Epic says 'the launcher sucks' and pledges to rebuild its launcher

Epic has acknowledged that its Epic Games Store launcher has performance and usability problems. EGS vice president and general manager Steven Allison told Eurogamer 'the launcher sucks. Let's call it what it is. It's really slow.'

Allison said the developer team is 'pulling the guts out, putting new guts in' to make the client faster and more responsive, and that work will include adding community spaces to the storefront.

The article notes that Tim Sweeney described the launcher as 'clunky' last year and that the store has been available since 2018; it says the client has not been good during its run.

The author expresses scepticism that annual acknowledgements will be sufficient and says it would be preferable for the launcher simply to stop being bad.

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