Epic knows its game store social features ‘suck,’ but it wants to fix that

/ Epic Games’ Steve Allison wants to bring social features like what you can use in Fortnite to the Epic Games Store.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge

Epic’s game store is finally on mobile. Next up, the company plans to add features that make people want to use it — on both mobile and PC.

A key thing Epic Games wants to introduce is what store boss Steve Allison calls a “social framework” — think the types of social and chat features you see on

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