Epic is not a fly by night outfit. They are one of the most successful and most important companies in gaming period - with Unreal Engine and whatnot. Epic is not going to take your money and not give you a game. They aren't into penny antee stuff.
Feature lists are only useful for list wars. Steam has big, big problems that could be solved by culling some of those features, which is what Epic is doing - they have described as much publicity.
Steam also has lots of bloat, lots of garbage from 2004. Stuff like DVD game backups and a built in MP3 player. The entire app feels like a Windows XP time machine. Building something new and modern is a good thing to do.
What happened is that people got used to Steam, accepted it, began to like it. We should recognize that for what it is.
That's a load of misinformed stuff here.
No, features arent a list war. These are stuff people uses when they use a SERVICE.
Focus on this word: S-E-R-V-I-C-E.
And no, these features arent the issue. Reviews or boards aren't issues. They are tools. Sure, some people abuse it. But there's also abuse from devs.
And when you claim Epic fixes these issues of abuse, you're far from the truth:
So far, Epic's policy hasnt been one of fixing, but moving the problem aside and telling devs "Do it elsewhere, we dont want to touch it".
"There are toxic users on forums ? We wont have forums. No forums, no issues. Do it elsewhere." Aka Reddit or Twitter, the most toxic places on the internet.
"There are users abusing reviews (which happens less often than devs abusing it) ? There'll be no reviews if you dont want to. No review, no problem."
Lot of bloats ? How's Steam bloated ? The thing runs on Atom CPUs without pushing the CPU usage too much.
And the feature you list dont even comes off as "bloat" since they introduce no performance penalty.
Why do you complain that people can make DVD backups ?
It's an OPTION. No, it's not bloat. It's more options for people, which doesnt hurt. It can be used to make backups for any kind of drives btw.
The MP3 player isnt some "2004 era Windows era stuff". It was added recently. Dont want it ? Dont use it. If that's some Windows XP era stuff, what's Epic Games Store stuff ? Windows 95 ? Without even a search feature.
Building something new ?
That's where you start not making sense. It's not because it's new that it's good. In fact, considering that the bloat point is wrong, it's not even a problem. It's quite the opposite when your new, 2018 client cant even compete feature wise to the 2013 version of your competitor.
People didnt got "used to Steam". Steam kept improving dramatically. Steam keeps improving.
