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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[–] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tencent (aka basically the chinese government) having 40% ownership is a major red flag for me.
Don't really have that much more to say about them, since I don't play their games. Unreal Engine is really impressive so it's a shame

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

While this is a concern I generally share, I doubt the overwhelming majority of players even give it a single thought. Most don‘t care about things like human rights when the product is nice. Only once did I hear someone bring up Tencent owning 30% of Larian (Baldur‘s Gate 3) for example. The masses really don‘t even want to hear it.

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol average sinophobe western chud

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 0 points 9 months ago

Average .ml lemming