Epic Games is releasing a new PC launcher very soon

[u/-git]

[u/Wittusus]

Let me guess, still no user reviews for games?

[u/maxlaav → u/Wittusus]

I'm sure their AI model will add those over time

[u/JerryMau5 → u/maxlaav]

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was an AI review as well

[u/AloneYogurt → u/JerryMau5]

Honestly it'll probably be built with AI so it'll look wonky as shit and perform worse too. And that's just a store page.

[u/Lashley93 → u/AloneYogurt]

It IS built with AI

"Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.

This first release is light on features. Think of it as a speedboat and not a yacht! Though it does have advanced digital commerce technology such as a shopping cart."

[u/Kniferharm → u/Lashley93]

Cutting edge commerce right there, 8 years of development for a top of the range shopping cart feature

[u/omfgkevin → u/Kniferharm]

Just like how unlike every other launcher where the left side has your games and you can right click to do things like uninstall etc, theirs existed SOLELY to quick launch games.

Yep. That's it. The same feature other games have but worse because if you want to uninstall your games you have to go out of your way to -_-.

It's such a minor thing but it really encapsulates all the crap the store is known for. Just an astounding lack of QOL.

[u/maxlaav → u/Lashley93]

That genuinely reads like an april's fools jokes, it's unreal (heh...) they actually said that lmao, dear Lord

[u/SolarJetman5 → u/maxlaav]

Also snuck in a yacht joke too

[u/Eorily → u/Lashley93]

We included "load faster" in the prompt

[u/jdPetacho → u/maxlaav]

It will summarize the human reviews on steam

[u/aimy99 → u/maxlaav]

No, because they explicitly do not want user reviews.

Tim Sweeney (the CEO of Epic Games, literal defender of AI-generated CP) has gone on record constantly about how upset he is at Steam's consumer-friendliness. He doesn't want consumers to be able to voice their criticisms, he doesn't want consumers to know if a game is made with generative AI, he lets NFT slop run rampant on Epic and then claims Valve is...*checks notes* greedy for banning it over concerns of fraud, accusing them of actually banning it because they don't get their 30% when NFTs are traded, as though his own company didn't buy Rocket League and then kill its trading system so that players had even less ownership of their cosmetics than they started with.

Tim Sweeney is a.) a fucking creep, and b.) the absolute worst kind of person to be allowed success with a storefront.

[u/Easy_Needleworker604 → u/aimy99]

I’ll never forget how Tim Sweeney tweeted all day every day through 2020 acting like the Apple App Store taking 30% was the biggest issue of all time while people were being loaded into mobile morgues and the police were maiming journalists.

Like read the room dude

[u/CanuckleHeadOG → u/Wittusus]

No user reviews, no offline mode unless you're actually disconnected, can't turn off chat

What we got was a new UI

[u/000extra → u/Wittusus]

They won’t do it bc they don’t want bad reviews on their own games

[u/dib1999 → u/Wittusus]

Easiest reply ever from steam lmao

Speed (vs EGS) • user reviews --> yes vs no

[u/VizualAbstract4 → u/Wittusus]

No, but let me guess, they built it by saying “Claude, make me Steam but better.”

[u/Fickle-Sugar-2493 → u/VizualAbstract4]

MAKE NO MISTAKES

[u/BeerGogglesFTW → u/Wittusus]

Probably not a good idea for EGS to have user reviews.

Not anytime soon anyway. People will probably review bomb games just for being on EGS,

[u/big-oofs-only-0193 → u/BeerGogglesFTW]

Especially the EGS exclusives and timed exclusives.

[u/realnzall → u/Wittusus]

Epic does have user reviews from what I understand. The problem is that the way they’re designed heavily biases towards people who like the game. Basically, they choose who can review a game, and the more hours you play, the more likely you are to get picked to write a review.

[u/kron123456789 → u/realnzall]

Epic has user ratings and user tags. Not actual reviews. And those user tags don't have any negative ones.

[u/RovDer → u/Wittusus]

Do reviews really matter for a weekly free game launcher though

[u/Wittusus → u/RovDer]

Free game launcher? No, but Epic is trying really hard for people to use it as an actual game launcher, they are far from having the required functionality for people to even consider. Steam is the obvious best, Gog has less sales and games, but no DRM. Epic? It's just a pile of shit that sometimes gives you freebies, most of which are almost worthless.

