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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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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.
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
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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At least they didn't say the Microsoft Store
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.
I ended up deleting my Epic account. It was full of free games that I had never played once and had no interest to.
I spent ages collecting the free games. Then the Steam Deck came along and I changed my PC to Linux. Then I repurchased all the games I wanted to play on Steam anyway. Then I don't have to set up Epic or worry about save game sync.
Same except the push for me was in my "degoogling" process. Epic wouldn't accept an email address from Proton. They said I needed a "legitimate email" and then locked my account till I provided one. That was the push I needed to dump them completely. Truly, I haven't even thought about missing it since leaving.
My epic account uses disroot email, 0 issues. My wife has a mailo email.
I don't understand why they wouldn't accept it. Haven't had that issue anywhere else. Even went back and forth with customer service through my old email and over telephone and got nowhere.
I am gaming happily on Linux though. Using both Epic and Steam. π
I know Epic can be set up. I just found it easier to spend a bit of money rather than time to set up Epic. I've distro hopped a bunch of times and needed to reinstall Steam OS on my Deck once. It's just more convenient to get all my games on Steam.
Heroic games is the easy way to do Epic Games Store. I actually prefer it to Steam for my library management. Somewhere along the line Steam became a bit of a resource hog.
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.
Don't have yo put in credit card info for the free games iirc
I could see that as being an annoyance if I had given them any payment information. I was already caught up in a major data leak that exposed my SSN and address over a decade ago, so my shit is out there and all I can do is monitor at this point anyways.
I can get the same games from the high seas for the same price and not provide Epic with an active account with which to entice investors.
Did them a favor.
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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Referring to Epic I presume?
ah yes the famous monopoly, the epic game store
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My most played games lately are Vintage Story and Factorio. Both bought directly from the developers through their own website.
What, no love for Prime Games (or whatever it's called now)?
No love for Amazon
I have 0 love for Amazon, but...it's better than going to Walmart
And my GOG account has 150 free games in it from them sooooooo π
I only ever shop on Epic if the discount is too large to ignore, which happens very infrequently.
I've collected so many free games I will never touch though.
I have been doing it for years now. Every thursday. I think im somewhere near 300 games now? Games I've purchased from them myself is 2, lol. The amount of free games I've played is like 5 and normally very briefly. I don't think the model is working.
Not even created an account. It doesn't run natively on Linux and I just don't care to even bother running it
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