Borderlands CEO says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford discusses his thoughts about the Epic Games Store and the years-old exclusivity deal for Borderlands 3 to skip Steam on PC.

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.

  • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I see. Still, I can see that for many people achievements with no value are no better than their absence. Platform provides value, and for now only steam provides a lot of it with almost each purchase.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      I’m willing to bet all I own that most Steam users don’t care about their profile or people seeing the achievements they got but they still care about achievements as a form of optional challenges they wouldn’t have thought about otherwise.

      • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 months ago

        If you mean just the percentage of users I might agree. But those people don’t really correlate with the users who provide most of the profit of the platform.

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14·
          3 months ago

          Pretty sure you underestimate what the average gamers spend, you’re in a bubble if you use the social features and it makes it seem like most people do, Steam has 132m monthly active users.