[u/RovDer → u/Wittusus]

Completely agree, I think I have close to 300 games in my Epic library and only payed for two.

[u/mugiwara_no_Soissie → u/Wittusus]

Your comment shows exactly where Epic is going wrong. Nobody cares about going from 10 to 5 seconds n such, thats literally nothing lol. There are plenty of reasons why steam is better and as long as Epic doesn't have those they won't be better.

That along with Epic as a company being a lot less likeable than steam, people being used to the steam ecosystem and Epic being newer are all reasons why I don't see them ever winning over Valve, unless Valve majorly screws up

[u/PoliteQueef]

[u/Smokey_Bera → u/PoliteQueef]

https://giphy.com/gifs/LOu8FUhPgpeUAi0wiu

[u/NebraskaGeek → u/Smokey_Bera]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7k2LoEykY5i1hfeWQB

[u/IvarSolaris]

Yes definitely the thing that bothers me the most with Steam is that my library takes 0.42s to load. /s

If they think that being a few milliseconds faster will move Steam users to their tools they are delusional lol.

[u/splendiferous-finch_ → u/IvarSolaris]

Of course it loads faster, because your epic library is empty with no real playtime data etc. because you have never used it compared to steam which you unfortunately have been using for years probably. It's a genious innovation you see

[u/Vawned → u/splendiferous-finch_]

I (like many others) grab all the free stuff. I have no idea what I have there cause I cannot see them without installing the launcher, which I refuse to do.

[u/Master_Chief_00117 → u/Vawned]

I gave up on grabbing the free stuff, they rarely give anything good (which makes sense) and even if they do I don’t use them.

[u/Greedy-Pineapple-914 → u/Master_Chief_00117]

I got RDR2 for free one week and it's been downhill from there

[u/Stressedhumbucker → u/Master_Chief_00117]

I gave up on the free games after I tried to log in to claim a title one day and found the website was so broken that I literally could not progress past the captcha. The free games are not worth the stress of trying to log in.

[u/Stargost_ → u/Vawned]

I recommend using the Heroic launcher.

It can integrate with EGS and download your games without ever opening the actual Epic launcher. It can even automatically add the games to your Steam library as a non-Steam game.

[u/GreyKnightTemplar666 → u/IvarSolaris]

They could offer a new free game, of my own choice, once a month for no subscription costs, and I still wouldn't switch from Steam to the dog pile shit that is the epic store

[u/o_oli → u/IvarSolaris]

What makes me laugh is that they didn't even give a figure on the store launching so it's probably an even smaller increase.

[u/No_Solid_3737]

Imagine handing out free AAA games and people still avoid using your shit launcher.

[u/01_Mikoru → u/No_Solid_3737]

I like how it scanned my files for stream and got my friends list without asking or even telling me it was doing this

[u/Desistance → u/01_Mikoru]

Luckily my friends don't like Epic Games.

[u/TotallyBrandNewName → u/No_Solid_3737]

I so far bought Hell Let loose, Control, Death stranding, Batman trilogy on Steam even if I had them on EGS.

Idk if people say it but imo, Epic Games Store just sounds so bad, like those websites we used to play as a kid...

[u/Neirchill → u/TotallyBrandNewName]

I won't even install their launcher to get free games

[u/TotallyBrandNewName → u/Neirchill]

I used to but then I started thinking I can hoard all those games but the devs will see their big numbers and no played time and I felt bad for them.

[u/Essurio → u/TotallyBrandNewName]

The free games make banger demos though.

[u/No_Solid_3737 → u/TotallyBrandNewName]

Same, I had Control and Overcook on EGS for free, I still bought them on steam.

[u/DonaldTrumpsGolfGame → u/No_Solid_3737]

It's also going to be really hard to unseat the community and ecosystem Steam has built for 2 decades. You don't beat that with just faster download speeds or quicker launch times

[u/01_Mikoru → u/DonaldTrumpsGolfGame]

Doesn’t epic have neither lol

[u/Roger_Stringpiece]

Epic are pissing in the wind at this point

[u/Cavalol → u/Roger_Stringpiece]

https://giphy.com/gifs/vioF89VexGQqA
Epic games next to Steam

[u/TheStupendusMan → u/Cavalol]

Ngl, I thought Criterion was shit posting and wondered if I was still asleep...

https://giphy.com/gifs/2XskdWuNUyqElkKe4bm

[u/gbroon]

To be honest I've never really had a reason to go "steams too slow".

