pmcollectorboy: I'm already not impressed. Maybe it's just growing pains because it's a brand new service, but talk about bare bones. There isn't even anyway to wishlist a game. I only made an account to anticipate The Pathless and Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and to get a chance to play a PC version of Journey.
I made one too, overall I don't think it's that's bad.. it does what it needs to do. There are some features it defiantly needs eventually, but I think overall it's more modern looking that both Galaxy and Steam right now. Epic Games seems to be opening it up now as more of a soft launch with it gaining more features and games in 2019. It's not even really open yet to devs (only to those Epic has made a deal with privately). Considering there isn't a lot of games on it yet, a lot of features like a wishlist are unnecessary at this point.
But Epic Games has a lot of resources and developers, so I suspect the Epic Games Store will progress far faster than GOG has with for example Galaxy. I think Valve should be concerned and I think GOG should be down right worried right now. There is already a massive amount of interest from developers who see Epic succeeding as a win for them (even if it means lower payout due to a lower user base in the short term, long term is far more attractive with Epic), and Epic has far more consumer interest and a larger user base (due to Fortnight) than GOG. So I can see sales on the Epic Games Store being far better than what GOG could achieve when compared to Steam.
If developers start to prioritize Epic Games Store (and it already starting to happen with or without financial backing from Epic even at this early stage) it will hurt both Valve and GOG. Valve has the resources and ability to match Epic Games (ie 88/12 spit, with 88% going to dev/pub) if it comes down to that and to really modernize Steam (which it as not done due to lack of competition and due to pure laziness). GOG on the other hand barely does okay now with such a large overhead, and I don't see them being able to make it if they try to match that split if it becomes the new industry standard (which is a strong possibility), at-least not with how GOG currently operates which tends to be outdated.
Epic Games is actually being very smart with this. Users will bitch and moan about games not being on Steam (or even users here about not being on GOG) but the truth of the matter is the majority of users will go where the games are and if new games tend to end up on Epic's Store (due to being more developer friendly) rather than Steam (or GOG) people will switch.
Epic Games is a real threat to Steam, and probably even a bigger threat to GOG where Epic Games will likely take the number 2 spot quite easily, and people are vastly under estimating how serious this just got. 2019 is going to be very interesting.
