Apparently you don’t, judging from your replies. Happy trolling!

You are a consumer. They are making things worse for you to make things better for other people. The people who benefit most are publishers, not developers. And Hades is an outlier; none of the other games on the store have been measurably improved by being an Epic exclusive.

Timed exclusives hurt GOG and itch.io. The reason that timed exclusives are a sticking point is because the most sales are made at the beginning of a game’s release. If those games aren’t available on smaller storefronts, they miss out on that early rush, with people going to Epic instead of those storefronts. And…

Epic gave the publishers the money they already had, the lower cut had nothing to do with it. They did that for a timed exclusive, so they could have access to hype sales. They did nothing for you, they haven’t even delivered on basic store features. You aren’t Epic’s customer, you’re their product, and they are…

If your passion project requires taking advantage of consumers to exist, it probably shouldn’t exist, no matter how passionate you are about it. There are plenty of storefronts and publishers out there that aren’t Epic and offer great options. Like itch.io. Or just self-publish online and go by word of mouth, as games…

Epic Games Store Roadmap | Trello

Yes, “inferior product.” A lack of basics like a shopping cart, gifting of purchases, supporting additional payment methods or additional currencies. Things that aren’t even considered immediate concerns by Epic, because they aren’t competing as a launcher or a store.

It’s on their “maybe someday” list, alongside accepting other currencies, gifting games to other people, a newsfeed, and additional payment methods. You know, basic features stores offer at launch.

The horse I have in this race is myself. That’s the only horse that matters. If someone is offering an inferior product to me, I’m not going to spend money on it. Quality is important. If all you want is to launch your game, buy from GOG, you don’t even need a launcher through them and their games are DRM free, with…

Epic still doesn’t have a shopping cart, dude. That’s a basic store feature that was promised within a few months of release. It’s been years.

Then maybe that’s what you should be doing. You don’t need games immediately, nobody does, and Epic hasn’t done anything to earn your loyalty. They aren’t competing to make a better product, only cornering market share to make more money off their real customers, publishers. None of these moves Epic has made has ever…

Hitman 3 location imports should work by end of February, say IOI | Rock Paper Shotgun

Honestly, if you haven’t taken the time to pay attention to the legitimate complaints leveled against Epic’s business practices since they started this mess, I don’t expect you to do so now. Buying customers to sell consumers to is the point of paid exclusives, and they are trying to minimize their cost in acquiring…

You really don’t understand how these storefronts work, do you? You’re the commodity they are selling to publishers. You don’t pay a cent, the publishers do. The features are the cost of that access. Epic is trying to force their way towards having a larger pool of customers to sell to publishers by getting those…

I checked, and apparently my code got changed to an Epic key at some point. I’m petitioning to have the right key or a refund. Good Lord, this whole thing is aggravating.

GOG Galaxy pretty much collates all that stuff, so the launchers are barely needed outside of it, really. Among other things, it makes tracking titles across platforms a bit easier. They’re still working on it, of course. Feature parity is important when it comes to “competition,” of course, which is the stated reason…

Well, chalk that up as something else to be angry about. I backed the game and never got my Steam key.

You mean, the kind of response Epic tried to stir up from Fortnite fans against Apple? I’m going to keep doing what I’ve been doing: not buying anything tied to the Epic store. Or Fortnite, for that matter.

If you honestly believe that this is about a “second icon,” you haven’t been paying attention. This is about consumer choice and money, plain and simple. Epic wants money, but doesn’t want to put in the effort to make a competitive product. They’ve had well over a year to offer even basic feature parity with the likes…

Man, I can’t wait for Hitman 3 to be released on PC next year. And it’ll be great to finally play Mechwarrior 5 and Shenmue 3 when they finally come out.