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Epic Games Store quietly delays most features set for July

Epic Games Store's Trello board roadmap recently had some target dates changed from July to August, which makes it the second delay.

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Jimboms2157d ago

They've done a couple of shady things lately, not very impressed.

chrono12052157d ago

Not shocked, anti consumer after all.

harmny2157d ago

when a game gets delayed its an anti consumer practice too?

Profchaos2157d ago

I'm sure all the free games are anti consumer also /s

SegaGamer2157d ago

Just as many people predicted.

I have said it before, but why would something like this take any time at all? They could easily hire a few people and get this done in a week. If they have all of that money to pay for timed exclusives, then they could easily afford to pay a bunch of people a wage to implement basic features.

TK-662157d ago

We're now over 6 months since it's launch and the client is still barebones so I have no idea what the defence is going to be now. At this there's no reason to use EGS for anything more than the free games compared to Steam.

nyu12157d ago

I mean, obviously they are. Clearly whatever features are in the works are just taking longer than they thought for their team, for whatever reason.

Otherwise we're in this really weird scenario where Epic is trying to hurt itself for no reason at all, which makes no sense to me. If the bottleneck right now was hiring a few more people, why wouldn't they do it ?

2pacalypsenow2157d ago

They’re too busy taking games away from steam to improve their own store.

Pos store

amazingmax72157d ago

Epic released the client in Dec 2018?
They should of at least have had all the features, but nah, they wanted to capitalize on the success of Fortnite so they released a bare-bones client, then they can brag about the number of people using it (which will be the amount of players who are playing Fortnite - PC).

Instead of concentrating on the clients features, they instead put all their efforts into gaining exclusives for the store so they can further brag about their numbers/statistics.

In this day and age, they should of had at least all/or most of the features out. IMO they wouldn't of gotten so much slack if they did this. There priorities are in the wrong place, sure they have different teams working on different parts, but you would assume they would concentrate on the client.

Seafort2156d ago

Epic's priorities are to the developers and publishers not the customers so they have no reason to make their store any better for customers.

As long as the developers are happy they don't care. This is why they are spending so much money on exclusives and nothing on their store features.

It is completely backwards to every other successful digital PC store. They will fail and be unable to attain their customer base with their poor attitude towards everyone that shopping on their store.

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darthv721d 18h ago

As someone who has been gaming nearly as long as gaming has been around (since the early 70's), you'd think I'd be against this. Having grown up with all the major platforms and the whole notion of physical ownership... but I'm not. i embrace this as it is a revolutionary convenience. And one i know for a fact many (especially here) have not even given the fair chance to use. I get it... i was there too. But now i have a new outlook on it. It really is a hell of an option if you just want to play with no commitments. By no means am i saying this should replace traditional gaming, its an option. And one that people should look at optimistically as a way to compliment traditional gaming. There is room for both to thrive.

Zerobalance1d 3h ago

I tend to use streaming on new games in GamePass. To see if I like the game. If I do, I'll download it for a better experience. It's so convenient & useful.

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