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Re:Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix by cloakandswagger on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:27PM (#19803652)
What do users really need from a platform beyond basic social features and the ability to, you know, launch the game?

I've used Steam chat and voice comms all of about 3 times. Discord is better.

Profile pages and achievements? Couldn't care less.

Streaming? There's Twitch for that.

What I really care about from a platform are the games that are available for it. Valve waved the white flag on that a while ago when they abandoned first party game development.

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Re:Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix by anonymousab on Thursday May 02, 2019 @12:32AM (#19804762)
Given that we're talking about a store, a shopping cart is generally a good feature. Wish lists / favorites are a useful QoL feature as well. There's a bunch of things like that where it's hard to believe the Epic games store is being pushed so hard without them.
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