I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of money on EGS… it’s embarrassing because it’s the first time I’ve spent money on a free game. All the games I own on there were free. Which is great, because a few of them I was thinking about getting on sale on steam, but they were the weekly free game on EGS.
So yeah, they got my money, but not for the games…
Eh, I won’t even install egs for free games
Yeah i don’t get that hoarder mentality either. If there is a game i want i can buy it wherever i feel ethically appropriate. I don’t even play all of the games i already own, i dont need a load of more games i wont be touching.
Two of the best games I’ve ever played, I got for free on Epic: Titanfall 2 and Control
Oh, man, those are both FANTASTIC, I’m really glad you got to play them. Control introduced me to the entire “weird fiction” genre and now I’m hooked. And Titanfall 2 is just a masterpiece of storytelling and game design. Just as you think you’re getting bored with a mechanic they throw in something new.
It’s really sad that Titanfall didn’t get a sequel. I mean, sure, they can make one in the future, but of course by then the magic in the studio will be gone, or is already gone now.
I mean what did they expect? With all those free games on a set frequency they basically trained their users that this is what Epic is for. That was their entire marketing. I don’t know a single person IRL who has an Epic account and has actually bought a game there.
I have so many free games from epic, but absolutely nothing is interesting to me.
Could you next time please just copy the text and pic, instead of creating a screenshot of a screenshot?
This is dumb.
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I wish GOG Galaxy and Playnite were good launchers. I don’t like Epic and I don’t like the stranglehold Steam has on the market. Basically I want a launcher where I can see all of my games, but I also want to be able to open as many stores as I want, and then be able to compare prices and then buy from each of those stores within the same launcher.
So basically isthereanydeal.com that’s also a launcher? I suppose I wouldn’t be mad at it
What’s wrong with steam? Tons of reasonably priced games with good accessibility and versatility.
Monopolies tend to be bad. The more my game library is on steam, the more fucked I am if my country decides to ban Steam for some reason or another, or the US decides to fuck everyone else over.
They can be bad and that absolutely could happen, but I think steam is a rare example of a customer benefiting monopoly right now. Monopolies make the market less efficient and right now the most efficient market for computer games is enshitification galore, but valve is sitting in the way of that, manipulating the market and making games be less economically productive (by forcing them to be more pleasant for customers).
If we had 20 equally viable launchers/stores, it’d be a race to the bottom on price, which would force them all to enshittify or die
Right now
I get free Epic games from Prime Gaming, but I refuse to redeem them on principle. You couldn’t pay me to use Epic, or even give them an inkling that I support them.
I considered it briefly when they launched, and then they pulled the bullshit of game exclusivity on PC, which is why I left consoles behind. Because of that, I’ll never purchase from them.
“Marginally profitable.” Profit is profit, and their end goal of giving people a library to drive sales has worked.
Competition is good, for end consumers, but not a chance I’m going to be using EGS. They had no interest in making things better for consumers, especially with trying to create exclusivity in PC gaming.
I use it for Alan wake and I use gog for cyberpunk because I got a better price for it on gog.
Also I still have to run everything through steam because neither of those have controller support that actually works.
That’s one of the biggest issues I have. They don’t even have basic functions like controller support.
Ridiculous.
I wouldn’t mind more competition but there’s literally no reason to use egs over valve.
An example is instead of having a better review system than steam’s basic good or bad they could of had a good, maybe, bad then had separate reviews for reviewing specific patches or something. But no the CEO said reviews are bad for devs LOL.
On top of that he’s been vocal about being anti Linux and is full of garbage hot takes. And it really says a lot when he lays off staff that are part for Fortnite’s $1.1 billion made
Yeah, competition is great but they aren’t competing lol. Gog competes with Steam with no DRM. EGS tried to do it by getting exclusives onto their platform, which is just anti-consumer. I’ll never touch their store because of that, even for free shit. I’d rather pay for games than even give them a single datapoint to report to their investors.
Reminder: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has defended child pornography, saying that stopping it is “gatekeeping”.
ITT: pedo defenders
Man, you really need to have something to back it up when you say shit like this; it’s just good practice. This is the quote.
Few will click through, so I’ll copy the part where he actually talked about child pornography below. First of all, both times the term “gatekeeping” was used in that link were specifically connected to “censoring political opponents”. He was not talking about pornography. He was talking about censorship.
Bringing up pornography is always the bludgeon of anti-free-speech people. If I say, “People should have the freedom to express themselves,” some idiot will inevitably say, “This evil person said that everybody should be allowed to make child porn!” This sort of rhetoric is the death of thinking.
Asked if he realised “what [he was] defending” - which is essentially Grok being used to generate non-consensual pornographic or sexually explicit images of women and girls and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) - Sweeney said: “I defend open platforms, free speech, and consistent application of the rule of law. The bad stuff people do with AI, I do not defend, but I staunchly oppose the wrongdoing of a few from being used as a pretense to undermine the freedoms of all”
When challenged and given examples of Grok generating “CSAM content and doxxing people’s IP address”, he replied: "1) That is bad. 2) Every significant AI has instances of this. 3) Every significant AI company makes their best efforts to stop it. 4) All are imperfect.
Every significant AI company makes their best efforts to stop it.
Someone should have told him that Elon “stopped” it by trying to make money from it.
The users have been telling them exactly what they want from the store (social features) from day ONE. Yet, here we are.
Is this really what most people want? I don’t even know what social features steam has. I just want a functional storefront that doesn’t fight me at every step. I stopped grabbing the free games on windows because the constant capchas were horrible. I’m on linux now, and it’s a little better using herioc but I still don’t even bother to look as there’s issues there too, mainly the store doesn’t scale and I’m on my TV at 200% so the store text is really tiny.
I think it’s a huge aspect. Reviews, guides, discussions, bug reports all falls under the “social” category.
E: oh and a friend’s list where you can quickly join up via “game invites”, and game leaderboards which have friend rankings… Steam workshop… Those are also big social features
It’s interesting that when a company fires a bunch of employees just to increase quarterly profit, the employees no longer feel any duty to keep the company secrets. Which hurts company profits even more.
Good.
Is this a secret though?
No, it’s one of those things everyone assumes or guesses. When it’s confirmed by someone by name that has insider knowledge, the theory carries a lot more weight. Enough to alter stock prices, if it’s damning enough. Or in this case further hurt public perception, which hurts revenue.
how the fuck do you launch a store without a “shopping cart” feature did 20 business fucks pay themselves to suck each other off whilst one intern wrote the store?
