I mean what did they expect? With all those free games on a set frequency they basically trained their users that this is what Epic is for. That was their entire marketing. I don’t know a single person IRL who has an Epic account and has actually bought a game there.
I think I bought Hades there when the discount was more than on steam. One game in years of collecting free ones.
Maybe they were thinking that people would see cool stuff every time they clicked over to get the free games, but they’re lacking most of the stuff steam has so no one wants to spend any time in the epic environment
I wish GOG Galaxy and Playnite were good launchers. I don’t like Epic and I don’t like the stranglehold Steam has on the market. Basically I want a launcher where I can see all of my games, but I also want to be able to open as many stores as I want, and then be able to compare prices and then buy from each of those stores within the same launcher.
So basically isthereanydeal.com that’s also a launcher? I suppose I wouldn’t be mad at it
Apparently Playnite has a ITAD plugin you can use, but it’s limited to your wishlist, and doesn’t have an all-in-one browser, and it doesn’t look like it’s very well maintained.
What’s wrong with steam? Tons of reasonably priced games with good accessibility and versatility.
Monopolies tend to be bad. The more my game library is on steam, the more fucked I am if my country decides to ban Steam for some reason or another, or the US decides to fuck everyone else over.
They can be bad and that absolutely could happen, but I think steam is a rare example of a customer benefiting monopoly right now. Monopolies make the market less efficient and right now the most efficient market for computer games is enshitification galore, but valve is sitting in the way of that, manipulating the market and making games be less economically productive (by forcing them to be more pleasant for customers).
If we had 20 equally viable launchers/stores, it’d be a race to the bottom on price, which would force them all to enshittify or die
Right now
Yeah. Worries me too. Maybe a more stable option would be to grow gog galaxy and other “opinionated” launchers so there’s competition but nobody is trying to burn the market down to earn a few more pennies…
Build one!
I dont even want the free games, they can keep their grifty service.
EGS is unironically one case where changing to Electron would be actual progress. The launcher does NOT need to be a fucking UE5 app
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.
1st paragraph - a mirror. As if I’m writing this.
2nd paragraph - even tho I hate exclusivity that they have established, it is not primary reason why I would never use EGS. For me, primary one would be them having a downright crap launcher. The rest is just more reasons to skip using EGS.
Wow, what a surprise. Next up they will discover nobody even plays those free claimed games or even buy them on Steam if they’re good
“All platforms” uh huh sure yep
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.
Could you next time please just copy the text and pic, instead of creating a screenshot of a screenshot?
This is dumb.
I gave up on even claiming free games because i got a job
i gave my epic games account with the free games i claimed to a friend because i wasnt playing any of them
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
Their customer service is garbage.
