Epic Games Store Adds Wishlist Feature
Epic Games have finally added wishlist feature to Epic Games Store to help you keep track of your favorite games.
When debuted back in December 2018, Epic Games Store had launched a digital distribution outlet for PC platform that was bare-bones and had missing many common features that are essential for online shopping experience.
People have been complaining to Epic Games about many issues and missing aspects from start. Following feedback from their users, Epic Store has finally added one of the most-requested features "Wishlist" to their store.
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People usually follow their favorite games online and keep track of them to purchase them at some point. This feature also notifies them when a title will get released or if there is an ongoing sale that they've waiting for a long time.
Games in wishlists can be filtered through "smart search", so certain titles are easy to find when you are looking to buy them. All it takes for a user to click on heart icon next to purchase button in a product page for a game to add to wishlist.
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Wishlist has been a very important feature for rival storefront Steam and developers greatly rely on it to get featured on homepage. Whenever a game gets wishlisted by alarge number of players, Valve starts promoting them heavily.
In future, Epic Games plans to send emails to users to let them know when their wishlisted titles becomes available for pre-order, purchase, or is discounted, features that anyone can generally expect from an established online store.
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Steam already has these features in place for a long time and Epic Store is simply trying to catch up to market competition. Reaching your customers via email is very important marketing strategy to remind customers to buy games.
Epic Games agrees that their store is far from complete as it's a work in progress and there are a lot to add in future. Epic Games Store asks for user feedback on their social channels and is currently working on more improvements.
When debuted back in December 2018, Epic Games Store had launched a digital distribution outlet for PC platform that was bare-bones and had missing many common features that are essential for online shopping experience.
People have been complaining to Epic Games about many issues and missing aspects from start. Following feedback from their users, Epic Store has finally added one of the most-requested features "Wishlist" to their store.
Epic Games Store Adds Wishlist Feature |
RELATED: Death Stranding PC Release Date, Half-Life Crossover
People usually follow their favorite games online and keep track of them to purchase them at some point. This feature also notifies them when a title will get released or if there is an ongoing sale that they've waiting for a long time.
Games in wishlists can be filtered through "smart search", so certain titles are easy to find when you are looking to buy them. All it takes for a user to click on heart icon next to purchase button in a product page for a game to add to wishlist.
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Wishlist has been a very important feature for rival storefront Steam and developers greatly rely on it to get featured on homepage. Whenever a game gets wishlisted by alarge number of players, Valve starts promoting them heavily.
In future, Epic Games plans to send emails to users to let them know when their wishlisted titles becomes available for pre-order, purchase, or is discounted, features that anyone can generally expect from an established online store.
How To Wishlist Games? |
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Steam already has these features in place for a long time and Epic Store is simply trying to catch up to market competition. Reaching your customers via email is very important marketing strategy to remind customers to buy games.
Epic Games agrees that their store is far from complete as it's a work in progress and there are a lot to add in future. Epic Games Store asks for user feedback on their social channels and is currently working on more improvements.