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/
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u/MoonAttempt 9h ago edited 9h ago

Hard to near a competitor when you are adding nothing it offers and you don't come up with any notable features other than free games sometimes.

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u/Roflsaucerr 9h ago

Must be especially hard when your offer of free games actually causes a surge in purchases on Steam.

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u/JimboTCB 9h ago

Does paying developers a dump truck full of money for exclusivity count as a feature?

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u/Niceromancer 9h ago

Only if running to the courts screaming monopoly also counts as a feature.

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u/MoonAttempt 9h ago

Immoral feature ig.

Hopefully some power can free Alan Wake 2 one day 

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u/Amidatelion 8h ago

An exclusivity so heinous pirates went out of their way to make the game as accessible as possible off the platform.

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u/Shiplord13 9h ago

You’d think the obvious solution would be revamp your store page and add features to streamline the process and improve quality for the user experience. The thing that most people seem to complain about it is the interface after and Sweeney.

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u/MoonAttempt 9h ago

It changed recently, but even claiming free games used to take you through a few unnecessary steps like making an order for a free game.

Steam just requires a one click for that for as long as I can remember.

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u/Youutternincompoop 8h ago

all they had to do was copy an existing example and they've completely failed lmao.

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u/Fredasa 7h ago

Epic once had a theoretical* platform exclusivity to a game I wanted to play: The Outer Worlds. (Which turned out to be reasonably entertaining, within an AA scope.)

I consider that an anti-feature.

*I say theoretically, because in fact it just wasn't on Steam. That rankled, but I was still able to play it on Gamepass for a buck. A lot of my joy came from being able to snub Epic.

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u/mOdQuArK 5h ago

Networking economics is also hard to beat. Even if they had a Steam clone w/all the same features & capacity, they'd still have to compete the large selection of games are using Steam for distribution.