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i have 45 games on epic
i have paid for none of them
I never understood all the G*mer pants-shitting about Epic. It’s not like console exclusivity where you have to buy a $500 system to play them, you literally just install a free thing
Or if you just mean taking advantage of all the freebies and pirating everything else then yeah, that’s cool
supposedly they had some kind of invasive shit in their platform which spied on you or something? i dunno i already have that its called a cell phone
mostly find it annoying that i need like 5 game clients to download shit
is there any sort of open source app that just merges it all together
The most annoying thing to me is the handful of indie games I’ve funded that have said they will launch DRM free on multiple platforms, only to revise that and be Epic store exclusive on launch. I know its hardly the end of the world, especially since they took refunds from people who didn’t fund it with that in mind, but its still very aggravating, especially since that kind of thing has happened to me a few times now.
Just makes me not want to use their platform at all, especially at a time when I’m trying to use as few game platforms as I can, just to keep my computer uncluttered. I miss the days when all games were just an .exe, and you didn’t need to log into an account and drink your verification can to play, and I still try to go out of my way to buy games that allow you to run them like that when I can.
I can also just wait out the exclusivity period and play other stuff in the meantime. I don’t have super strong feelings about Epic, but my issue is that they’re using money to bully their way into a market that doesn’t need or want another platform. There’s no value-add. They’re not trying to get me onboard by offering me something, they’re trying to force my hand by holding third-party titles hostage with licensing agreements. I’d rather not play along.
I have paid for exactly one out of 168, and playing Outer Wilds a year early was worth every cent
I think their business model for these giveaways is that they make more overall from people buying DLC/expansions. However, if the base game sucks, I’m too wizened to be fooled into thinking a glorified mod will save it.
my take on the business model is they want to take a market share so they are trying to make you have a library in their platform so maybe you don’t feel so bad about buying something because you have a lot of games in there because a lot of attachment to steam is kinda of sunken cost like i have so many games in there that i will always install it and i feel like that is what they are trying to achieve and they have a lot of money to throw at this
yeah, like, microsoft has also been trying to use the game pass on pc to push their awful gaming store and people hated origin and uplay because you had to instal a new thing for no reason, like no advantage to you whatsoever, so the approach now seems to be give them a good a reason like the game pass is a good deal like on a sheer ammount games for your buck so people might want to use it and then they can try to push their store, like steam has a really strong position still so it is hard to start a new store and try to compete
