Epic’s plans for their big store revamp over the next year sound like they’ll at long last meet the bare minimum
The Epic Games Store, operational for eight years, continues to lack fundamental features compared to competitors, despite its role as a major digital distribution platform for PC gaming. While the store periodically offers free games to users, it remains significantly limited in basic functionality.
Epic Games presented a 12-month roadmap addressing these deficiencies, with details shared via photos on the EpicGamesPC subreddit. The planned improvements include patch notes—a basic feature conspicuously absent since the platform’s launch. This addition, along with other unspecified enhancements, reflects Epic’s acknowledgment of the store’s ongoing shortcomings.
However, industry observers characterize these improvements as meeting bare minimum standards rather than representing meaningful innovation or competitive advantage. After nearly a decade of operation, such foundational features should have been available from inception. The roadmap demonstrates Epic’s attempt to modernize the storefront and enhance competitiveness in the digital PC gaming marketplace, though the improvements are widely viewed as overdue baseline additions rather than ambitious advancements.