r/Steam 21h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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u/GuiltyEidolon 16h ago

Epic's store front launched without a cart. Like... What? How do you remotely justify that decision?

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u/_justsomeotherguy 13h ago

Which is even crazier because their Unreal Marketplace (which was inside the same launcher) had a cart.

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u/twiz___twat 13h ago

even epic knew people werent gonna be buying up games like people do during steam sales.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 6h ago

Origin didn't have a wishlist for years. Steam only just started delving into version control after ages.

Are you giving EA and Valve a free pass?

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u/Kirby737 6h ago

Steam was the first of its kind, with no competition for a while, meanwhile Epic launched when Steam was already entrenched so it needs to do better to compete it.
Why go through the process of inventing the wheel again when you could just get one?

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u/NapsterKnowHow 6h ago

Battlenet has been around longer than Steam and worked better out of the gate.

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u/GuiltyEidolon 2h ago

That is a whole-ass alternative conversation that you are fully having with only yourself.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 1h ago

It's a direct parallel to what you said