[u/KristyNoemsZombieDog → u/gbroon]

Lol, Epic trying to fix nonexistent problems and then presenting them as revolutionary.

[u/Sinister_Mr_19 → u/gbroon]

That was my reaction, Steam is pretty fast. Epic Games Store doesn't need to be faster, it needs features.

[u/rodryguezzz]

It starts up faster because it has 5% of the features.

[u/SilentPizzle → u/rodryguezzz]

And 280% of the ads

[u/frisbie147 → u/rodryguezzz]

I mean their old launcher has less features and takes like 5x longer to launch than steam

[u/Larry_The_Red]

wow epic is really coming along. it took 3 years for them to add a cart feature so people could buy more than 1 game at a time and then only 5 more years for "switching tabs doesn't lag anymore"

[u/Bathelomue]

"Piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a UI responsiveness issue"

[u/Nightblade178 → u/Bathelomue]

lmfao

[u/Several_Detective400]

Can I sort my Library

Can I select what page opens first on launch

Does it actually work properly

Is it available for Linux to screw windows if needed?

[u/Moblam → u/Several_Detective400]

More importantly, will it fucking remember me now? I have to go through the full authentification process every time i start Epic. It doesn't take long, but apparently Epic really cares about being seconds faster now.

[u/DukeofVermont → u/Several_Detective400]

Can I hide or remove games from my library!?

I'm still baffled how this still isn't a thing. Got that free game that you didn't like and don't want anymore? Too bad, it's there forever.

Their "solution" is to make a collection with everything but the one game, then when you open Epic click on that collection so you don't have to see it.

It's so incredibly stupid.

[u/dbltax]

Oh man, 0.36s vs 0.42s for library load?!

I'm sold, just think of all the things I could do with that extra 0.06 seconds.

[u/AndroidSheeps → u/dbltax]

Literally reads like satire lmao

[u/dogdiarrhea → u/AndroidSheeps]

I feel like I’ve been on this email chain where some MBA is like we need metrics to show we’re better and the eng team shrugs and gives them the most random shit they can find.

[u/almacsutkaa2 → u/dbltax]

Think big, doing it 1000 times saves a whole minute!!!

[u/idlickherbootyhole]

just put the free game in the bag

[u/RoyHehe → u/idlickherbootyhole]

To be honest I have gotten free games on Epic Games, but I'd much rather pirate the game than open this dogshit launcher, oh wait I can't even do that officially because I am on Linux, another win for Linux by not having dogshit launchers on there 

[u/mehrzweckeier]

Great... Comparing speed instead of overall usability, because that's what really matters.

[u/NoHighlight6142 → u/mehrzweckeier]

Now you have the ability to not use Epic's Launcher - faster

[u/Solforge_Mystic]

Ah yes loading times, the thing really making me think about not using steam.

[u/Zovanget]

Doesn't seem like any of the features people actually cared about.

[u/Yod-]

wow 0.36 seconds instead of 0.42 seconds... yeah it's time to abandon Steam...

what kind of metrics are those lol

[u/ADotxt]

Is Steam? No.

Ok next.

The only other games launch I will respect and use is GOG.

[u/StevenTheNerdy → u/ADotxt]

GOG Galaxy is unironically pretty sweet! Wish it was slightly more consistent at detecting game installs from Steam and stuff, but I love their launcher overall

[u/PoppingPillls → u/StevenTheNerdy]

My only issue with GOG Galaxy is it's slightly confusing max save game system and less intuitive functionality.

That said I do use it for all my CDprojektred games and my older games.

[u/WorstITTechnician]

I always think competition is a good thing, leading to better prices and healthier competition that benefits the consumer, but honestly, I don't feel that need when it comes to Steam, and even less so when it comes to Epic

[u/Frooonti → u/WorstITTechnician]

I just don't get why they've been burning billions handing out free games for years, paying devs for exclusivity, etc and never touched the freaking launcher that absolutely no one liked. It just doesn't make any sense.

