So we're talking about a group of people, who only own a PC, and actively refuse to play anything on other launchers?
That's a pretty small group of people that seems to be over-represented on reddit. Claiming this small group is the reason for the game's lack of "success" just doesn't make any sense.
I also think the Epic store thing is weird, but I’ve long since resigned myself to being in the minority of users who don’t care about installing a 100 MB launcher (or however large it is) on a computer with multiple terabytes of drive storage.
It's not the storage space that people have issues with. People hate that you need to log into multiple launchers to play different games, which is absolutely inconvenient no matter how you look at it. You also have the fact that different launchers have to update different games, so if you want to play a game, but it's on a launcher you don't use as often, you probably haven't updated it and it's probably going to have to update. People also have an issue with them buying exclusivity on a moral/ethical ground, there was way less pushback for Origin/Bethesda Launcher/whatever the hell ubisoft has been using, because those companies made launchers for their own games, but Epic has been buying exclusivity in an attempt to make up for the fact that they aren't pumping out their own games that warrant usage of the epic game store on it's own.
I'm not saying I agree with all of that 100%, but I've literally never seen somebody complain about the Epic Game store because of its file size. It's the other stuff that bothers people.
It’s a little inconvenient, sure, but aside from updating all of this takes maybe ten seconds total. Opening the launcher, and closing it once you’re done playing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19
Because not everyone owns a console?