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[–] marighost@piefed.social 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 18 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] msage@programming.dev 49 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Collecting

free

games

creates

active

accounts.

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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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck I miss just having the game's executable.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

That’s gog, itch, or epic

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

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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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

At least they didn't say the Microsoft Store

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

she is a repacker of pirated games.

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[–] greatwhitepapertiger@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I ended up deleting my Epic account. It was full of free games that I had never played once and had no interest to.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] greatwhitepapertiger@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Spaniard@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I am gaming happily on Linux though. Using both Epic and Steam. πŸ‘

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

spend a bit of money rather than time to set up Epic

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

  1. Install Heroic
  2. Log in to Epic

I dunno man. Not sure I would re-buy everything if I were you, but it's fine. I can relate to having everything in one place, for sure!

[–] lmdnw@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago

Don't have yo put in credit card info for the free games iirc

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago

Did them a favor.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

G*mers when you don't use their monopolistic service: 😑

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Which one is bringing exclusives to PC and working against Linux gaming?

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[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Referring to Epic I presume?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

ah yes the famous monopoly, the epic game store

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My most played games lately are Vintage Story and Factorio. Both bought directly from the developers through their own website.

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itch.io

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What, no love for Prime Games (or whatever it's called now)?

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Paul Rudd is making a new movie?

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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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