Yeah man, I had the same reaction because Steam is the pioneer in this stuff, at least for us down here in Argentina aswell. Maybe Epic will catch up eventually, but so far we still waiting.
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VG247: “The Epic Games Store is the best choice for buying games in the developing world”
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Yeah man, I had the same reaction because Steam is the pioneer in this stuff, at least for us down here in Argentina aswell. Maybe Epic will catch up eventually, but so far we still waiting.
Actually steam is a crock of shit.
how many times do games just get stuck on download?
how many times do gams get stuck on preallocating?
Recently steam messed up my total war warhammer 2. Instead of just updating with a 3.5gb patch it got stuck on preallocating - then decided to redownload the whole game to a different hard drive then spend 30 minutes transferring it back to my ssd where the game was originally installed.
I've never experienced that particular issue you are describing, and I've been using Steam extensively for at least 10 years now. This is not me saying you are lying, this is me saying you must have encountered a pretty rare bug. Meanwhile, I've had Windows Store/Gamepass PC games redownloading because I paused the download, certain launchers refusing to recognize already installed files after I moved my OS, etc. My experience couldn't be more different than yours in this regard.
I've literally never experienced any of this, not to say it doesn't happen.
Never had this issues myself. (Which doesn't mean it's not true ofc)
In my personal experience
how many times do games just get stuck on download?
rarely
how many times do gams get stuck on preallocating?
maybe once in my experience
Recently steam messed up my total war warhammer 2. Instead of just updating with a 3.5gb patch it got stuck on preallocating - then decided to redownload the whole game to a different hard drive then spend 30 minutes transferring it back to my ssd where the game was originally installed.
This or something similar happened to me TWICE. Thats it.
So while steam certainly has its issues, they're rare and its pro's easily make up for this for me and by a huge ass margin :)
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They doubled down and keep pushing their narrative with the same article and headline. Not a good look.
Worst part is probably that they are trying to troll people who point out why their article / headline is incorrect.
Yikes!
I've had Steam get stuck downloading on Windows 10 but never (as best I can remember) on Windows 7, curiously.
Preallocating, for an initial install, just seems to depend on the size of the game, or patch (or how a particular game handles patching?*) but I've never had that particular issue you experienced.
*American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 can sometimes download a small patch but then stay in the patching process for a while. It's not something I've seen happen with other games so I assume it's how the developer has chosen to handle the process rather than anything unusual happening with Steam.
thats not surprising, seems to be par for the course with all the pro epic articles.They doubled down and keep pushing their narrative with the same article and headline. Not a good look.
Worst part is probably that they are trying to troll people who point out why their article / headline is incorrect.
This is the weirdest take trying to portray Epic Game Store as something new. This requires like a willful ignorance of Steam and its regional currency and payment options in small markets.
They doubled down and keep pushing their narrative with the same article and headline. Not a good look.
Worst part is probably that they are trying to troll people who point out why their article / headline is incorrect.
At this point, is more than willingful ignorance.
This is feature, if you don't have enough space to patch on install drive, it gets temp copied to secondary library.
You just need to have some free space to avoid this.
that's a big ol' yikes.They doubled down and keep pushing their narrative with the same article and headline. Not a good look.
Worst part is probably that they are trying to troll people who point out why their article / headline is incorrect.
Congrats, you just discovered what bad journalism is like
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I live in Cambodia and there's a huge difference in pricing between steam and epic. I'm not sure what's going on with steam, but I just get regular US prices whereas on epic there's a significant discount for most games.
I haven't bought on Epic yet because my PC isn't powerful enough to run the games I'm interested in buying on it (control for example is just over 20 bucks) but when I upgrade my PC I'll definitely go there unless steam gives me similar regional pricing.
I haven't bought on Epic yet because my PC isn't powerful enough to run the games I'm interested in buying on it (control for example is just over 20 bucks) but when I upgrade my PC I'll definitely go there unless steam gives me similar regional pricing.
I think this is country by country basis.
I live in a developing third world country where both Steam and EGS have regional pricing, but pricing on EGS is either the same with Steam or more expensive. Furthermore EGS still don't have local currency so I still have to pay in USD.
The only time when EGS is cheaper than Steam is during their last sale where everything is dirt cheap with coupons.
I live in a developing third world country where both Steam and EGS have regional pricing, but pricing on EGS is either the same with Steam or more expensive. Furthermore EGS still don't have local currency so I still have to pay in USD.
The only time when EGS is cheaper than Steam is during their last sale where everything is dirt cheap with coupons.
Then the title is deliberately misleading. It supports a general statement with a very narrow experience and only one point of that experience. That's it.
If you think all journalism is wrong, you need to reevaluate things.
Nope, that's why I said "journalism" and not just journalism, but yeah that was a shitty way to phrase it, sorry
The editor is telling people to read the article for context.
Yet the editor let that title slide on through, despite the contents of the article.
lol.
Yet the editor let that title slide on through, despite the contents of the article.
lol.
Can this even be considered news. It is a fluff article with a clickbait headline and a bad defense.
The problem is even the context of the article is skewed to be simply a praise on EGS having currency support for Egypt. It doesn't mention anything about how they are double dipping on USD and currency conversion pricing with the likes of Australia or Canada. No mention of forcing extra fees on top of the purchase because of their shitty checkout payment options. It isn't at all an appropriate article dissecting the market of regional pricing, but just a fluff piece coming across as licking the lips of EGS' advertisement money book all the while ignoring actual substance.
Yeah, they knew that having a positive experience with EGS in a region that is ignored by most online stores would be controversial for those who are not part of that region.
Generalizing "Europe" like that shows how ignorant the writer is on the very topic he wants to report on.
Good that we agree on that.
What a headline. I assume the main reason regional pricing on EGS is better in certain countries is because store page "owners" can't edit prices manually yet. It's all monkeys and pulleys over there. Lately, many developers seem to regressing on decent regional prices in all other places, when given the ability to set pricing themselves.
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Really curios why they tripple down when they could simply change the headline to something correct like "EGS is the cheapest choice for buying games in Egypt". I guess nobody would complain about such a headline. Insisting that Egypt equals the whole developing world remains stupid and frames them like they keep re-using this factually incorrect article on purpose for some unknown reasons.
For us in Jamaica and Trinidad..it's epic store or wait until it hits a subscription service.
$60 USD is literally rent money for me.
Getting Star Wars for $23 was eye opening.
$60 USD is literally rent money for me.
Getting Star Wars for $23 was eye opening.
I mean, checking the time (X:30 dependent on time zone) on that tweet indicates it's not a human pushing this particular article to stoke flames or anything, it's something in the backend to push all their articles so they are more likely to be seen by more people across more time zones. It's more noticeable on weekends because less new articles are being written.Really curios why they tripple down when they could simply change the headline to something correct like "EGS is the cheapest choice for buying games in Egypt". I guess nobody would complain about such a headline. Insisting that Egypt equals the whole developing world remains stupid and frames them like they keep re-using this factually incorrect article on purpose for some unknown reasons.
That's not to say the headline is good, mind, it's just not some double or tripling down.
In Steam's case, it's because they have to set up a whole lot of stuff before implementing regional pricing in a new area. They add the new region's currency, plus some of its popular local payment methods (all of which takes time and requires deals with companies in the target region, I assume).
"Best way to buy games in the developing world", define the developing world as Egypt and tadah, you have a shitpost-tier article. How did this get published.
... I have never even heard of these problems... been using Steam.. like.. 10 years.
Where Steam has regional pricing, it is better than EGS one, which is in many regions...
