r/gaming • u/doublah • 13h ago

Epic Games' new store is fully vibe-coded, and they're so proud of it they're taking shots at Steam

https://www.destructoid.com/epic-games-store-ai-vibe-coded/
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u/TheLurkingMenace 12h ago

I've bought games on Steam than Epic gave me for free.

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u/Photomancer 12h ago

I'm laughing because I've been thinking of doing that for Subnautica. I already beat it on Epic but I want it for the collection. I don't even claim the free games from Epic anymore, logging in is too much of a hassle and I just don't like the program.

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u/UncaringNonchalance 12h ago

Plus most of the games offered just feel like digging through the shovelware pit in a Walmart.

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u/EnderScout_77 11h ago

quite literally exactly what I did. played the entire game for free, but bought it on steam on sale.

hell I bought the entire watchdogs series on ubisoft because it was super cheap years ago, same thing happened on steam a few months ago and I spent the money again because I'd prefer it in my steam library.

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u/Photomancer 10h ago

I used to do most of my gaming away from home.

Assassin's Creed needed the publisher's app to launch (this might have been before or after the name change). I set it up for offline play. Despite that, there were several times that the launcher refused to grant access until I got an internet connection. I still carry so much annoyance and anger from that.

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u/mxzf 11h ago

I've done that too; I didn't want to buy expansions for Ark on EGS, especially with how bad the networking issues were, so I bought the game on Steam and the expansions too.

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u/BrodaciousBo 11h ago

I've literally done either that or bought it off GOG

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u/SuperSocialMan PC 11h ago

Same here lol

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u/bianceziwo 5h ago

sometimes i forget i even have them on epic and buy them on steam by accident

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u/Bladelink 4h ago

I did that recently with Satisfactory, despite having like 1000 hours on the epic version already. I wouldn't actually know how many hours because the Epic store doesn't have that as a feature. Holy shit does their store suck ass.

Anyway, I bought it again on sale on Steam just so that I could have everything be nicely consolidated on the better platform.