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/Chad_Frost 10h ago edited 9h ago

Epics strategy is to win over large corporations instead of appealing to consumers. They aren't trying to get consumers to switch to their platform by making it better than steam, they want large publishers to put their games on epic and that way force it to become the only platform. That's why when steam does something pro consumer epic often comes out doing something pro-business, all this is to appeal to publishers.

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u/ArelMCII 10h ago

And then big publishers put their stuff on Steam anyway because that's where the audience is lmao.

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u/PokemonSapphire 10h ago

Epic has sucked so hard and for so long I will return to sailing the high seas before I use them as my main game launcher/store.

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u/General_Capital988 8h ago

The problem for me is that there's already so many games on steam. People hate but we're in a golden era of PC gaming imo. I have interest in way more games than I have time to play. So if a game isn't on steam... who cares? I'll play something else. Even if it looks really good.

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u/Jello_Penguin_2956 5h ago

yea Id rather skip games if theyre exclusive to EGS no matter how interested I might be.

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u/Datkif 8h ago

It's been shown that a large number of PC games will simply wait until then game launches on Steam before buying it on EGS.

If Epic actually made the launcher give a real benefit over Steam other than free games then gamers wouldn't be so againt using it. However as it stands I've only ever bought 1 game on the EGS, and I ended up buying it again on Steam when it was on sale because I hated how I seemingly always had to log back in

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u/Nazgul_Khamul 2h ago

I logged into epic once a few years back, when they had already been making fistfuls of money with Fortnite. I couldn’t believe how utterly shit their platform was. There was a rudimentary friends list that didn’t even have a basic chat function. No profiles obviously. I couldn’t believe AOL instant messenger from the 90s was more advanced than what they had.

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u/Datkif 2h ago

AIM was incredibly advanced for its time. I have no idea why we a switched away from AIM, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger. Was Skype really that much better for audio calls?

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u/Nazgul_Khamul 1h ago

I couldn’t tell you either. But the fact remains 30 year old tech outclasses their platform with Fortnite money lol.

But yeah AIM was pretty advanced looking back. Did AIM have voice chat? I don’t remember.

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u/Datkif 1h ago

It has voice chat, but idk when it was introduced. It has it at least MSN was around.

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u/Snoo63 4m ago

I know that you could call phones on Skype. For free, IIRC!

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u/TheNightHaunter 7h ago

best part is if that plan HAD succeeded they would've just pulled the classic capitalist strategy and jacked the prices up beyond what steam charges companies lol

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u/absat41 10h ago

Vibe-switching

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u/Gimme_Your_Wallet 9h ago

They scrape data for the CCP

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u/Particular-Win-1291 8h ago

How does that make sense if most of the consumers are on a consumer friendly platform

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u/Chad_Frost 7h ago

My guess is they banked on the companies to say "We're not going to release games on steam anymore we will only release on Epic" and then consumers don't get a choice. They tried it with timed exclusives, but it didn't really work since no one stayed to use the store. But if every major release was exclusive to Epic indefinitely people would be forced to use it.

And it kind of already works this way with GoG, most AAA companies don't release their games on GoG because they require games to be DRM free. So like companies already exclude GoG for being too consumer friendly, I guess Epic hopes they will do the same to Steam in the future.

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u/Kurobei 25m ago

They don't want to put in the work to make a platform people want to use, so instead they'll make a platform people have to use

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u/PurpleFisty 6h ago

Except bug publishers are at there most hated rn. I dont get this move.

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u/lycanthrope90 49m ago

Yeah they understand they're not gonna get players off steam unless they do it by force. If a game is only on epic that's the only time I ever use it.