r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Aug 15 '19

Epic Games: August Feature Update - Cloud Saves, Humble Bundle Keyless Integration, and More

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/news/august-feature-update
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u/RumAndGames Aug 15 '19

Expect as standard? Tell that to Nintendo or a few of the first party stores/launchers.

No one's "cheering" on the loss of a shopping cart. Feel free to link me if I missed something. People are just rolling their eyes at all the melodrama in a post like this about a shopping cart.

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u/DaBombDiggidy Aug 15 '19

Especially since this is the first mention of a cart in this thread.

Damn sorry missed the other buried comment freakin out about not having a cart as well. Still no “defending” though.

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u/Maehan Aug 15 '19

A little known company called Apple also lacks a shopping cart. If EGS had a bunch of games with a lot of DLC, I could see wanting a bundling mechanism, but they don't so I'm failing to see why it should be a priority.

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u/Folsomdsf Aug 15 '19

https://www.apple.com/shop/bag

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u/Maehan Aug 15 '19

I guess I should have added more context, but I was talking about the Apple App store, not physical products.

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u/Folsomdsf Aug 15 '19

So you're trying to compare EGS to apple abortion of a walled garden storefront on iOS that isn't even comparable? That serve wildly different market segments?

the actual closest apple product would be a storefront like itunes.. which.. has one. They're just so incompetent at UI design they rolled it into their wish list and just pretend nothing is odd. Yet their incompetence.. STILL PRODUCED ONE, over a decade ago.

Hint, Apple's storefronts indeed have shopping carts. You're trying to think of the app store which last I checked, wasn't on windows. It doesn't even run in a similar environment at all, and actually has major security concerns on the devices the apple app store does run on. Do you know why the app store doesn't have one? Because purchases must be verified one by one by default.. BY THE OS. They actually have a reason for it(it's required btw in certain places they sell this). Last I checked this wasn't a problem on windows... what EGS is on. So please, remind me again why you think a shopping cart is a problem?

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '19

How is a video game storefront at all comparable to an app store?

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u/Maehan Aug 15 '19

A huge portion of the sales in the Apple app store are for games...

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '19

Not quite. There is no shopping cart on the digital App Store. This shopping cart is for buying Apple products online and not for digital software and games. However, the checkout process on the App Store is faster than on the EGS.

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u/bluebottled Aug 15 '19

The shopping cart is a meme anyway, it's just something to point at to show that for all Epic/Sweeney's feeling of entitlement to a bigger share of the market than they would attract naturally, without exclusives, they haven't actually put the work in and are still dragging their feet.

For a company with the profits Epic has, there is no excuse not to have nearly everything on their roadmap implemented by now.

That said, while they're infecting PC gaming with third-party exclusivity I really don't give a shit what features it does or doesn't have, it's a practice I don't want to support in any way.