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Honestly I know people here are against Epic, but Google Play is such garbage that I welcome the epic store on Android.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I guess it makes sense, seeing as they've perfected the desktop experience.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago

Right in the nuts

[–] Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

chef's kiss

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Epic about to introduce absolutely pieces of shit crappy third party launchers even on mobile.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus, I was downloading and installing packages earlier for unreal 5.4 and it basically bricks my pc until the install is finished. Infuriating.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I have well over 300 games on Epic Games Store. I have played zero. I don't know why I keep getting the free games every week, but Steam is where I keep buying. Eventually, I'll play something on there.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm the same way but use heroic games launcher even on windows if that is what you run. Its lite on CPU and you have access to epic gog and epic. if you like the games you played then by them on steam then.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Heroic works great on my steamdeck, too. How I've played several games from gog or free epic games on it.

I rigged up origin on the SD before there was an easier implementation to do it, though. That was like a 94 step nightmare, but Assasins Creed Black Flag runs great.

[–] ouch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm counting on Linux support becoming better. Although I guess Heroic Games Launcher is almost there already.

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[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago
[–] anas@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Store exclusives are coming to mobile :/

[–] Eggyhead@fedia.io 7 points 1 year ago

Cue the space man gun meme.

It always was store exclusives.

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a gamer for over 40 years, I don't play games on my phone. I find it boring, monotonous, and repetitive, along with the ads, gatcha mechanics, and whatever trash they're pushing. If I want to play a game, I'll use my desktop or Switch.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

I play shattered dungeon.

Game boy emulators.

TIC-80 and PICO8 games.

Native android Final Fantasy VI.

There are some good options for phone gaming.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, what we really needed in this world was Epic Games doing anything ever.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Has this not been a thing for a while? What app do I have on my phone?

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[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

TLDR: you can get it from the url http://epic.download

Looks like it only has Fortnite, Fall Guys and Rocket League on there for now

[–] Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't remember the last time i played a game on my phone tbh

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only for EU iPhones, right?

[–] simple@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. Worldwide on Android but only EU on iPhone.

[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe the EU will eventually extend these rules to the iPad. I’ve already tried installing from the epic website and the process is not that bad.

[–] rowdyrockets@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bastards actually built what looks to be a nice platform. I can’t wait to install a different launcher for every app on my phone!

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Better to have competition than relying on the same launcher for every app. Monopolies are convinient but actually really bad for you.

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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh nice, Fall Guys comes to mobile.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not even joking, if they honor their cut rates for Unreal Engine from the PC Store this will be very big.

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