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What's up with Epic Games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I can't seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them...

But for the sake of promoting conversation on Lemmy, what's the issue with Epic, and why should I go for Steam or GoG?

Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent... But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater 🥹... coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents... Hence I've always played bootleg, or pirated games.

TL;DR

What's wrong?

Their launcher has a terrible UI AND UX.
They make exclusive deals with studios to prevent other platforms from getting games. (Someone mentioned that Steam did the same thing in their infancy. Also, I have another question; why is it ok for Sony and Microsoft to make exclusive games for their consoles but not ok for these PC platforms to do so?)
They have been invested in by a Chinese company, Tencent. (Someone mentioned that it isn't that big of a deal, but idk.)
They are actively anti-linux for some reason.

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[-] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Definitely a terrible idea.

Using money to jump ahead in the line is a terrible mindset. Provide good features, you'll get your recognition.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Which they don't do. Their platform has very few features, and doesn't even have a cart. (Well last time I booted EGS like a year ago).

They have almost no features and of the features they do provide, none of them are great. Their only "feature" is operating at a loss, subsidized by megacorps, for many years like Amazon to gain a bunch of market share.

Luckily for gamers, steam already existed so they couldn't corner the market and enshittify the entire industry like amazon did.

[-] hh93@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

No it won't - people are lazy

Even CDProjekt sold many more copies on steam than GOG when you

Actually own the ge there instead of renting a licence for it.
Know that 100% of your money go to the game developers.
Get many additional goodies for free

Don't tell me people are choosing the better deal when it's all just steam having the might of "I have most of my games there already" on their side...