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What's up with Epic Games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I can't seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them...

But for the sake of promoting conversation on Lemmy, what's the issue with Epic, and why should I go for Steam or GoG?

Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent... But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater 🥹... coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents... Hence I've always played bootleg, or pirated games.

TL;DR

What's wrong?

Their launcher has a terrible UI AND UX.
They make exclusive deals with studios to prevent other platforms from getting games. (Someone mentioned that Steam did the same thing in their infancy. Also, I have another question; why is it ok for Sony and Microsoft to make exclusive games for their consoles but not ok for these PC platforms to do so?)
They have been invested in by a Chinese company, Tencent. (Someone mentioned that it isn't that big of a deal, but idk.)
They are actively anti-linux for some reason.

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[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A con for GOG is their site is slow as fuck. And god forbid you want to go back to a previous page, you'll likely lose where you were looking 9 times out of ten. Especially so on mobile.

Pros: Can be the only place you can get old games that would've been unavailable otherwise

The older games are often really really cheap, especially during sales

[-] cottonmon@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Another con is that GOG versions are usually not updated as much as other versions are. It's a shame, because I'd prefer to use GOG when possible.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Gog also seemingly no 2fa other than an faq page with instructions that cannot be followed.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

I always get 2FA'd on GoG for an emailed code

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Do you remember how to configure it? Last I checked I went through every account and settings page on the store site and seemingly separate customer service log in and no clear way to set it up.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not a clue sorry. I'm personally not one to go out of my way to set up 2FA even though I know it's good practice to do so (unless it's work related, then I do)

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 points 7 months ago

Steam's, Epic's, Ubisoft's, Battle.net's and whatever-EA's-thing-is-called-now's sites are also slow as shit. What is it with these platforms which prevent them from loading a webpage in less than 10 seconds?

[-] BigTechMustBurn@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

By making the entire thing a JavaScript monstrosity with egregious amounts of scripts.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Sadly, it's likely a lot of tracking. The kind that look where your mouse is and where you scroll and stop etc.

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 points 7 months ago

What tracking does Epic need? "According to our analytics, 100% of users scroll to the free games banner on Tuesday at 5pm CEST, then leave and don't come back for a week. What a mystery!"

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 2 points 7 months ago

Oh thanks for the reminder, I hadn't opened epic so I can scroll down to the free games banner in a while.

[-] suction@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You’d be appalled how much people in corporations earn for making these obvious observations…

[-] ono@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In Steam's case, the slowness looks more like a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application (similar to Electron) with a lot of extras bolted on. It's just not built for efficient use of resources.