It’s interesting that when a company fires a bunch of employees just to increase quarterly profit, the employees no longer feel any duty to keep the company secrets. Which hurts company profits even more.
Good.
Oh hey it’s me
I collected the free games almost religiously for maybe a couple of years, mostly so I had something of a backup library in case something terrible happened to Steam
I stopped after realising I was literally only interacting with that store literally to collect the games, I don’t think I put a single minute into any of them
This is me.
Every year there’s one free game that interests me. Otherwise eventually I’m going to give my Epic account to one of my nephews/nieces.
Reminder: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has defended child pornography, saying that stopping it is “gatekeeping”.
ITT: pedo defenders
Man, you really need to have something to back it up when you say shit like this; it’s just good practice. This is the quote.
It’s not even that EGS is terrible, it’s that Steam is much better
Its also that EGS is terrible.
The most recent “feature” they added that made a difference, was the ability to view my own library.
8(?) Years after launch it still operates like a prototype I’d cobble together in an afternoon
Well no shit, 3 years of Epic have over 300 games haven’t spent a dime on their platform. Games I really want and willing to spend money goes to Steam.
I dont have quite as many, but I only spent about 5 dollars on a dlc for cities skyline. That is the extent I have spent on egs. Steam on the other hand…
“Marginally profitable.” Profit is profit, and their end goal of giving people a library to drive sales has worked.
Competition is good, for end consumers, but not a chance I’m going to be using EGS. They had no interest in making things better for consumers, especially with trying to create exclusivity in PC gaming.
Its existence and with Gog they offer an alternative to steam if steam bans a game and to prevent its theoretical rise to evil after gaben dies.
Bad logic on “profit is profit”.
Opportunity cost is huge here.
I get free Epic games from Prime Gaming, but I refuse to redeem them on principle. You couldn’t pay me to use Epic, or even give them an inkling that I support them.
I considered it briefly when they launched, and then they pulled the bullshit of game exclusivity on PC, which is why I left consoles behind. Because of that, I’ll never purchase from them.
I use it for Alan wake and I use gog for cyberpunk because I got a better price for it on gog.
Also I still have to run everything through steam because neither of those have controller support that actually works.
That’s one of the biggest issues I have. They don’t even have basic functions like controller support.
Ridiculous.
I’d love to know what the cost was of essentially leaving steam, making their own platform, hosting and maintains said platform, giving exclusivity bonuses to devs, and paying to give away games etc has been vs just stating on steam and paying the fees.
I feel like they all tried this then all game crawling back. Same with Netflix and everyone leaving to make their own failures.
I have several hundred free games from epic. Never spent a penny there. The problem with all those free games is that the good or interesting free games are less common. So I have a lot of games that I’ll likely never play.
Sad.
Even the freebies that I want to play, I almost never play through Epic, and usually wait until I get another copy on Steam. The overall experience of playing a game through Epic is just… bleugh.
I think I’ve only completed one game on Epic, Layers of Fear 2. The other stuff I’ve played has essentially been like playing a demo, to see if it’s worth adding to my Steam wishlist. That’s how subtractive to the enjoyment of gaming Epic is.
I also just dislike their practice of exclusivity and feel uncomfortable supporting it with my wallet. At least with Ubisoft, EA and Rockstar, it’s only their own games they wall off like that, and they almost always have a Steam-connected version so there’s at least the illusion of having everything in one place. Epic is a black hole. I don’t even remember the games that have been or are still exclusive there, because I just never encounter any information about them apart from occasional news articles about how unprofitable they’ve been even after X-number of years. It’s kinda sad, for the devs who work hard on something for years and 8 people play the fucker.
how the fuck do you launch a store without a “shopping cart” feature did 20 business fucks pay themselves to suck each other off whilst one intern wrote the store?
