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Free on Epic, not anywhere that matters.
I don't understand this way of thinking tbh. Its free. Who cares. I never buy anything on epic. I just claim and play free games they give away. I don't fanboy any corporation.
Because that way you give relevancy to that platform, and let it take your data.
Fuck Epic, they should make better products, not give away free shit.
If they ever get any relevant amount of users, they will enshittify so hard you won't believe it.
Yes, Epic launcher is shit. But steams features aren't all it is praised to be either. I like some of it like the recording feature and steam link. But ANYTHING on steam involving community is absolute garbage. Guides are just meme bullshit. Discussion forums for games are filled with hate speech, points farming and incels. Screenshots is a ton of sexual stuff. Their customer service is horrific. Moderation is almost non existent. CS2 is a gambling similator filled with underaged addicts and Valve profits a ton from them.
I own a steam deck and use it everyday. But only for games because any Steam aspect involving the platform is absolute shit.
So besides games being discounted a ton, Steam is pretty shit and Valve doesn't give a shit because they rake in money while sitting on their asses.
Yeah I mean, it's silly as shit.
Both Epic and Valve are like multi-billionaires in the gaming industry. So it's silly to me that people are rah-rah'ing for one billionaire over another billionaire. And please spare me the launcher comparisons, I know Steam is like feature rich, though it is because of it's stupid social features and built-in Chromium browser that it had to cut off old OS support.
I don't care for any of that shit, game is a game.
Exactly.
If you have to install Epic launcher to play it, you might as well pirate. Your odds of installing spyware on your system are much lower on the high seas.
Or just use something like Heroic Games Launcher instead:
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
You don't need an epic launcher to play any of their free games.
Free is free
While it would have been nice for OP to mention this, honestly dude, fuck off. People can decide for themselves if they want to install Epic for a free title without this kind of toxic, elitist discourse.
Let us know when Steam offers free games that isn't freemium garbage that wants to mooch off of you for money, honey.
Ah yes, an excellent rebuttal, more elitism.
They don't have them every week but here is a list of all the ones I've grabbed recently
You don't need any epic products to play epic games.
Don't you need an Epic account and the Epic store, which are Epic products?
Oh no, poor booby little has to visit a website for free entertainment
Solid mature reaction
Because elitism about online video game stores is so mature, right?
Did I say anything about my stance? I just corrected your statement that nothing from Epic is needed. If you feel attacked by that, then maybe try to be accurate next time.
Attacked? What are you talking about?