[u/Mr_Fury → u/Frooonti]

I think they’re done doing exclusivity for now. I don’t think there’s been a new exclusive since Alan wake 2. Unless you want to count gacha games

[u/AymuiLove → u/Mr_Fury]

Gacha games arent a tiny share of the market today. Go look up what type of money those earn if you don't believe me.

[u/EpycZen2 → u/WorstITTechnician]

Steam has good track record yes, but ownership can change hands any second, good people can get too sick to work/die and get replaced by others who are more focused on the bottom line. Two good rules of thumb are: 1: never have loyalty for a company/brand/{insert category of non-human entity of your choosing here} 2: competition is ALWAYS good

[u/busy_monster → u/WorstITTechnician]

I can see the need, however Epic exposed their far more anti-consumer bent when they poached presales and fucked consumers when they launched their store front. 

[u/chalogr → u/WorstITTechnician]

Yeah as a game developer I completely disagree. Steam taking 30 percent of a game’s revenue is terrible. And the eshop, Xbox store and psn store are equally terrible. I would love to have an alternative store with a large consumer base where I could sell my game and lose 20 percent or less of my revenue to the store owner rather than a whopping 30 percent. It’s not like they are advertising my game or putting it on the storefront with banners.

[u/kaveman6143]

Epic is just AI slop now, and they aspire to be even sloppier.

[u/Fininho92]

Ah yes the load time was what stopped me from switching

[u/Jumpy-Astronaut7444]

Of course the library loads quicker than Steam, it's basically empty

[u/DeBasha]

Awesome! Now I can still not install it

[u/JigsawLV]

Like a supermarket saying that their bread is 5 meters closer to the entrance than the other supermarket

[u/RedSkullah]

Love how they didn't even bother comparing it to the current EGL.

[u/busy_monster → u/RedSkullah]

How else is Tim "Clanker-Throater" Sweeney to get back at Gaben for giving him so many swirlies back in primary school? 

[u/VinceLince]

Don't care + didn't ask + fuck epic games

[u/ConeHill]

The biggest problem with epic is it is a platform favors devs not customers

[u/r31ya → u/ConeHill]

With steam, they have template to follow and they have the war chest to fight

and they decided to do away what makes steam unique (user review and user community page) and simply opt to outspend steam in bonuses.

that went really well...

[u/GibbonFit → u/ConeHill]

Yep. And the whole exclusivity contracts were them trying to force a user base. Tim was all about the developers, but feels he's simply entitled to the customer base. He doesn't realize the best way to attract customers is by making a store that people want to use and not one they have to use.

[u/ApiceOfToast → u/GibbonFit]

On the "have to use" thing, I have purposefully avoided games because they were exclusive to epic and I know I'm not the only one.

[u/Alien_Cha1r]

timmy asked claude to make a new launcher and make no mistakes. and it somehow still ends up being better than humans managed by him, I will laugh

[u/kron123456789]

Nice. But unfortunately might be too little too late.

[u/Kyxstrez]

Knowing Tim Sweeney stance on AI development in video games, I bet it will be vibecoded.

[u/fhiz → u/Kyxstrez]

The first lines of their announcement are “Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look.”

Like Jesus Christ. Billion dollar company, constant lay offs, less than optimized engine like 2/3 the industry relies on and they open up with “Programming is hard LOL.” Fuck offffffff.

https://store.epicgames.com/news/epic-games-launcher-preview

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/Kyxstrez]

and you are correct

[u/Neirchill → u/Kyxstrez]

they proudly admit it

[u/esp3ciallyd3ad → u/Kyxstrez]

With code written like this

https://giphy.com/gifs/X8GT1SbEH3Tj4DDgQi

[u/-Weezmo]

Will it have epicgameslauncher services working in the background when the app is fully closed ?

[u/Darthmullet]

Quite telling that they say "faster" four different ways but don't say anything about features, almost like it won't have any just like the current store. But will it be training its AI on me...

[u/Macaron-kun]

None of these "Speed Vs Steam" make any difference. Even if it loaded instantaneously, it wouldn't make a difference. It's not Steam, so it will never beat Steam.

The number of things that Steam has over any theoretical "better" Epic Games launcher is so high that even if it was a literal Steam clone, it would still be vastly inferior to Steam.

