Borderlands CEO says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford discusses his thoughts about the Epic Games Store and the years-old exclusivity deal for Borderlands 3 to skip Steam on PC.

I’m genuinely shocked how much Epic poured into the store and it still lacks so much basic features. Sorting games is still extremely barebones, store is filled with NFT/crypto garbage, the store still looks like a college student’s first front-end project, and last time I used the launcher to pick up free games (last year), it was still slow as hell. What were they doing in the past 5 years aside from dropping millions on exclusivity deals?

Epic is going to have to prioritize the store and try some new initiatives while also doubling down on earning pivotal exclusives if it is going to have a chance. I also hope other viable competitors arrive.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Please tell me more about this Junk Store, I’d been using Heroic for Epic games but it’s been a bit dodgy recently

    • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      16 days ago

      Sure, it’s a plugin through Decky. It allows you to log in to Epic and it displays your library in its separate window, allowing you to install them as Non-Steam Games. It’s quite easy

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I’ve not used Decky before, it always seemed like one of those things that needed constant tinkering. Is it still a bit bleeding edge or has it reached the “it just works” stage yet?

        • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          16 days ago

          Decky itself is fine, some plugins are buggy. If you install it and Junk-Store, you should be fine with no problems. I run like a dozen plugins and I only ever had problems with the UI customization ones: css, and animation changer. I uninstalled those and it’s all passive now.

          I’ve only had problems with one game from Epic. The rest worked just fine with no tweaks

          • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
            2·
            16 days ago

            Cheers, I’ll give it a go if Heroic is still not working the next time I try to use it