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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I used to claim every free game just to help support the dev and cost them a bit more money, but I've decided just not to engage with the EGS at all.

I will never forgive them for trying to start the exclusive war on PC, and I am happy to see most gamers reject them entirely.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] InabaResident@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Well, didn't know this. I guess I'm uninstalling EGS. I'm not using it much anyway.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I have more than 200 games on Epic, and I'm not ashamed to admit it! I've never given them any money, just collected their free games every week for years.

[–] dkppunk@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Same here. I used to claim every single free game each week except when it was the HP game. I think I’ve played maybe one and I’m so disgusted by the comments of the CEO that I just uninstalled it a couple of weeks ago because it’s no longer worth the space on my hard drive.