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submitted 10 months ago by sub_@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

It's a tweet from user PC_Focus_ that states:

The next Epic Store FREE games has been leaked:

13th game: Ghostrunner

14th game: Escape Academy

15th game: 20 minutes till dawn

16th game: A plague tale innocence

17th game: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

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[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 40 points 10 months ago

Free games are free games, IMO it would be silly to reject them just because Epic bad. I can install them on my Steam Deck through Heroic without even having to use the official launcher.

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 29 points 10 months ago

We all have our own principles.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

You should redo them then.

I claim every free game Epic offers, not because I actually want to play them. I claim all those games because it costs Epic money. And that is my goal.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 16 points 10 months ago

If it's silly to not claim them because epic bad, it's silly to claim them because epic bad too.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

I never stated I'm not acting silly. It's true I don't really like Epic nowadays so why not state my opinion this way? It's a bit of a twist in "vote with your wallet" after all.

The games are not free, someone has to pay for them, at least something. And if it ain't me...

[-] krellor@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I remember hearing things like the epic game store launcher rifling through your steam games and contact lists, etc. I just don't want to install anything like that and running a VM just for that seems silly.

Edit: article summarizing the claim and counterclaims.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-steam-data-reddit/

Sounds like a little bit of epic not being clear in what the software does and a little of the Internet running with a misunderstanding.

[-] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago

With something like the heroic launcher you don't even need to install the Epic games launcher. Just redeem the game through the website and play them through heroic.

[-] krellor@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

That's good to know, thanks!

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Nothing against you, but that sounds entirely made up, given how hard it is to link different services via credentials.

Even Heroic Launcher and Playnite need you to log in before they can get that info.

[-] krellor@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

Here's an article that summarized the claims and counterclaims.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-steam-data-reddit/

It sounds like a little of EGS not being as upfront as they should have been and a little bit of running with a misunderstanding by the Internet.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you for the source!

ETA: And given how that all transpired, I can't blame people for being skeptical of capitalists' intentions.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Luckily EGS doesn't even work on linux :-) Heroic is vastly better anyway.

[-] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

It doesn't cost them any more. They already paid an estimate of sales.

All you're doing is telling them is that they've got your attention.

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Then I'm at least skewing their estimates I hope.

[-] shoop@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

More likely you are just padding their account numbers that they use to show investors

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

And if investors are not dumb fu*ks, the would want something like "average expediture per user" and that's another point for me!

[-] Kir@feddit.it 6 points 10 months ago

I ended up pirating all the game I own through Epic store. That's how bad it is.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What was it about EGS that made you do that?

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago

For me it's that the app consistently has errors recognizing my custom location (D:/Games/Epic/) and will lose the games in the launcher. Well, no big deal right, just point it to the location again?

Nope, no way to do that. Alright, well, reinstall the game where it already exists and it will discover the files?

Nope, can't install a game to a folder containing files. Alright, so then you have to move the game install folder then install the game then cut/paste the existing game files to... you get the picture. Most of the time I just end up having to redownload the game.

That aside, the program takes forever to launch and seems to use an obscene amount of resources for providing absolutely nothing to the game experience. Actually using it is tedious since there's no way to set a homepage that isn't their store (from last time I checked at least) and I experience a weird flickering issue along with some weird resolution scaling? It made it really hard to read the game details which seems important if you're trying to find one of the free games to play.

It's just a whole combination of frustrations that just make me question why I still have it installed. At this point I'm only still claiming games in the off-chance it's a multiplayer game I already own with cross-server support. I have a second Steam account for games I come across for free that I already own - games like Killing Floor, Payday, all those sorts. You never know when it comes in handy having an extra account for some local LAN play, so I've used the free games with the same philosophy.

All that said, you get around this using Heroic with the benefit of padding out a game library.

[-] Kir@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

At first, I was a bit annoyed that every time I launched a game I had to wait for the launcher to start and update (and sometimes login too). No big deal, but annoying.

Then, I had problem with a game update (don't remember which, maybe TLOF1) and I wanted to downgrade the version and it was impossible to do it within the store. It was easy with a pirated version to choose the patch to apply and not to.

Last week I got Outer wilds for free and installed. It crashed every time I started a new game. Reinstalling was useless. Downloaded a pirated copy to see if it was different and indeed it was: perfectly fine (no idea why, honestly).

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