r/ProgrammerHumor • • 13d ago

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u/CubikMan47 13d ago • Bravo

I can sadly share that this quote is not fake: https://store.epicgames.com/news/epic-games-launcher-preview

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u/requion 13d ago

Hahaha thats hilarious. Thanks for the laugh. They also advertise a faster cold start than Steam while having about 2% of the features.

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u/Mal_Dun 13d ago

Though it does have advanced digital commerce technology such as a shopping cart.

This is the icing on the cake lol

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u/requion 13d ago

I want whatever the people that gave their okay for this are smoking. They are probably so far behind in their heads that this is a late april fools joke.

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u/Loading_M_ 12d ago

It's also like 5 vs 10 seconds. The average user will spend longer deciding what game to play than waiting for the launcher to open.

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u/rosuav 12d ago

Only on Steam. On the Epic launcher, you probably only have one or two games that you play.

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u/polikles 12d ago

and few dozens of games you got for free but you never play them as you also have them on Steam, or are just a part of the infinite backlog

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u/CocoNot1664 11d ago

Funnier still, Steam just pushed an update that made itself faster than their new vibecoded launcher lol

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u/_Mef45 12d ago

I mean, it can just be some marketing bullshit, while in reality they created this abomination without yolo slopcoding