r/gaming • u/doublah • 10h ago

Epic Games' new store is fully vibe-coded, and they're so proud of it they're taking shots at Steam

https://www.destructoid.com/epic-games-store-ai-vibe-coded/
11.6k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

489

u/Raulimus 9h ago

I don’t, but never once have I thought “if this shit doesn’t open faster soon I’m ditching it. “
Sounds like the kind of stupidity a vibe coding enthusiast would concern themselves with.

106

u/JMEEKER86 9h ago

“if this shit doesn’t open faster soon I’m ditching it. “

Tbf, that's definitely something I've thought while using the Epic launcher before lol. Shit was sloooooow. If it didn't provide free games then I would absolutely have never touched it because the experience was so bad. It's very noticeably faster now, although still not exactly great.

4

u/seantreason 8h ago

This is why I've switched to heroic launcher. Mostly for epic, but it also does Amazon and gog and as a prime member who collects all the free games it's super convenient.

1

u/desmaraisp 7h ago

Yup same here. Well, initially not by choice, but I like it much better than the EGS launcher

5

u/SuperSocialMan PC 8h ago

Same here, but I still barely claim the free stuff lol

1

u/EthanielRain 10m ago

Same but there have been some good ones. Control was free

18

u/foxguy2021 8h ago

I bet the vast majority of steam users have it launch on windows startup anyway. Its just something that is already loaded by the time they start doing anything.

This isn't 2005 anymore where the vast majority of PCs were running single core processors and having something like steam sitting in the backgroud could impact your overall performance.

They basically made a lightweight version of EGS and surprise it loads faster then a fully fleshed out mature product.

1

u/Awkward_Pangolin3254 2h ago

I used to, but for whatever reason in Windows 11 it would lock up my machine every time. Windows would load, but I couldn't click on anything. Took me six months to figure out. I thought it was Windows Update, because the only time I restart my computer is after an update, so I'd update, then restart, and bam. Only thing that would work was a Windows refresh. Then it'd be fine until I installed all my stuff again, and the next update hit. Finally came across the solution deep in some forum thread about something only tangentially related. Removed Steam from the startup programs and I've been fine ever since. Steam starts automatically when I run a game from the Desktop anyway, so who cares?

3

u/a-frog-with-no-name 5h ago

Everything about Epic Games Store was extremely fucking slow for so long to the point where I didn't even play any of the free games I got from it and gave up on it years ago

I can see why they'd focus so much on speed for this new client

Nowadays i dont play any games on epic because i hate tim sweeney

2

u/Hans_H0rst 8h ago

The epic launcher legitimately takes minutes to open up at the worst of times. On a beefy system.

So im choosing between browsing steam, opening up a game, and already loading and being in game or alternatively still wait for the damn epic launcher to open up and ask me to sign in again, with MFA.

2

u/hilosplit 6h ago

Funnily enough- that is my most frequent thought about Steam.

2

u/PM_Best_Porn_Pls 5h ago

Load times matter but only to certain point. I'd be mad if steam took 5 minutes to launch but I really don't care about difference in seconds.

1

u/rtxa 2h ago

I absolutely have thought that and even did that with other software. Steam is not great for this, but tolerable

0

u/duckofdeath87 5h ago

I will admit that I find steam sluggish. But 14% faster is still sluggish

Heroic Launcher is less than half the launc time of steam. THAT actually feels better