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Personally, while I do use Heroic to access games from the epic games launcher, I will probably never buy anything from them because of Epic buying exclusivity and removing Steam as an option from games that were crowd-funded.
That makes sense. Sounds like more of an Epic Games thing than specifically an anti-games launcher sentiment, or maybe a little of both? I hadn’t heard about the crowd funded game exclusivity thing though, I’ll have to read up on that. Deeply lame thing for them to do, for sure.
I've also run into a few issues with the epic games launcher (i.e. game wouldn't patch, so I had to reinstall the launcher. Having to reinstall a game because the launcher doesn't see it anymore, launcher is slow, etc.) which is why I use the Heroic launcher.
I’ve heard a lot about Heroic but honestly never looked into it. Not that I’m old or anything but it reminds me of Trillian from back in the day.