The Epic Game Store should soon suck a bit less, with speedier load times and actual social features set for the summer

Two seconds saved is 2 seconds saved

Other opinions astir the storefront aside, the Epic Games Store launcher, connected an experiential level, sucks. I'm not conscionable being needlessly mean here, due to the fact that this is the nonstop connection Epic Games Store vice president and wide manager Steven Allison utilized successful a caller interrogation astir the launcher, wherever helium besides elaborate what you tin expect from it implicit the people of the remainder of the year.

"We person a batch of things we request to fix," Allison told sibling tract Eurogamer, going connected to accidental that the institution has "needed to hole them for years. We've been truly focused connected developer tooling and each the things we bash there. But past year, we yet started to constituent much of our resources towards subordinate acquisition stuff, each the things that our players person needed, wanted, and each critics rightfully instrumentality america to task on. We got a batch of worldly retired the doorway past year, and this twelvemonth is going to beryllium astir apt the champion twelvemonth for that worldly connected the 'big rocks'. And the large rocks are: the launcher sucks. Let's telephone it what it is. It's truly slow."

Apparently enactment connected the architecture of the launcher started successful November 2025, with velocity improvements acceptable to get for users astir May oregon June this year. "It should commencement to consciousness good, beryllium faster and radical beryllium like, 'Holy shit. It doesn't suck truthful much.' And that volition beryllium a triumph for us," Allison said.

It's not conscionable a speedy store that Epic are moving on. Right now, it has zero existent societal features, a stark opposition to Steam's model wherever each crippled comes with its ain assemblage hub and treatment pages. According to Allison, Epic are readying to adhd what they telephone "community spaces" to the store with things similar avatars, subordinate profiles, backstage messaging to cross-platform substance chat, and dependable chat, each of which should besides beryllium coming astir May.

At immoderate constituent successful 2026, Epic volition besides beryllium investigating "a benignant of forum-type experience," though details beyond that are scant. Probably a harmless stake to accidental it'll conscionable beryllium a mentation of Steam's treatment pages, but I accidental we'll find retired aboriginal this year!