Steam: Here's a discount.
Epic: You're not allowed to buy or play any Unreal Tournament games anymore.
Steam: Here's a sale on a bunch of catered stuff
Epic Games: Here's a premium game and you cannot purchase it on any other platform because we paid the the dev to take the money and run.
Steam: here’s a platform. We know some corpos won’t release games without DRM, so here’s our in-house solution that’s non-intrusive, but if you don’t want to put DRM in your game, we won’t force you. Want to include a backup installer? Cool. No worries. Oh you don’t have solid internet? That’s cool, if you get the games installed somehow, you can use offline mode indefinitely with no issues, sorry it took us so long to work out the bugs.
Epic: YOU MUST YSE OUR SHITTY DRM FOR ANY GAME RELEASED ON OUR PLATFORM, AND YOU MUST BE ONLINE AT ALL TIMES OR YOU CANNOT PLAY THE GAMES YOU PURCHASED.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store
Maybe you should keep up to date a bit instead of making an opinion years ago and not checking what's been happening since.
Also, offline play has been available for a long time too.
First-class Linux support from Steam means they'll get my support every time over Epic.
Even worse, Epic's been dropping linux support from games they buy and then they prevent others from implementing it by not supporting it in their launcher and EAC
Please install my innocent game launcher, yes of course it needs to be root to install games and prevent cheating. I'll give you a free game if you install it !
I treat my PC like a console at this point. Don't use it for anything but gaming because of all the insane stuff games are doing with essentially making you install spyware. Figure I'd give them as little data as I can. I even have it on a separate network that can only communicate with the internet, not the rest of my LAN.
You could probably just use linux with VM in that case. Haven't tried it myself but that's should isolate everything you don't want on your personal system.
It probably wouldn't work out for the spyware that doesn't want you running a VM for "anti-cheating" purposes.
You don't actually need to have Epic installed to take advantage of the free games: https://github.com/derrod/legendary
What access toes it actually have? Or is this a flippant comment?
And does steam have the same level of access?
Redeem all free games from Epic. Never install their launcher. You get a free library to use with Geforce Now.
Wait question - can you actually do this? I'm trying but it seems like you can only sign into games with epic, not actually play your games there?
Get Heroic Games Launcher
I'm still gonna take it though. Free is free.
And for that price I'll jump through some minor hoops to get them onto my Steam Deck.
Steam: supports all PC platforms
Epic Game: supports only cringe
Compared to stuff like GoG, where multiple open source launchers exist. Those launchers work with steam too, but you are required to have the proprietary Steam launcher installed.
Remember folks, if the product or service is free to use, it's likely the actual product is you and your data.
In this case I think it's mostly to get people to use the App regularely and so expose more people to the store.
Honestly though, peoples priorities are wierd. Refuse to use Epic while handing over waaayy more sensitive data to Google.
If you're concerned about data collection, start with changing your search engine. Then maybe your browser. Then your email provider...
(Written from GrapheneOS)
Someone make a fuckepic community lol
I have a Epic acciunt and claim all the free games. No play time. The intention is just to do what I can to hurt them economically. Hopefully the creators of the games akao get something.
Still i will take it even if the small % of game(s) will be paid by Epic (essentially it will be paid by parents of all fortnite kids/teens). Btw I'm not sure if the money offered for being an exclusive is enough to compensate the sale that it would make on steam. Even blizzard is moving to steam at this point.
Hasn't Epic mostly stopped the exclusivity program? I think a couple publishers like Deep Silver still do timed Epic exclusivity, but I don't remember them making any new deals in a long time
