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How's the Epic Game Store experience been for you?
- Thread starter TaySan
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It's an okay store to get the free games but the client is actually terrible for me. I get a white page frequently which leads to me to delete web-cache. Also, Game images on my library doesn't load. I don't think i will buy any game on it.
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I occasionally grab the free games, if I don't already own them. Used to have the launcher installed, but uninstalled it after the whole "each time you launch it it peeks into your steam folders" fiasco.
It's meh. I don't think I'll ever buy anything from there until Tim & co realize that Canadians don't use American dollars. Free games are all right, having to scroll through all those tiles to see what games are in the store is a pain now.
I'm give it a "meh minus" if I was to grade it.
It's meh. I don't think I'll ever buy anything from there until Tim & co realize that Canadians don't use American dollars. Free games are all right, having to scroll through all those tiles to see what games are in the store is a pain now.
I'm give it a "meh minus" if I was to grade it.
I get free games, I downloaded one and it didn't tell me how big the download was, how fast it was downloading or how big but haven't played anything. No plans on buying anything from them ever.
It works good enough. A bit slow and I wish it had an easier overview of all the games available instead of having to scroll throw a page of big pictures. Or maybe I have just missed it.
I have also tried their refund process once and it worked fine for being a manual process. Basically sent one mail asking for a refund, got a friendly mail back asking for a transaction number or something, sent it to them and got a refund pretty quickly.
Oh, a small thing that always bothers me, when you purchase a game the box you click to purchase looks grayed out so I always get confused, thinking I missed to tick a box somewhere.
I have also tried their refund process once and it worked fine for being a manual process. Basically sent one mail asking for a refund, got a friendly mail back asking for a transaction number or something, sent it to them and got a refund pretty quickly.
Oh, a small thing that always bothers me, when you purchase a game the box you click to purchase looks grayed out so I always get confused, thinking I missed to tick a box somewhere.
I've only actually used it to play Dauntless and claim the free games. It's worked fine for that. It's just another launcher on the pile where I'm concerned.
I mean, they got me in with that insane sale they did and I check it regularly now for the free games, but as a storefront/launcher it's still pretty bad. I remember during the sale it wouldn't give me search results correctly, I could find the items by scrolling but not via the search bar even when I had the name exactly the same and the whole thing where you can buy a single item at a time is incredibly bad for a storefront.
Features wise, I don't really use the EGS enough to complain but it's no where near Steam yet with the amount of features and QoL things they offer.
Features wise, I don't really use the EGS enough to complain but it's no where near Steam yet with the amount of features and QoL things they offer.
I use it all the time for Fortnite. I've played a few games on it other than FN (Celeste and Enter the Gungeon), and I'll keep taking Tim's free handouts, but the store itself is garbage imo. Slow, clunky, bare-bones. Really surprised it hasn't improved at a rapid pace considering the amount of money they're throwing around. I think the Xbox beta app is better and it just came out.
The only thing I do like about it is they're funding a lot of quality devs (which I'll buy when they get to Steam), and I don't think we would've seen some of the Sony exclusives come to PC if not for their money as well.
The only thing I do like about it is they're funding a lot of quality devs (which I'll buy when they get to Steam), and I don't think we would've seen some of the Sony exclusives come to PC if not for their money as well.
Launchers are all just bloatware to me. EGS may lack basic features but at least it makes it a lighter bloat than Steam.
My only experience with it is with Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. I had no issue purchasing or installing it, the price was more than fair, and since the game has no DRM, a little command line on the shortcut allows me to launch it without even opening EGS in the background. I only launch EGS once in a while to check if there is a patch.
I've also activated a few free games but haven't downloaded them and I don't know if I will, but hey, they're free, so might as well grab them.
So I'd rate my experience with it "meh". Lacks features, but what's there works well enough.
My only experience with it is with Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. I had no issue purchasing or installing it, the price was more than fair, and since the game has no DRM, a little command line on the shortcut allows me to launch it without even opening EGS in the background. I only launch EGS once in a while to check if there is a patch.
I've also activated a few free games but haven't downloaded them and I don't know if I will, but hey, they're free, so might as well grab them.
So I'd rate my experience with it "meh". Lacks features, but what's there works well enough.
I got Control for free.
It might as well not be in a launcher since there really is nothing to it. It downloaded when I clicked the download button and played when I clicked the play button and that's my entire experience with the launcher.
That can be a good thing or not depending on what you want.
It might as well not be in a launcher since there really is nothing to it. It downloaded when I clicked the download button and played when I clicked the play button and that's my entire experience with the launcher.
That can be a good thing or not depending on what you want.
