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Blizzard's former Battle.net lead is moving his expertise over to the Epic Games Store to 'elevate player, creator, and developer experiences'

Talk to the joneses fortnite.

What would it take to make you use Epic's launcher? Free games? Even better revenue for devs? Or perhaps an experience that doesn't make you want to pull your hair out? Well, Epic's already tried the first two, so now it's onto the third as it hires a new VP to oversee and hopefully fix the storefront's struggles.

Martin Keely is the new Epic Games Store VP and GM (via GamesRadar), replacing Steve Allison who left the company earlier this month to join Saber Interactive. Keely's got seven years of experience under his belt with his last role being the SVP overseeing Activision Blizzard's Battle.net launcher—the only launcher other than Steam that doesn't actively piss me off. Which is why I'm actually quite interested to see what Keely does with Epic's launcher.

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