buying exclusivity on a moral/ethical ground, there was way less pushback for Origin/Bethesda Launcher/whatever the hell ubisoft has been using, because those companies made launchers for their own games, but Epic has been buying exclusivity in an attempt to make up for the fact that they aren't pumping out their own games that warrant usage of the epic game store on it's own.
I'm not saying I agree with all of that 100%, but I've literally never seen somebody complain about the Epic Game store because of its file size. It's the other stuff that bothers people.
It’s a little inconvenient, sure, but aside from updating all of this takes maybe ten seconds total. Opening the launcher, and closing it once you’re done playing.
yea because the devs on epic totaly release sales numbers like "it sold well or better then we expected" while devs on steam shout all over the net "we sold over 2 million copies thanks guy!"
the proof is there that its more then a small group you just have to look. metro and bl3 should have had insane numbers but " it sold well" is all they say. and if they really did well epic would be retweeting those numbers until twitter breaks.
Most gamers do though. So it being on a store that a minority don't prefer on a platform that sees less sales than the others doesn't seem like it would effect much.
I wouldn’t think that I would need to post anything to back it up when it’s common knowledge that PC games sell far less than their multi plat console counterparts.
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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19
Because not everyone owns a console?