• Tuscy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    He’s just salty because the only games people “purchase” are the weekly free ones.

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        4 hours ago

        And here I thought I was special, seeing as other people actually bother enough to redeem those free games every week. I stopped doing it a long time ago and I’d rather pay for those games on steam/gog offers.

        I can’t be bothered with epic even for the free ones.

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          I thought I would use the free games on epic as a demo for games I would like to buy at steam, turns out I just buy them at steam, I never play them on epic, I think I tried out two games in the beginning of the whole give away but that is it

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        2 days ago

        Playnite is the better choice if you’re on Windows, but either way, don’t let Tim’s dumb store stop you from ruining his day by generating a bunch of metrics that show you’re only playing freebies!

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        2 days ago

        Keep collecting them. Each one you get costs Epic money and helps counter some of that Fortnite cash that lets Epic keep paying for exclusive contracts. Keep bleeding them and eventually they won’t be able to keep buying exclusive releases.

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          Epic pays a flat rate to offer games for free, they don’t pay per download.

          Downloading them just helps Epic inflate their “active users” number when talking to investors.

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      Not even. I’ve bought games on Steam that I forgot I had in Epic because Epic is just that trash. Fuck Epic for trying to start their store by bribing developers for exclusivity on their platform. Bitch ass tactics to begin with and then crying and whining when their mob mentality strong arming didn’t work. Best believe if their shit had worked and they became popular those greedy assholes would be asking a higher percentage once everyone was locked in.

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        14 hours ago

        I love hating epic just as much as anybody else, but those exclusivity deals are not necessary just bribing the devs.

        The first Hades game would have been much smaller in scope and features, without epic funding them and helping them implementing something like EOS, the game would be definedly worse than it is.

        Remedy has also stated they could not make Alan Wake 2 without Epics funding. People often say the Epic exclusivity ruined its salea, but realistically without it there would not be a game.

        But even so, i think them suing Steam is a asshole move.

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          12 hours ago

          Ok, and what about games like Rocket League? It was already wildly popular. And didn’t we get interviews from a few exclusivity deal people saying that in the long run it wasn’t better than just launching on steam?

          But yes, I’m glad 2 games got made despite Epics shittiness. Maybe if they built features into their launcher they’d have more. How long did it take them to make a friends list? And last I heard, wasn’t viewing your own library still largely dependent on you knowing what games you already owned?

          Yeah, never gonna defend that shitstain of a company. They tried to bully their way in and failed and they deserve it 100000%

      • Tuscy@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Yea. Like one or two good ones and sandwiched with a bunch of trash games no one wants.