Wow, what a surprise. Next up they will discover nobody even plays those free claimed games or even buy them on Steam if they’re good
i gave my epic games account with the free games i claimed to a friend because i wasnt playing any of them
Could you next time please just copy the text and pic, instead of creating a screenshot of a screenshot?
This is dumb.
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 think I bought Hades there when the discount was more than on steam. One game in years of collecting free ones.
Maybe they were thinking that people would see cool stuff every time they clicked over to get the free games, but they’re lacking most of the stuff steam has so no one wants to spend any time in the epic environment
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
Apparently Playnite has a ITAD plugin you can use, but it’s limited to your wishlist, and doesn’t have an all-in-one browser, and it doesn’t look like it’s very well maintained.
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
Build one!
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.
EGS isn’t competing with Steam because Timmy is on record saying his customers are devs and publishers. The rest of us are just pay piggies who should be happy to give money to him.
Eh, I won’t even install egs for free games
I’ve used them for a bit, but literally never installed their launcher. Heroic saved me from those claims going to waste.
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
The only reason I collect theses games I’ll never play is because epic pays the devs for every free game is redeemed.
if you don’t collect the free games then it’s like youre losing the money you would have spent! (/s)
Not a lot of people can “buy it” because most people are in regions without an international payment platform support.
What you’re feeling smug against is literally a record on the db.
Of all the things to be “ethically appropriate” about you chose people getting free games?
I don’t feel smug about it, what the fuck. Use epic if you want, i’m just saying i already cant keep up with the games i actually want to play. No need for me to grab any free ones on a platform i dislike. “Ethically appropriate” means literally just that, get your games where you feel comfortable.
I just pick them up through the web, no need to install anything.
To install and play, heroic.What is this Heroic?
A games launcher that allows you to log into an Epic account. Supports GOG too.
It mainly exists to make playing on Linux easier but I think it’s available for Windows.
That is what Heroic is for.
I dont even want the free games, they can keep their grifty service.
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.
I think valve does same too but different approach, they just don’t hire anyone for keeping paychecks for themselves
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.
Thanks for reminding me to login and collect my free game.
“All platforms” uh huh sure yep
EGS is unironically one case where changing to Electron would be actual progress. The launcher does NOT need to be a fucking UE5 app
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.
1st paragraph - a mirror. As if I’m writing this.
2nd paragraph - even tho I hate exclusivity that they have established, it is not primary reason why I would never use EGS. For me, primary one would be them having a downright crap launcher. The rest is just more reasons to skip using EGS.
I have so many free games from epic, but absolutely nothing is interesting to me.
I got Prey from them years ago. One of the best free games ever.
Subnautica as well. Such a great game
They also had Death Stranding
Oh hey it’s me
I collected the free games almost religiously for maybe a couple of years, mostly so I had something of a backup library in case something terrible happened to Steam
I stopped after realising I was literally only interacting with that store literally to collect the games, I don’t think I put a single minute into any of them
This is me.
I did get to play death stranding and both turnip boy games, which were both good. Also I played ghost wire Tokyo and Calypso protocol and found out they weren’t for me. Whoever did the environmental design for Calypso protocol deserves an award though- it’s all gorgeous. The actual game and story are dull as fuck.
Calypso protocol
Callisto Protocol?
LMAO yes
Caliban Protocol?
Pelican Control?
Every year there’s one free game that interests me. Otherwise eventually I’m going to give my Epic account to one of my nephews/nieces.
My friends and I have gotten a shitload of time in our free copies of Gloomhaven.
Other than that not so much. And the Linux support is WAY fiddlier.
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.
I know you’re not saying it to disagree with me, but I would like to clarify that I didn’t think he was factually completely right. I honestly don’t even think his argument is necessarily sound. The thing I do like is that he was arguing from good fundamentals.
My reason for making the first comment is that I have a strong belief that we should argue against things that people actually say and do, like you’re doing bringing up Elon’s actions. Yours is a great example of an honest argument.
And I dislike all of these straw men that fly around all the time.
Idk, according to the source below your comment, you are absolutely misrepresenting what they said. They weren’t even talking about CSAM when they said that. I feel like there are so many things to criticize him for that you don’t need to outright lie.
