• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    The one thing I like about them is they recognized why people really wanted to stick with steam: they have a large established library and don’t want to bounce back and forth.

    They took that and said “ok we’ll give you free games every week until you have a large library here and won’t want to leave!”

    Jokes on them, I now have a large library of completely free games on epic and still use steam for the games I want to buy because I refuse to support their exclusivity bullshit.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, Steam is also very functional and has a ton of support features. Especially for modding. It’s not just stockholm syndrome.

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      I get the games on epic but I haven’t even bothered playing them because I game exclusively on linux and just have not bothered with lutris / heroic etc. Proton with steam is just effortless and after years of tinkering with wine back in the day I want the simplicity

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      I resolved to never give Epic a dime when I got a popup forcing me to agree to a binding arbitration agreement in order to launch games I already have installed and in my library. It tells me that they think people will have good reasons to sue them in the future.

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        You can send a snail mail to opt out, which is scummy at best, but technically you can opt out.

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          This is what’s known as a dark pattern and is the exact thing the US government is suing Adobe over.

          Making service cancellation or opt-out deliberately difficult is exploitative and something that should be illegal. Any company that does it doesn’t deserve a cent from you.

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      2 months ago

      You don’t need a subscription like Prime to get the free games? I was under the impression you do.

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      2 months ago

      Can you also launch the games through steam to get features like the overlay and stuff

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        2 months ago

        I believe you can, I haven’t tried though. The games install like any other and have an .exe you can point to through steam so it would probably just be a matter of having the epic launcher open as well when you go to play.

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          2 months ago

          Ah cus I have a faint memory of getting games thru Amazon and launching thru steam but idr if I had the overlay

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      2 months ago

      Epic feels like a kid’s toy compared to steam imo. Just overall less usable and dumbed down.