Just think of it like a flash deal without a timer.
Maybe instead of throwing money at exclusives and trying to buy gamers with $10 deals off they should spend the piles of Fortnite money on comprehensive improvement of their software and store. I could care less about their marketing stuff or freebies when I have to deal with such an inferior experience. Valve has spent years getting to where they are.
Epic’s attempt to take shortcuts and just buy their way into competitiveness aren’t going to work. It they truly want to compete with STEAM it’s going to be a long grind not a quick fix.
Saved me money on a game I was definitely going to buy full price, Borderlands 3, so I really don’t care.
That’s pretty much exactly what they’re doing, and they have a tracking website so you can see what they’re working on and when it’s expected to be done.
They’re pouring resources into upgrading and extending the store because it seems to me they know they have a window in which to most effectively capitalize on their current audience to build a base.
Pretty sure this is what Travis is talking about, referenced in the wiki in the OP;
That’s nice and all, but what kind of store even launches without something as basic as cart functionality?
Presumably a game store where, outside of sales, mostly people only buy one thing at a time, especially if you are launching with a small curated selection of titles?
I mean you can see the logic of that prioritization right, given the difference between this and ordering random stuff or bulk items on Amazon?
And now store redesign is ahead of it in the priority list so that the cart interface can utilize that design?
The Nintendo Switch eShop still doesn’t have a cart! ;)
Look I know Epic is paying you but surely your contract doesn’t state that you have to defend them on something like this.
Cart functionality is very basic and should be in the first wave of features implemented in any store, regardless of what they sell. Even if it only covers 5% of edge cases. And considering how many games launch with day 1 dlcs it’s doubly baffling why they haven’t taken care of this beforehand.
Sorry, but this defense doesn’t pass the “smell test” - launching a store without a cart functionality is just pants on head retarded. Not fatal to the entire enterprise, and yes I know they’ll get to it one day, but very stupid.
Amazon doesn’t have cart functionality for digital goods like Books. Let’s stop pretending that is some kind of litmus test for a digital store’s right to exist.
Stop pretending others are arguing about Epic’s right to exist, rather than merely stating some of Epic’s practices are stupid.
Borderlands 3 preorder has been pulled from the Epic Game Store.
Apparently, Randy Pitchford also deleted his Tweet(s) promoting the sale.
Impressive sale, at this point what games are still available? :D
Saw this over on ResetERA, apparently its been deleted from Pitchford’s timeline now.
Are they? The store launched six months ago and was incredibly bare-bones. At the time there was all that talk about how Epic moves so quickly with both Fortnite and UE4, and the same would be the case for the store. In that six months they’ve shipped half-assed implementations of 2-3 features.
All software projects are harder than people on the outside think. There’s always a good reason for why the simple sounding change is actually hellishly complex. But this is a fresh project with exceptionally clear requirements that they would have known from the start. There’s no surprises and no land-mines hidden in legacy systems, and they’re still not managing to execute. To the outside it does not look like they’re “pouring resouces” into this.
I mean, it’s always possible that their initial try was so fucked up that they’re desperately trying to rewrite everything rather than incrementally improving the system. But then that suggests gross incompetence, which doesn’t sound any better than under-resourcing.
This is pretty much what I am thinking. Entirely new store from the bottom up.
If the Uplay integration problems aren’t fixed by the end of the sale I would imagine that was Ubisoft’s ‘excuse’ to not participate in the sale.
He said books not all digital goods. If you click on a Kindle book you are only given an option to buy with 1 click, not to actually add to a cart. There is no way I can see to add more than one kindle book to a shopping cart before deciding to purchase.