PollsĪside from ongoing store improvements, Epic Games also released an update today to its Online Services platform that improves cross-play integration support for game developers.
Players could also be presented with a multiple choice poll asking 'How challenging are the bosses in this game?'. Players might be asked to respond 'Yes' or 'No' to 'Is this game good to play with a group?'. Here are a couple of examples Epic provided regarding polls: With enough response data, Epic's systems will generate tags for products for easy filtering by available content and to improve discoverability. At random, and separate from ratings, players will be asked to rate how their play sessions went with a poll containing responses for various systems. Completely free, no strings attached (except the one tied to Epic's storefront).
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The new system sits on store pages alongside the already available critic ratings powered by OpenCritic. User ratings for products provide developer feedback and information for prospective customers before they make a purchase to easily read the state of a game. Alongside it there is a new Polls system too. And now, it's a community rating system for games that's coming in, though it's a little different from how other platforms do it. Recent major feature implementations include a shopping cart and achievements. The Epic Games Store has slowly been gaining highly requested features over the years since its first inception four years ago.