[u/Embarrassed_Adagio28]

1. Steam has never taken 10 seconds to open in my life so I question every other metric here. 

2. Can someone give me a link to the actual changes because not a single one shown matters even a little bit. 

3. Epic games can eat my WHOLE ASS with their ai policy. 

[u/That_Service7348 → u/Embarrassed_Adagio28]

It's important to keep in mind they built this new launcher with AI. And it has less features than the old launcher. It's literally a shittier vibe coded relaunch, and they are proud of that.

[u/SnideyM]

Oh cool, maybe it'll be easier to use it to grab their free games and for literally nothing else.

[u/fart-to-me-in-french → u/SnideyM]

*and never launch them

[u/s8018572]

Probably all done by Claude like their newest game

[u/Mr_Siphon]

a faster load time to a lesser experience. Exactly what we need

[u/ThePoop_Accelerates]

Is it centered around the needs and desires of the customers? No? Fuck off.

[u/virgin4ever69]

> store loads 3x faster

Cmon

[u/OverwatchRever]

Nice ragebait. Almost fell for it

[u/Gregore997]

took them what, 10 years?

[u/Xcissors280]

Can i download games in less than an hour with a gigiabit internet conenction?

[u/RoyHehe]

Did they even gave a fuck to release it officially on Linux or Tim Sweeney still hating on it?

[u/BossHogGA]

It’s too late. Our family sharing steam library has 5000+ games in it. I get all the free epic games but only spend money on steam because of family sharing.

[u/ItsBitly]

Cause speed was the reqson people don't like epic launcher. Not the lack of basic community features.

[u/Umluex]

2x the speed! 1/10 the features!!

[u/ZombifiedByCataclysm]

I don't like Tim Sweeney at all, so it doesn't matter how much they improve their store.

[u/Blackarm777 → u/ZombifiedByCataclysm]

Yeah in the beginning it was just about how bad the Epic Store was compared to things like Steam and GOG or even Battlenet.

Now it's about not putting more money into the pockets of a vile scumbag who will go out of his way to even defend stuff like the really fucked up non consensual sexual content people were generating with Grok.

[u/beefjesus69 → u/ZombifiedByCataclysm]

Any time I hear of him it's because he said some stupid nonsense that I completely disagree with.

I only ever downloaded their fuckshit client to claim the occasional free game. Never spent a dollar, never will. They can eat my farts.

[u/ThorsHammer_15]

A new Launcher to get the free games 😴

[u/macabrera → u/ThorsHammer_15]

I have like 50 free games over there, never played once. Why? I don't know, I like free stuff but hate that launcher.

[u/otravoyadnoe]

Great, so the next time I wanna replay the only game I ever bought in that damned store (Alan Wake 2), it will launch a bit faster. Good to know.

[u/Locky0999]

Until I see a real patch notes:

https://giphy.com/gifs/PjU0WtzRVbQUO4qe6v

[u/neojoe74]

Someone decompile this and put to bed whether or not China is farming our data.

[u/invalidmean → u/neojoe74]

I can save people time here. Just assume they are.

[u/cubecasts]

Cool. I'll stick with steam. Does epic even have profile pictures yet?

[u/Its_Fonzo → u/cubecasts]

Judging by the screenshot, no

[u/AimAlajv]

Just put Alan Wake 2 on steam assholes.

[u/Shadow_s_Bane]

Features -> 15 vs 3000(200 times lower)

[u/aubub]

“You’re too slow!!!” - Sonic

[u/Royal_Ad_2653]

How far will it launch my pc?

[u/FinancialAd1991]

I'm too lazy to even open their launcher for a free game

[u/Parry_9000]

It's going to take A LOT to get people out of steam.

[u/Strider5193]

That's cool and all but I'm still not going to use it.

[u/Phill721]

I think comparing themselves to steam is already a bad start. If your only way of attracting users is attacking your competitors instead of offering something new is quite bad

[u/Dr_Valen]

That’s cool epic is still run by epic and steam is still run by valve. Valve has built significantly more community good will than epic so I’ll stick with the company that I know won’t screw me over

[u/Zeta_Crossfire]

Holy shit a whole 5 seconds faster on start up? Damn, time to move my whole collection over to epic. Dude these guys are a joke

[u/DolanMcRoland]

Will games like Fortnite still take 30+ mins for a 450Mb update where 3/4 of that time is spent downloading and writing a handful of packets at a time on a 1Gb/s connection + SSD?

