Those two things aren't on the EGS roadmap. Could be that stuff is already integrated. There are already games that use Epic Online Services.
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Epic delays public release of Epic Online Services SDK, updates to come at GDC 2020
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And people on era keep saying that Valve is the one that doesn't update and developer their platform.
Meanwhile you can literally transfer you save files from Steam to the Switch for Civ and Divinity, but of course nobody is taking about how amazing that is
Meanwhile you can literally transfer you save files from Steam to the Switch for Civ and Divinity, but of course nobody is taking about how amazing that is
The only thing on their road map is making sure better stores are prevented from selling third party PC games.
I wonder if people are still going to defend this shit show.
Who am I kidding, idiocy knows no bounds.
Who am I kidding, idiocy knows no bounds.
So does this mean that some day Satisfactory might be cross platform?
Is Epic Online Services part of Unreal 4 or is it separate?
I know Unreal 4 is on basically every major platform, so it'd be great if this was part of it.
Edit: I am shocked how many people haven't read the OP.
Is Epic Online Services part of Unreal 4 or is it separate?
I know Unreal 4 is on basically every major platform, so it'd be great if this was part of it.
Edit: I am shocked how many people haven't read the OP.
Is there still no cart? And we're almost at one year? I haven't used the store so I have no feelings about but I've been to some pretty websites that have a cart function.
honestly, it should have launched at least better than origin, which is not hard to do, cause origin is complete trash. but nope, its a new client, so why not give them time? i mean, steam was pretty basic when it came out right? 15 years ago....digital distribution is nothing new specially on pc, they had absolutely no reason to launch such a shitty client if you ask me, without the basics. they were so quick to get that money out for exclusives, they never even knew they needed the basics in a client. if it weren't for gamers screaming out for the basics in 2019.
Well, I mean, "Epic Online Services" is a piece of the Epic Ecosystem and another piece of their vibrant feature set that's supposed to rationalize the existence of their weird, invasive storefront.
Looking at thier portal: Any engine, any store, any platform. The services seem to be agnostic, designed as a separate SDK to be integrated in other platforms.
Safe to assume that UE4 will have (or already has) the headstart with the kit already integrated in some level.
Epic is doing this constantly with UE4: building features for their own project needs first, and then implementing them for the public build. Only this time, it seems like they have built the kit outside of UE4.
Epic Online Services and the Epic Games Store are different things, why people are talking like they are the same?
Because "Epic took mah games!!" and anything that can remotely be sniffed as a failure on their part needs to be capitalized on.
Can the mods specify in the title that this is not about the Epic Game Store? This thread is embarassing, especially since the Epic Online Services is a very customer friendly initiative.
My post was referring to a comment made by the CEO of Epic Games. The Epic Online Services are a part of Epic Games.
It is still the same Fortnite launcher which also offered 3rd party games already several years ago and only rebranded.
Technically the EGS is even older than that because it's the UE market place framework but that would include too much of semantics.
holy shit this is getting embarrassing.. like what is this? People so quick to throw their shit at epic they forgetting how to read.. shameful
This kind of thing happens so often now. People don't read the OP and they don't even read part of the thread. They just jump in.
You understand how sad it is to put more effort on writing something than on making sure to understand what you are talking about, right?
It's not like they are keeping up with their EGS roadmap either.
It's just more evidence that if it isn't Fortnite, you can't trust Epic.
It's just more evidence that if it isn't Fortnite, you can't trust Epic.
Surprisingly they have been updating it more frequently recently. When an entry has a comment icon on it it means they've given an update on its progress (which can be seen when clicked on the entry).
Wtf? This isn't a consumer facing feature at all, they're literally giving away for free (and will continue to support) the online back-end they developed for Fortnite for free for developers to use regardless of the engine/store it uses.
As a consumer, you might see a game that uses it to support crossplay and maybe they'll spend less time by using this instead of creating their own solution... that's about the only benefit you as a consumer would see.
I'm still trying to figure out how people haven't figured out Epic isn't on their side in any of this. This is a company that out of one side of their mouth talks about wanting to stop Valve/Steam & their "anti-consumer/anti-competitive" practices while also buying up third party exclusives and making it where you literally have one choice to purchase them from and removing any actual competition as far as PC gaming goes. At least with the Ubisoft games there is a second option (Uplay).
Not shocked, but still very disappointed.
I hate how people were defending the store with the argument of the roadmap. It's obvious that they just aren't willing to put the resources into their online offerings and features other than monopolizing games
I hate how people were defending the store with the argument of the roadmap. It's obvious that they just aren't willing to put the resources into their online offerings and features other than monopolizing games
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It's Epic so it's totally fine to blindly hate them for whatever reason
Still trying to figure out how you haven't realized that this has nothing to do with the EGS.
it's been pointed out over and over again, but you folks just read the OP and jump straight in to continue on the misinformation train.
It's relevant because this is also an online service Epic provides. Please reread what I stated.
It's obvious that they just aren't willing to put the resources into their online offerings and features other than monopolizing games
This was a victim of that as well as the epic game store
Epic has really good cross platform experience and enabled Dauntless to be cross platform by using their user profile system, which Sony allows to cross play with Xbox now apparently (Paragon and Fortnite already cross played with PS4 + PC since the start). It's probably good that it's still on track, and isn't rushed.
you have this completely wrong, and I suggest you read the linked blog post in the OP first before responding. This is Epic Sharing some of their tools and tricks for free to all developers, irrespective of platform or storefront. Its something to be applauded, and really has nothing to do with the EGS or storefront exclusivity.
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