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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think I lost this analogy. What are the condiments in this metaphor?

[–] Scafir@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know so much about EGS, but probably some of the following (most of which I don't use very often, I hope I recall correctly)

  • Refunds
  • Family sharing of games
  • Sharing games for other local users
  • Being able to lend games
  • Remote Play (with friends)
  • Remote Play (stream for a local machine)
  • Linux support through proton
  • probably more?
[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • Workshop, providing mod hosting/browser/framework for API
  • controller configuration tools
  • Better storefront with decent discovery and better search (Although this wouldn't be a condiment in the anology)
  • Passable social tools (IE voice chat)
  • Game streaming to friends
  • Cloud saves
  • Relatively good review system
  • Item marketplace and trading
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 weeks ago

Free cloud backups of save files is really nice.

Free hosting of screenshots, too.

Free forums (though they tend to suck. I guess that's like they only have basic yellow mustard or something, in this metaphor)