If yes, it's still trash. If no, it's a little less trash.

[u/msherretz → u/DolanMcRoland]

Yeah, a new launcher won't solve slow server connections

[u/MeisterHyprion]

Are they also allowing me to start it while I am offline?

[u/7978_]

Yeah, load times weren't the problems with the Epic store...

[u/ohaiibuzzle]

Oh cool so it's faster so it can be closed away faster when opened by accident? /s

[u/Statickgaming]

Family sharing?

[u/TheZoroark007]

I only care if they finally managed to make the "Remember Me" button actually do SOMETHING

[u/fart-to-me-in-french → u/TheZoroark007]

WHO THE FUCK IS THIS

[u/CosmicEyeball]

Nice! I really like how it's optional to install, and i never will :D

[u/TheXade]

Will they ever add mods, user reviews, user discussions.. No? Kinda useless if it's faster but still lacking features

[u/slowdr]

But can you load games from a secondary SSD/Drive without the need to reinstall the whole goddamn game, like a caveman?

[u/Sr_Gr]

I am not changing my preferred supermarket just because the new one offers free bread from time to time and just now it decided it was a good idea to clean up the product halls

[u/OkNewspaper6271]

Damn Epic Games finally figured out how to make their launcher load shit faster than a web browser. Nice

[u/Difficult-Badger154]

"Switches tabs ALMOST instantly" - This is so weird like they were trying to reach a word count and the fact it says "almost" is the worrying part in 2026.

[u/ButcherPetesWagon]

Stop trying to make the epic games store happen.

[u/Sethoria34]

Meanwhile: steam having this nailed down for well over a decade
*shrugs*

Fuck off epic. basic ui functionality should of been done and worked on way before now.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l41JWROg3dLv1xZ6M

[u/TNFX98]

After years of that joke of a launcher that took ages to open and then launch anything. That for some reason was incapable of keeping your downloads going smoothly. Now they brag about faster boot time. Yeah sure, I'll believe when I see it

[u/niemertweis]

i dont need faster I need all the features that steam has otherwise no chance

[u/Former_Debt1106]

Devs will have to work twice as hard to beat steam's launcher(if theyre serious about it, that is)

[u/Ho3n3r]

Steam speed is not an issue. It's the last thing I would consider preferring a different launcher for.

What else you got?

[u/SnooOwls6052]

Will it now download from other PCs on my local network, or only from remote servers? Steam does this very well, so only one PC has to take the big hit for the initial download. Epic doesn’t do this. Yes, I know “hacking” this is possible, but that’s just plain stupid.

[u/AbSuRdE____]

Does it have steam input, no? Sorry epic, you already lost before joining the fight.

[u/SunwingArt → u/AbSuRdE____]

Literally my main reason for sticking with steam

[u/Rasann]

They promise much, but will always fall woefully short.

They try so hard, yet their failure will be great.

It’s one of the companies I can’t wait to finally be liquidated, let something else take their place.

You know, implementing services that Steam has been doing for a long time is a better way to use their time, yet they waste what little talent they have left doing this.

Speed means nothing if you can’t offer similar services and reach some sort of parity.

The pathetic keeps getting more pathetic.

[u/AFT3RSHOCK06]

They still don't have Cloud Saves or Achievement support for far too many games that support both features on Steam, GOG, and Xbox PC. When something like that is the case, it's hard to not look at the launcher as half-assed, regardless of any performance updates they do.

[u/edvurdsd]

10 seconds to start steam? lol no

[u/KarateMan749 → u/edvurdsd]

Yea i don't think that is accurate 🤣

[u/PermissionSoggy891]

7 years and we're almost at Steam 2007's level ✌️🥹

[u/henri_sparkle]

Welcome to 2012, Epic.

[u/TheCovarr]

Actually improving their launcher? Good start. Still missing a lot of important social features, but good start.

I'm actually in favor of meaningful competition. Everyone benefits when Epic does something right, and this is a much better use of their money than lawsuits or even more free games that almost nobody will play.

