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Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.

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[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I think there are alternative FOSS launchers that you can use if the issue is the launcher itself. On the deck I use Heroic, I think there are also for windows.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

It's the general business scumminess towards consumers. I want Epic to fail for it.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

In that case, consider they have to pay for every download of free games (at least server costs) ;)

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In some ways, yes absolutely agreed. But on the other hand, love that they're going against Google Play Store atm, even won in court just now.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Evil fighting evil for more power. I'm not holding my breath for any meaningful positive changes.

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yep, only reason Epic sued Google is because they want more money. I think Tim Sweeney was even quoted that they'd make billions from it.

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yupp well said!

[-] ram@bookwormstory.social 6 points 1 year ago

Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that's much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA'd and updated. It's wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it's better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My only gripe with Playnite is how inconsistent feature support is in themes. You want to see your achievements? This theme has support, but it won't show data from How Long To Beat. This theme supports both, but cannot show console icons for emulated games... Hopefully this will change when version 11 is out next year, with more features from plugins being moved to core.

Other than that, it's great. I use it on a PC as a DIY console, Windows is set to start it automatically, and all my Steam games are here, alongside all my console games which I have downloaded as ROMs to centralize them all on a single device.

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