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.

  • AlexanderESmith
    17•4 months ago

    EGS was always shit, I’ve said it since the beginning, and if they totally shut down and a bunch of dipshits lose their free libraries, all I’ll do is laugh. Every downvote I’ve ever gotten for saying Epic is shit is just another tear for my collection.

    You should have been able to see this coming the first (and every) time they bought a dev studio and immediately blocked game sales on Steam, or set games to exclusive for no reason other than locking out people who don’t use their shitty store. Companies that can compete on their own merits don’t have to do that, and being a fanboy because they gave out free games you probably already bought is fucking stupid.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•4 months ago

      I mean, you can get banned from Steam and lose all your games at well…

      You know, the centralization around Steam isn’t a thing people should be wishing for…

      • AlexanderESmith
        9•4 months ago

        I’ve heard of people getting banned from online play on steam, but haven’t heard of anyone losing their library. I guess if you only play online, it could be the same effect (so maybe don’t be a douchebag when playing online?)

        I don’t play multiplayer, except the rare occasion, and it’s usually direct connect (which you can’t be banned from), so I wouldn’t care.

        At any rate, I’m not saying steam is perfect or should be the only store, just that EGS fucking sucks. I agree with Randy Pitchford; We should have many viable competitors. Options are good. Epic is not a good option.

      • @VoyajerEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        How in the world can you get banned from steam proper?

    • @yamaniiEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Unless you are also building a gog library you have no place to talk.

      • @VoyajerEnglish
        7•4 months ago

        Maybe when GOG supports Linux properly.

        • AlexanderESmith
          2•4 months ago

          I mean, you can run any game through Proton. You don’t even need to buy anything, just open steam, add the non-steam game, select proton compatibility, and off you go. This is how I play a lot of my Itch.io games on Steamdeck or my laptop (I don’t have a windows install on any of my systems).

      • AlexanderESmith
        6•4 months ago

        I have a large library of non-DRM games from multiple sources, to say nothing of physical releases and homebrew.

        Even if I didn’t, I have every right to say that an anticompetitive shitbag company’s hack-job store sucks ass. Same goes for the Nintendo eShop. They don’t care about their customers’ experience, they only care about making money.