Earlier this week, Tim Sweeney said the audience of EGS reached 108 million people. No matter how you look at it, the Epic Games Store is growing and growing fast. User reviews are slowly becoming less and less defensible as a measure of game quality, and platforms without them a safer bet for launch. Back then, some of prominent developers, including Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail, suggested that storefronts are better off without user reviews.Īll previous Borderlands games getting review-bombed over Take Two’s decision to publish on the Epic Game Store first is ridiculous. Steam itself seems to have finally acknowledged this problem last year when Borderlands 2 got review-bombed over Take Two’s decision to publish Borderlands 3 exclusively on the Epic Game Store. The rationale behind it is that on Steam, users systematically use the system for review-bombing, and that Epic Games wanted to avoid. IGN can exclusively reveal a new Observer: System Redux gameplay video, showing a fascinating glimpse at footage from new quests that have been added to this next-gen update of the 2017 game. Steam, for comparison, offers user reviews and the Metacritic score.Įpic CEO Tim Sweeney, however, has been saying from very early on that the EGS will not use a user reviews system. Ever since the Epic Games Store launched in the end of 2018, the lack or reviews or ratings system has been a major point of criticism. Screenshot of The Outer Worlds page on the Epic Games Store The Outer Worlds, for example, is recommended by 91% professional reviewers, according OpenCritic: If you somehow survived the Nanophage, odds are you. In this future, anything you think, feel, or remember can be used against you in a court of law.

This is different from Metacritic which shows an average score for a game. You are Dan Lazarski, an elite neural detective known as an Observer, and part of a corporate-funded police unit whose purpose is to hack and invade suspects' minds.

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