Steam: Here's a discount.
Epic: You're not allowed to buy or play any Unreal Tournament games anymore.
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Steam: Here's a sale on a bunch of catered stuff
Epic Games: Here's a premium game and you cannot purchase it on any other platform because we paid the the dev to take the money and run.
Steam: here’s a platform. We know some corpos won’t release games without DRM, so here’s our in-house solution that’s non-intrusive, but if you don’t want to put DRM in your game, we won’t force you. Want to include a backup installer? Cool. No worries. Oh you don’t have solid internet? That’s cool, if you get the games installed somehow, you can use offline mode indefinitely with no issues, sorry it took us so long to work out the bugs.
Epic: YOU MUST YSE OUR SHITTY DRM FOR ANY GAME RELEASED ON OUR PLATFORM, AND YOU MUST BE ONLINE AT ALL TIMES OR YOU CANNOT PLAY THE GAMES YOU PURCHASED.
Wait, you can't play Epic-games while offline?
Honestly, you might be able to these days. I haven’t interacted with the Epic app in years though, and you couldn’t last I tried.
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❤️ Gaben
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store
Maybe you should keep up to date a bit instead of making an opinion years ago and not checking what's been happening since.
Also, offline play has been available for a long time too.
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Steam: here's the launcher. It opens in a few minutes
Epic: You better go get yourself a coffee with that money you saved on the free game cause we're gonna be here a while
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Steam: supports all PC platforms
Epic Game: supports only cringe
Compared to stuff like GoG, where multiple open source launchers exist. Those launchers work with steam too, but you are required to have the proprietary Steam launcher installed.
Please install my innocent game launcher, yes of course it needs to be root to install games and prevent cheating. I'll give you a free game if you install it !
I treat my PC like a console at this point. Don't use it for anything but gaming because of all the insane stuff games are doing with essentially making you install spyware. Figure I'd give them as little data as I can. I even have it on a separate network that can only communicate with the internet, not the rest of my LAN.
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You don't actually need to have Epic installed to take advantage of the free games: https://github.com/derrod/legendary
What access toes it actually have? Or is this a flippant comment?
And does steam have the same level of access?
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Remember folks, if the product or service is free to use, it's likely the actual product is you and your data.
In this case I think it's mostly to get people to use the App regularely and so expose more people to the store.
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I'm still gonna take it though. Free is free.
And for that price I'll jump through some minor hoops to get them onto my Steam Deck.
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Never going to be able to play more than a small percentage of my library anyway, might as well add another game to the pile.
First-class Linux support from Steam means they'll get my support every time over Epic.
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Redeem all free games from Epic. Never install their launcher. You get a free library to use with Geforce Now.
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Can't hear anything over the exclusives
Still i will take it even if the small % of game(s) will be paid by Epic (essentially it will be paid by parents of all fortnite kids/teens). Btw I'm not sure if the money offered for being an exclusive is enough to compensate the sale that it would make on steam. Even blizzard is moving to steam at this point.
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