And did you listen to the concerns people have?
I couldnt access the EGS for several months since I am in China and Epic literally blocked chinese IPs.
People who want to play with their preferred gamepad cant play it.
People on Linux cant really play the exclusive games.
People like achievements and, when cloud saves werent there, want that.
There are a lot of reasons why people would rather play it on Steam or not at all.
Of course its just games, but I mean this is a videogame forum, where people literally make parties for a Super Smash brothers character trailer.
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I really think there is a disconnect between the customers (how big they can even be) and developers. Both have pretty good arguments in my opinion.
Of course I listened. How could any developer not? We've had this stuff crammed into any thread that is even tangentially related to EGS. "Ad nauseum" is the term that comes to mind. It's exhausting to have people constantly be responding like "are you not listening!?". Of course developers are listening. Frankly, people are making a mega mountain out of a molehill on this issue, and it becomes harder and harder to separate the decent takes from ones that flat out reads like parody. There are several posts in this thread that I actually couldn't tell if they were joking or not.
I am almost entirely in agreement with Schreier's tweet going around. Hearing the 6000th person yell about "anti competition" (which nearly blows my mind) is not really bringing anything new to the discussion at this point. I'm not sure how we move the discussion forward when people are this worked up about things like not having a shopping cart or achievements. My hope is that over time, people will just turn the volume down a bit and begrudgingly install the Epic launcher and play the games they love while Epic slowly trickles out nice-to-have features.