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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Mankind Divided is free right now btw

It's not free. The point is to get me to make an account on Epic and install their stupid launcher. That isn't free and I'm tired of people claiming things are "free" when in fact they exist to get you to sign up for another service. It's not free-as-in-air.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago

Well, on Linux (e.g. my Steam Deck), I can just install Heroic Launcher and don't need their stupid launcher whatsoever.

[-] CrayCray@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I am playing my epic games exclusively via heroic and it is a blast.

[-] Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I am missing an equivalent community to "fuck epic". With all the relevant information of why this service is still not a good idea to follow, even by grabbing their games "for free".

Edit: Like this extensive summery: https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/bs4kh6/rfuckepic_for_dummies_a_quick_breakdown/

[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

You're right, but I do appreciate getting GTA V for $0. They'll never get a cent from me but I'll take their games. I'm also running Windows so nothing about my gaming is free-as-in-air anyways

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you -- depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That's my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.

[-] v0rld@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Well if they can turn fakeaccount53643@yahoo.com into money they honestly deserve the 50 cent they're getting for it.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They can. That's literally what data brokers do.

[-] v0rld@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

[-] Mako_Bunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Fingerprinting though

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

But it wasn't worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn't really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

We know it isnt free free. But in this economy you take what you can get.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

The horror ๐Ÿ˜”

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