r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 16h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/gigatension 15h ago

I don’t think they’re actually trying to get people away from Steam I think they’re trying to get people who have never been on Steam to think that epic is better. There’s no way they think they can actually get customers to switch with their garbage platform.

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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 15h ago

And let's be honest, if they didn't have fortnite, epic wouldn't have its own store, unlike steam who even if you don't include counter strike, there's a boat load of reasons to use steam

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u/Puzzled_Connection 15h ago

I mean in all fairness, Steam started as basically nuisance ware that only exists because it was tied to Half Life 2, it’s just they now have a multi decade head start on building out their platform and developing network effects

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u/cgaWolf 13h ago

All true, but EGS has had 8 years to get good.

Steam 8 years in was established, for example it's where everyone got Skyrim when it first came out. We had Steam Cloud, Community & Workshop by then, and even the MacOS client.

10 years in we got family libraries.

Very different from the "STEAMing pile of shit" reputation in 2003.