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How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic?
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this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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I'm over the politics of game launchers. Like, a free game is a free game, some devs/publishers probably get paid to get their game released for free. I've taken advantage of them, I wish I hadn't deleted one of my Epic games accounts before where I nearly had gotten every game that I actually had wanted that was given away for free. But I was naive because I got caught up in the stupid pissing contest between Steam fanboys and Epic fanboys.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Free is free. I would rather a free whole game, than a freemium game, which is all that Steam mostly offers.
There's epic fanboys?
Yeah, they really like the 12% fee to devs, and think Sweeney is benevolent for suing Google and Apple.
I'm not a Steam fanboy, but they've done right by me in supporting Linux, so they get most of my gaming money. I didn't have a Steam account until they supported Linux, and I used to give Humble most of my gaming money back when they were independent and actually had interesting indie bundles. I would consider switching to GOG or EGS if they committed to supporting Linux like Steam has.
If Steam changes their policies, I'll stop buying from them. Simple as. But for now they're making my gaming experience better, so I'll continue buying from them. I'm easy to please, if you provide a good service that I want that supports my platform, I'll give you money, and I'll ignore a lot of other bad stuff you do (e.g. MTX in Valve games I don't play anyway).