How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by MIDItheKID@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I love the idea of getting older AAA titles for free, but hate the idea of installing the Epic Games Launcher on my computer. Where do you guys stand on this?

It also makes me sad that Epig Games has fallen so far. I grew up on Unreal Tournament and now I don't want them anywhere near my computer.

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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago

A big reason people dislike Epic is due to their forced-exclusivity on a lot of games. A popular, highly-anticipated game will only release the PC version on Epic for the first several months, and then it'll appear on Steam and other platforms, forcing fans to either wait or sign up for a new platform that they didn't want anything to do with.

And it's just one more piece of spyware on your computer to serve as a possible vector of attack from hackers.

[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

This is c/patientgamers, so I assume that first reason wouldn't bother most of us here. I'm curious about the spyware assertion though. Were they caught doing something shady?

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

iirc it was a bit of a controversy when Epic was newer that they would- without asking- just grab a bunch of information from a Steam install on the same PC. Stuff like your friends list and your play history. They did it by directly looking at local files, too, so it wasn't even through Steam's API.

[-] Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah same. What is this spyware thing you're taking about? Personally, I think all these connected software soy on you one way or another. I use split tunneling a lot on my VPN and I also have a pihole connected to my router. Anyways, I'm curious to hear why epic is spyware.

this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025

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