"All platforms" uh huh sure yep
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I keep forgetting to check their free games regularly, just did, cause of this post and was reminded, why it's not a priority for me lol
Sometimes there is good stuff.
Now is not one of those times.
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.
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.
I gave up on even claiming free games because i got a job
I used it for Mechwarrior because it was exclusive. Never ended up playing it because my computer was a bit glitchy at the time. Now that I've upgraded the computer, I would rather play the games I have on steam rather than install epic for one game.
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.
You've missed out the "don't charge devs the Unreal licensing fee for games sold through Epic Store", which would be another 10% on top of every sale. If they had any sales, of course. But yeah, an extra ten percent of nothing remains nothing, and they all go back to Steam.
I'd rather not use either. Lutris and pirated games all the way.
Enjoy the slop I guess, lutris is garbage now.
Well Heroic uses Electron which is just another kind of slop.
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Have you checked out heroic? I've never really used lutris myself. But the devs behavior definitely makes me never want to try again. Heroic works awesome tying into GoG, EGS, and Amazon. Granted I don't game like I did 30 years ago. Nor do I even pirate games at this point. I could, I just don't feel a need or desire to. So YMMV.
I've used Heroic, yes. Heroic is not suitable for pirated games. Lutris is. I do not care about the dev using genAI, the app works fine and I will continue to happily use it as long as it works. I am not interested in Bottles or other alternatives.
Fair enough. And yeah I'm not horribly opposed to them using llm stuff. It's more of a hindrance than it is a real help anyhow. Much more concerning is their assholish behavior about it. If you're going to use it use it just own up to it and be clear. Spitefully trying to hide or obfuscate is the behavior of someone who would try to hide or obfuscate data loggers back doors or other malicious code knowingly or unknowingly. Not something you need a higher risk of when you're trying to pirate binaries.
What? I tried making cyberpunk 2077 (the high sea 'edition') works on lutris for hours before giving up. Next day I test heroic and it worked first time
I just installed the DODI version in Lutris. worked out of the box without any additional steps.
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I don't buy many games off Steam either tbh. Most of my 1000+ games are from bundles.
My most recent purchase was the first Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider trilogy because they were about 80 pence each.
The sales are not what they once were, but you still get the odd bargain.
Heh i got Satisfactory during the Epic Exclisivity Deal there and bought it again when it got to steam, maybe a bit stupid but man, i hate Epic Games
I only used EGS once and it was for a early build play test of John Carpenter's Toxic Commando.
I must be that crazy guy who plays all of his games, albeit slowly. Not counting VR, I've spent way more time on all my free games on Epic than my Steam library.
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.
Their customer service is garbage.
Sad.