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Epic chose not to try and compete with Steam on that front

Forget competing, they lack even the basics.

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What do you consider basic that it’s still missing? To be honest I’ve felt content with it as a game launcher for a while now, but I admittedly don’t use it that often either.

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Linux support.

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I kinda understand it not being a priority; even if they dedicated the resources to both create and adequately maintain Linux support, I imagine very few of the games on the platform have native support anyway. Sure, many would work (to varying degrees) with the various bags of tricks available, but it’s still an extra step of compatibility that’s sort of beyond their immediate control.

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For me it’s the inability to set my status to “invisible”.

It’s not that I don’t want to game with people, but sometimes I want to practice alone without being bombarded by invites.

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Fair enough! I barely use its social side since most of the games I’ve played on there are singleplayer titles - honestly didn’t even know that wasn’t there yet!

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Remote play together, local network streaming, etc.

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I guess our opinions differ, because I don’t consider either of those to be “basics”. They’re nice features for e.g., Steam to have, sure, but they’re not “game launcher 101” imo.

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