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.

  • smegEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    What has community got to do with achievements? My Steam profile is entirely private, the achievements are for me.

    • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      My profile is also not public but it’s visible to friends. Also I can make it public when I want.

      There are also achievement statistics.

      • smegEnglish
        23·
        3 months ago

        Fair, but my point is that plenty of people care about achievements without any community integration

        • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Well did it help Epic when they added achievements? Guess not much. Either they never marketed this feature enough or most spending users never cared about achievements on Epic.