Announcing the Epic Games Store

Fantastic news, long hoped for.

I think the following features are key:

- Unobtrusive DRM

- Anticheat

- Player profile

- Item store/marketplace

- Cloud save

- Basic matchmaking for multiplayer (linked to profile)

- Mod workshop

- Asset bundle support for patching

- DLC support

- Works in China

- Complete UI support include Title name support for multiple languages

- Limiting the number of games being launched to about 1-5 per day, and showing all of them somewhere

The last point is particularly critical. We want to absolutely avoid the situation that Steam is in: flooded by low-quality launches that undermine the basis of the store. If there is an upfront listing fee to get into the curation queue, it should be $2000+, partially recouped (eg. $1000 recouped) if the curation attempt fails, or the game sells beyond a certain threshold.