I don't have any issues. Its working fine.
For sure now that I am playing my first game there (Borderlands 3) the experience is a lot better than my first game on the Microsoft Store (Forza Horizon 3).
For sure now that I am playing my first game there (Borderlands 3) the experience is a lot better than my first game on the Microsoft Store (Forza Horizon 3).
You can buy games, download and play them fine, but it's worse at everything else than any other launcher.
My library is so cluttered from all the free games and from what I can tell there is so no way to filter. Earlier this week I tried to stop a download and the client just would not have it.
If they didn't have Fortnite, exclusives and free games no one would have any reason to bother with their sorry excuse for a launcher.
My library is so cluttered from all the free games and from what I can tell there is so no way to filter. Earlier this week I tried to stop a download and the client just would not have it.
If they didn't have Fortnite, exclusives and free games no one would have any reason to bother with their sorry excuse for a launcher.
It deleted Metro when it hit an error updating...never bought another game after that. It also doesn't utilize my bandwidth, other launchers utilize north of 60MB/s, EGS for some reason caps me at 30MB/s on my 100MB/s internet.
Sergey is really open for feedback on Twitter so maybe give him a tweet.
Playtime tracking is in actually. Click on the gear icon next to play button.
I've only ever redeemed the free games on it. I guess I did install it a long time ago to get Shadow Complex remastered for free and to play the Unreal Tournament Alpha though.
The only game I've actually played using it was Edith Finch, and it worked fine...
I big ol' fat "eh..." for me.
The only game I've actually played using it was Edith Finch, and it worked fine...
I big ol' fat "eh..." for me.
No currency conversion makes it a big nah for me. I use it to play Fortnite STW with friends and the download speed for it are awful too.
So pretty bad.
So pretty bad.
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The client is sluggish and slows down other apps (like Firefox) when it is switched on. Never bought a game on it and I never will - I'll just take the freebies and play them without the launcher, since most of them launch fine without it.
Considering a lot of games launch without opening the client, it's not a major inconvenience to my in-home streaming setup (just add the exe - and for the few that kick up a fuss OSOL works fine), and I'd have probably bought something in their Mega Sale if they hadn't gone down the exclusive games route.
Considering a lot of games launch without opening the client, it's not a major inconvenience to my in-home streaming setup (just add the exe - and for the few that kick up a fuss OSOL works fine), and I'd have probably bought something in their Mega Sale if they hadn't gone down the exclusive games route.
It sometimes works long enough for me to redeem the free games, and then quit out until the next week.
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For those that only use to redeem the free games and quit. What's the point if you are never going to play them anyways? Might as well just uninstall it lol
No problems whatsoever... i just want to launch the games, whatever store it its.... don´t care for the rest (achievments, etc...)
It's barebones but I'm personally not bothered by the lack of features at all. I haven't had any technical issues with the store so my experience has been fine.
completely fine if not excellent.
Works just well enough and with a russian account I have Control and Borderlands 3 for the total price of roughly $35USD honestly couldnt ask for anything more. Plus the free games constantly are nice and although I dont play all of them I have played and completed a few so thats already worth the effort of clicking another icon to me.
Works just well enough and with a russian account I have Control and Borderlands 3 for the total price of roughly $35USD honestly couldnt ask for anything more. Plus the free games constantly are nice and although I dont play all of them I have played and completed a few so thats already worth the effort of clicking another icon to me.
Better than Windows Store and the new Xbox App for sure. It's not on par with Galaxy, Uplay, Origin, and Steam, obviously. But it's been okay so far for me. Not a yay! but due to the lack of a better option I vote this.
You can claim the free games from the website, no need to use the client.
It's great when you don't have to use it.
But it's missing basic features like download speed limit so it doesn't trash internet, though their speed suck so much it doesn't matter.
Then they have metrics like write speed. But it's also hilariously incorrect:
I guess someone though it was neat, coded it, and shipped it. But it was never tested.
But it does launch games most of time.
But it's missing basic features like download speed limit so it doesn't trash internet, though their speed suck so much it doesn't matter.
Then they have metrics like write speed. But it's also hilariously incorrect:
I guess someone though it was neat, coded it, and shipped it. But it was never tested.
But it does launch games most of time.
It starts games, it does what it is supposed to do. So yay.
I don't need any extra features like achievements or friend lists and stuff. If I could I wouöd get rid of all these launchers and storefronts and just start it from my own menu, the only programs I use when playing (and not streaming) are discord
I don't need any extra features like achievements or friend lists and stuff. If I could I wouöd get rid of all these launchers and storefronts and just start it from my own menu, the only programs I use when playing (and not streaming) are discord
