LogFAQs > #939601485

The hassle of needing yet another account is a pain, as is having to check multiple storefronts for sales on games I'm interested in. It's also a hassle to remember which storefronts have which exclusive games, which is a particular issue with Epic because their exclusives are so arbitrary and sporadic (as distinct from Origin or Uplay, whose exclusives are the releases from their respective owners). Being able to boot up a single launcher to access my entire library and browse all the sales I'm interested in has been a strength of PC gaming for a long time, but that strength is being eroded with each new distribution platform that comes out. Humble and GOG have been contributing to this, but they at least occupy their own niches and contribute something to the market that Steam does not (DRM-free and older games in the case of GOG, bundles in the case of Humble), which cannot be said for Epic.

Quite simply, Epic is offering a subpar platform that provides nothing new except the exclusives that it obtained purely by bribing publishers, which is not the kind of competition anyone should want. Toss in their very questionable sale practices (their first major sale entailed forcing developers to discount their games whether they wanted to or not), and I'm not exactly in a rush to support them. I'll take the free games, but it's going to take a lot to convince me to spend any money there.

Of course, the whole "single launcher" issue can be solved by GOG Galaxy 2.0, which very kindly unifies all libraries into a single client. Still doesn't streamline the shopping process as much as I might like, and the last time I looked their library organization features were a bit lacking compared to Steam's, but it's definitely something I'll be adding to my desktop if I ever get around to "upgrading" from Windows 7.

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