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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[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I don't disagree with everything you said here but come on, Steam is basically a privately owned PC games store monopoly that has now been going on for 25 years. Since it's not public we can't really know for sure but there's a very real possibility that Epic is the underdog here

[–] darganon@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I don't think steam has any anti-competitive behavior that I'm aware of.

Fortnite has roughly 100 million more monthly active users than steam, to say nothing of every piece of software running Unreal Engine, Epic is huge.

[–] dotMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Steam was fined in Australia for not providing refunds for games

[–] Firenz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It was a bit more than just an issue of Valve not providing refunds.

Read about it here and here.

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