It’s interesting that when a company fires a bunch of employees just to increase quarterly profit, the employees no longer feel any duty to keep the company secrets. Which hurts company profits even more.
Good.
I think valve does same too but different approach, they just don’t hire anyone for keeping paychecks for themselves
Oh hey it’s me
I collected the free games almost religiously for maybe a couple of years, mostly so I had something of a backup library in case something terrible happened to Steam
I stopped after realising I was literally only interacting with that store literally to collect the games, I don’t think I put a single minute into any of them
This is me.
My friends and I have gotten a shitload of time in our free copies of Gloomhaven.
Other than that not so much. And the Linux support is WAY fiddlier.
Every year there’s one free game that interests me. Otherwise eventually I’m going to give my Epic account to one of my nephews/nieces.
EGS is unironically one case where changing to Electron would be actual progress. The launcher does NOT need to be a fucking UE5 app
Reminder: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has defended child pornography, saying that stopping it is “gatekeeping”.
ITT: pedo defenders
Man, you really need to have something to back it up when you say shit like this; it’s just good practice. This is the quote.
I dont even want the free games, they can keep their grifty service.
Well no shit, 3 years of Epic have over 300 games haven’t spent a dime on their platform. Games I really want and willing to spend money goes to Steam.
I dont have quite as many, but I only spent about 5 dollars on a dlc for cities skyline. That is the extent I have spent on egs. Steam on the other hand…
It’s not even that EGS is terrible, it’s that Steam is much better
Its also that EGS is terrible.
The most recent “feature” they added that made a difference, was the ability to view my own library.
8(?) Years after launch it still operates like a prototype I’d cobble together in an afternoon
Plus we all know that if EGS ever achieved market dominance, they’d enshittify in no time.
That was surely always the plan right. Lure users with good prices and free games, grow the platform, then extract profit.
But the plan didn’t work, and so after all this time they’re still stuck on “best behaviour” mode trying to lure users who aren’t coming.
100%
The plan was just to keep throwing money until they trampled the ecosystem and came out on top, well this didn’t work for shit.
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“Marginally profitable.” Profit is profit, and their end goal of giving people a library to drive sales has worked.
Competition is good, for end consumers, but not a chance I’m going to be using EGS. They had no interest in making things better for consumers, especially with trying to create exclusivity in PC gaming.
Its existence and with Gog they offer an alternative to steam if steam bans a game and to prevent its theoretical rise to evil after gaben dies.
Bad logic on “profit is profit”.
Opportunity cost is huge here.
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.
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.
“All platforms” uh huh sure yep
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
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.
Sad.
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.
