Even on one of epics own games, Rocket League, the experience is far better on Steam if you were lucky enough to buy it when it was still listed there. Epic launcher is a piece of hot garbage, and the free game aren't worth it to me. I also wonder if there are other consequences to this pricing model, similar to concerns about gamepads.
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I prefer the high seas. I'm not sucking on some corpo teat just cause the head is one of the "good billionaires".
Paul Rudd is making a new movie?
Somewhere, in the far distance, if you listen closely.. you can hear Conan Obrien having a meltdown.
I hate Epic Games simply on the principle that Tim Sweeney is an asshole. He despises Steam and yet he can't make a better storefront. He sues Google and Apple so he can drive his little exotic cars around the block. Also he hates Linux gamers for whatever reason. No problem man, I don't want to play Shitnite anyway.
I'm petty. I don't like Sweeny because he declared PC was dead back during the Xbox era. Then decided PC wasn't dead and came crawling back bringing his shit house store and console exclusivity bullshit with him.
Imagine having Fortnite money and all you can deliver is the EGS. Yeah free games are cool I guess but it's like the laziest approach regarding actually engineering and developing a solution
I understand people like free stuff but how does it not immediately draw comparison to drug dealers giving out testers for free. When is free shit ever not nefarious?
You're not really dependent on EGS just because of the free games; neither in the sense of drugs nor as in you build an infrastructure on it, like with other software. Let's say you're a student and get Microsoft products for free. You wrote applications for Windows, you create office documents. Later, Microsoft charges for new versions (since you're no longer a student). Now you have the choice: keep using unsupported software which is a security risk; pay up; or migrate everything you have created over the years, which will take a long time. You have become dependent on the vendor.
With games, who gives a damn? It's not like Little Nightmares 2 replaced Little Nightmares. I just keep that version. They're completely different things. No more free games with EGS? Okay, now what? I'll just keep using what I have. There is no lock-in effect. This is all just a promotion for their shop like a free ride voucher for a theme park where they hope you spend money on other stuff as well. Or basically any loss-leader anywhere, just that it's not sold under price, but actually given away for free.
There's a good reason the free games are so far down on their website, they want you to scroll all the way down and look at their stuff so that you maybe buy something. Which is fine by me, I actually even bought something there once (shouldn't have, game was way below expectations, but that's on me).
So yeah they're not giving stuff out because they're good. But it's also not nefarious. Just really lazy and I guess more expensive in the long run.
Its simple advertising. If you have to log in once a week or month or however often, and scroll through their store to click on the free games, a good percentage of those will actually buy something based on what they see. Whether its purchased at egs or somewhere else makes no difference.
Besides all that, having it installed on a device means epic can gather information about you while its running, even if you only open it to collect free games.
Thr bottom line is if it cost epic money to give away free games, they simply wouldnt do it, but as it stands it works out fantastic and a bunch of gamers have no idea they are being tricked at all. Thats more than enough reason to simply avoid egs altogether in my opinion.
You don't need the client to connect the games, I just do it via browser. And you don't need it to launch the games either.
Apart from all this, I think they do lose money on the store, and are subsidizing it with Fortnite money. But I could be wrong.
Fuck I miss just having the game's executable.
Thatβs gog, itch, or epic
Definitely not Epic? No idea where you got that. They downstall like Steam does. GOG and Itch, yes. I got Micro Mages off of itch and its a cool game.
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The worst part of all this is epic used to be good, they made great games, supported modders, released tons of free content, went the extra mile etc. Then they went Microsoft and packed Games for Widows Live, which was so bad it killed the services subscription and the rest is history.....I wish they were.
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Fuck Epic, provide better service or fuck off. Using money to kill competition means they will turn around as soon as they can.
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My most played games lately are Vintage Story and Factorio. Both bought directly from the developers through their own website.
How are you liking vintage story? I've been trying to get into it but struggling lol
Pretty much finished all the content except the most recent update. Probably 1000+ hours, certainly 100s in it. Didn't struggle too much but I have played it back since before seasons and food spoilage was in the game and I played a lot of TFC modded MC before I found VS which some of the mechanics are quite heavily inspired by.
Recently tried playing as a nomad for a bit, kept on the same save but dropped all my stuff and reset my character and went hunter class. Then went on a 100km expedition down through the warmer biomes and grabbed a bunch of seeds, like soybean and rice that can be a bit harder to get in the more temperate biomes. Took those back home with me.
I have plenty of epic free games. And I prefer to install fitgirl version of a game rather than epic's one.
I don't think I've ever installed any of those free games.
G*mers when you don't use their monopolistic service: π‘
I've never had issues with getting refunds through steam. I've never successfully gotten a refund through epic.
you can enjoy your free games if you want, but it isn't a better service and pretending otherwise is delusional.
Which one is bringing exclusives to PC and working against Linux gaming?
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At least they didn't say the Microsoft Store
Epic gives away good free games from to time. While Steam is my primary, I still hop into Epic to play my free copies of Hell Let Loose and Fall Guys from time to time.
Yeah they periodically lose private information, such as adresses, email adresses and credit card information. But that's the price you have to pay to get a "free" game.
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I ended up deleting my Epic account. It was full of free games that I had never played once and had no interest to.
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