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Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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"For the next 24 hours, pay for Fallout with your dignity!"
I don't get it. What's wrong with a free game from Epic?
An important detail regarding exclusivity. What made a ton of people pissed off (and justifiably so, in my opinion) is that they bought exclusivity for games that were kickstarted which resulted in the option for Steam keys being removed for these games.
Heard this had even killed projects
Please stop with this horseshit. Valve and GOG had both done third-party exclusives before EGS was even a thing. Epic absolutely in no way "brought [them] to PC gaming for the first time.
Yes, they did make them a pillar in their strategy to try to enter a marketplace that was dominated by an 800-pound gorilla - which is a perfectly legitimate approach to take - which neither of the other two did, but they 100% categorically did NOT bring the practice to PC first.
Wow, you're just full of misinformation on this post. They have constantly been updating their store since day one. No, it's not on parity with Steam (and it likely never will be), but to just flat out say that they haven't spent anything on improving it when there has been a steady stream of improvements over the years is ignorant at best and actively disingenuous at worst.
Which games did valve pay to be exclusive to steam?
For real, Steam literally took off because they made HL2 exclusive to it. It doesn't matter that it's a first party game, the effect and intent was identical. They could've made it generally available but chose not to. They forced people to use their proprietary product to install a game.
It's crazy how many people shill for valve on Reddit and lemmy when they've already done most of the shit Epic gets accused of.
It's just terminally online redditors bringing their anti-Epic circlejerk here. There's nothing wrong with collecting free games from the EGS.
You can use legendary worth heroic as a user interface (both open source projects) to download and play games you own on epic, no need to install their software.
Or you can take it for free and just not spend money on EGS? It's not like taking it would be supporting them.
But it does. You're still giving them your data, which they can use for all manner of things. If that's something you don't care about, then more power to you - enjoy your free game.
Literally the only data they can get is basic hardware info and your e-mail address which is easy to fake. You can even use an alternate launcher like Heroic and give them basically nothing. The point isn't to "take people's data", they give away games to try to generate interest in EGS and get people to download it and spend money on the store. You lose nothing by redeeming the game.
They collect and use quite a bit more than that, it's in their privacy policy:
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/privacypolicy
Sure, their primary focus is most likely generating interest and usage of their platform, but they'll also use analytical and statistical information to influence their business decisions.
On a personal note, I made the decision as a consumer to not interact with them as much as possible. Even when I did have an account to collect free games years ago, the only thing I actually played was a Satisfactory alpha/beta event. I have more than enough games to play, so I am not concerned with collecting their free games.
This is literally a bog standard privacy policy. Any closed source website or app you use will also track analytics and usage, and basic hardware info like I mentioned. You might as well go on a crusade against Steam for doing the same thing. You and people like you making these comments act like Epic, specifically, is bad for privacy as if nobody else has trackers. You're misleading people.
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I am not against Epic because of their privacy policy. I don't like Epic because of their business practices and owners, and don't want to give them anything, even if it's just a bogus email address and a few clicks or whatnot. And no, I never tried to imply other companies don't do the same thing.
Here's the bottom line, as far as I'm concerned:
I don't like Epic, and want nothing to do with them. If others want to interact with them, even if it's just for the free games, that's their decision to make.
Oh no, now they know the one-off email address I used for my Epic account!