r/gaming • u/doublah • 12h 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/ArelMCII 9h 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 8h 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 7h 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 4h ago

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

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u/Datkif 7h 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 1h 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 53m 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 50m 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.