How Epic Store Exclusives are bringing console wars to PC

[Yerm]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Yerm said:
if you actually look at the list of features that you say are "missing", its all bullshit. the average person does not care about 90% of those features listed.

Curators? nobody cares.
Trading cards? nobody cares.
Device streaming? nobody cares.
Broadcasting? theres a million better ways to do this.
Screenshots? same thing.
Marketplace? nobody cares.
Community guides? this is not something only steam does.
Groups? nobody cares.

i look for just a few things. if i can buy games, and have it easy and convenient to play them, thats all i need. and how about all the stuff Epic offers that seems to get sweeped under the rug?

Offering more revenue to developers
Better, faster customer support
A free game every 2 weeks

competition is good, and Steam has been needing it for a long time. they need to step up their shit or they will become obsolete

I agree with most of the rest, but not the first one. See what clogged mess Steam has become because it's not curated? See how orderly GOG is for instance by comparison? Curating the literal shit out of the store matters a lot more than you might think.

As for community guides, they can be very helpful if you're having problems, both technical ones or when you're stuck in the game somewhere. I agree that they can be found elsewhere in most cases, but not always (especially more obscure titles may be very hard to find outside such guides) Btw, unlike what that sheet says, GOG has such guides, they're just part of the forums of said games on GOG.

the curators are debatable. but for community guides, there are other outlets that can provide the same thing. fan wikis, reddit threads, even youtube all have that area covered. its a bit simple minded to say that community guides are one of Steam's flagship features