[u/FuzzyAttitude_]

0.36 vs 0.42 seconds 1.2x times faster!!! 🤣 What are they smoking, advertising practically imperceivable difference, Steam takes one extra blink of the human eye to load the library, yep, we should tell them about it 😂

[u/GrenMTG]

If Epic thinks this will steal Steam users, it wont.

[u/robbiekhan]

This isn't going to go the way they think it's going to go.

I also timed Steam startup on my machine and it timed 7 seconds.

[u/kaveman6143]

I'm sorry, but stsrup speed of my game launcher is not a deal breaker for me when my PC never turns off lol

[u/idontlikeredditusers]

epic improving? cool but its still not worth using for the free games

[u/adamosmaki]

Yes thats what i care about a store, how fast it opens not features like user reviews

[u/BarnabusDingleberry]

[u/frisbie147]

Great, Alan wake 2 will launch a bit faster

[u/ztoff27]

Nice. Biggest problem I’ve had with the launcher has always been the speed. It’s currently so slow to navigate and I have to wait a few seconds when clicking on a game in the store.

[u/infinitay_]

They conveniently left out game updating/install speeds. The problem for me with Epic Games' launcher wasn't load times. It has always been updating/installing. Steam goes without hiccups installing a 100GB game or doing a 30GB update. Epic Games took HOURS to update <15GB on Gigabit internet on an SSD.

[u/ccrnch]

will i be able to switch my online status to offline then ?? will i ?

[u/darth_meh]

100% vibe coded

[u/EdliA]

You need features, wtf are they doing. Where is the workshop, forums, community hubs, and your user rating system is too limited. Nobody cares that the app now launches in 1 seconds instead of 1.5 seconds

[u/p1xelwc]

the final nail in the coffin for steam: 1.8x faster startup time. gaben must be shitting himself out of fear of going bankrupt

[u/Vitchkiutz]

Is it just me or everything is starting to run like trash?

Our PC's are more powerful than ever, but loading a few tabs is like playing crisis 3.

[u/WingZeroCoder]

I know it’s fun to dunk on Epic and all, but the fact that they finally acknowledge that quality and features are actually important to a storefront’s success is a positive step forward.

They have a long way to go if they hope to actually challenge Steam. But I’ll still welcome the competition if and when they get there.

[u/_Addi-the-Hun_]

Wow it loads the library in 0.36!? Thats crazy, I hate how long it took steam to load that extra 0.12 second

[u/aaplh]

I love Steam too but I will always welcome competition. I understand reddit has a circlejerk against Epic but I am excited to see if they can pull off a better client

[u/RpiesSPIES → u/aaplh]

The thing with Epic is they've already shown their hand. There is nothing that can salvage their piss reputation. If they somehow magically pulled ahead of Steam, they'd go ahead and enshittify everything they can the INSTANT they think they can get away with it. They already attempted it because they seemed to think Fortnite and a bunch of free games would be enough. Then they keep trying to take Steam down through shells across Europe. Absolute joke of a company and I'll laugh when they go bankrupt.

[u/Zachhandley → u/aaplh]

Idk mate. The problem I have with it is the morality of the people involved. It’ll always eventually go to shit because Tim Sweeney has a heart of ash

[u/bucketman1986 → u/aaplh]

They already said that "programming is hard" and the entire new rollout is vibe coded. Go ahead, put your credit card in the AI machine

[u/K4k4shi → u/aaplh]

I have 500 games in epic that I claimed for free. Would love a good launcher

[u/JoshH79]

Claude putting in overtime I see

[u/apathetic_vaporeon]

And still none of the features anyone actually cares about…

[u/YixoPhoenix]

Yes the 5s startup and 0.1s library load are exactly what epic was missing in comparisonnwith steam. This is groundbreaking Gaben better be scared.

[u/Rakki97]

Yay another thing to not look forward to. Yeah it's fast probably because it doesn't contain as many features. It will get slower over time when they add the features people want. Steam is great for their loyal customers, no launcher will ever beat that. The user review system which is brutally honest (as it should) is alone a feature that i will never trade away. Epic did not have this previously.

[u/aelfwine_widlast]

I already have Heroic, I’m all set.

[u/JonasCar]

profile pictures??