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.

  • @[email protected]English
    25•3 months ago

    I’ve bought one game on the epic store.

    I then immediately had to install the EA app, because you… didn’t buy it on the epic store? You bought a license that you have to activate on EA’s shit instead.

    Kinda thinking there’s no point to that, and I should have skipped epic (I had a coupon).

    • @ABCDEEnglish
      28•3 months ago

      That’s the same on Steam.

      • @[email protected]English
        20•3 months ago

        Oh so it’s just EA sucking, then. Well, it’s nice to know nothing ever really changes I suppose.

        • @Zahille7English
          3•3 months ago

          I also bought one game on Epic, it was Fenyx Rising, that Ubisoft Greek Breath of the Wild. I also had to launch it in the Uplay launcher to even play it, even though I got it on Epic.