Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)
Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.
Way harsher build in DRM
Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.
No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?
No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support
What are you going on about here? Every single title I played from the EGS I could play with controller just fine (I don’t do K+M so I play everything with controller and I never had a problem games just auto-recognizing both my bog standard xbox controller as well as whatever is build into the ROG Ally. Also the 8bitdo fighting stick works out of the box).
No mod support
First real argument against EGS I’ve read so far. But doesn’t mods just replace files in the file system anyway? What would you need a storefront support for?
No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)
Yeah, they aren’t for me either, but I can see that there are people who would see this as something positive to have. But then again, isn’t everything running in discord today anyway?
no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you
I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.
DRM only affects people who paid to play the game, the point of cracking a game is to remove the DRM.
Of course steam needs to call home when it’s online, but when you are offline you never need to connect again if you don’t want to.
Steam itself supports controllers. If you want to play a game without controller support you can use steam to play with a controller regardless.
Modding a game can be a complex ordeal, stream simplifies it (usually) and offers a download manager.
Steam reviews are far more trustworthy than ‘official’ reviews and that is just a fact. Reviewers are often bought, and even when they aren’t they directly paid for they are indirectly pressured to offer inflated scores, operate on a weird scale, and are often incompetent besides (the bad at games stereotype has existed since the 90s at least, and for good reason).
Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.
Doesn’t this just affect pirates? I don’t really care as long as it doesn’t mean that performance is sacrificed.
Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?
What are you going on about here? Every single title I played from the EGS I could play with controller just fine (I don’t do K+M so I play everything with controller and I never had a problem games just auto-recognizing both my bog standard xbox controller as well as whatever is build into the ROG Ally. Also the 8bitdo fighting stick works out of the box).
First real argument against EGS I’ve read so far. But doesn’t mods just replace files in the file system anyway? What would you need a storefront support for?
Yeah, they aren’t for me either, but I can see that there are people who would see this as something positive to have. But then again, isn’t everything running in discord today anyway?
I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.
LOL. DRM affects everyone, is a bad for consumers and only benefits shareholders.
How so? It never once affected me and I consider myself a consumer.
Search for Manhunt and Midnight Club DRM case, this is the most obvious problem with DRM.
You could also look for the stuff that happens with arcade games from SEGA and etc.
DRM only affects people who paid to play the game, the point of cracking a game is to remove the DRM.
Of course steam needs to call home when it’s online, but when you are offline you never need to connect again if you don’t want to.
Steam itself supports controllers. If you want to play a game without controller support you can use steam to play with a controller regardless.
Modding a game can be a complex ordeal, stream simplifies it (usually) and offers a download manager.
Steam reviews are far more trustworthy than ‘official’ reviews and that is just a fact. Reviewers are often bought, and even when they aren’t they directly paid for they are indirectly pressured to offer inflated scores, operate on a weird scale, and are often incompetent besides (the bad at games stereotype has existed since the 90s at least, and for good reason).