Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale

De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• silentknyght@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bad take.

  I’ll remind you that Steam needs SOME competition in order to actually get better. Remember when they suddenly addressed long-standing issues with the client and storefront a couple years ago? That was because the EGS appeared.

  I’ll also remind young folks that the Internet was extremely negative regarding steam when it was new. Yes, I’ve been on Steam for 20+ years.

  Tldr: EGS is fine. Relax

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also a bad take. Competition is good, and a proper competitor to steam would benefit us all, but users don’t have to support them just on the basis of them being competitors.

    I agree “EGS is bad because I want only steam” is silly, but if it’s a worse experience for the individual user or if they perceive it’s involved in non consumer friendly practices, it’s perfectly normal they are not supported.

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I fully support a good competitor to Steam like GOG. It may be less convenient than Steam but it has one key feature that no other shop has: no DRM.

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      • 7112@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is the best way forward. If GOG had more games it would change the industry. More companies need to partner with them.

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      • Jako301@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Games that are sold on GOG are usually also DRM free on steam. Sometimes the steamworks DRM is required, but that’s so easy to trick that the games can still be considered DRM free.

        The only thing GOG does is pre-filtering for DRM free only.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except that they revamped Steam loads of times before anyone else was competing with them. The biggest was when The Orange Box launched and they had added better Friends support as well as literally all the community features and achievement systems.

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• detalferous@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You aren’t supporting them by accepting free games and then not using them. It costs them money to give them to you.

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  • Radicaldog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We found out in the Apple lawsuit that the games are fixed price for Epic, so you can download or not as you wish - individually you do not make their cost go up.

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    • detalferous@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahh!I didn’t know that. Thanks for the correction.

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• CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No no, you don’t get it. Windows has problems, but switching to Linux would be like leaving your home country because you don’t like its political trends. Where’s your OS patriotism? There’s no need for Linux, because you can just keep using Windows and hope Microsoft ends up doing what’s best for their customers products :)

  I’m paraphrasing here, but that’s an actual thing the CEO and founder of Epic Games posted on Twitter: nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/…/964284402741149698

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  • De_Narm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s disguting on so many levels. Thanks for that bit of knowledge.

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• reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox

  I’d love to see that, because my understanding is that the anticheat software that fortnite and others use requires pretty deep access to your system that linux either can’t or won’t give them

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  • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes they use kernel level anticheat and they are correct it would be easier to cheat on Linux.

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    • reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      any idea where commentOP got their notion that supporting linux would involve “only needing to click a single checkbox”?

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      • AProfessional@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        EAC does support Linux and can be enabled. It just isn’t as secure.

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      • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The narrative that they’re just lazy.

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      • Jako301@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Other posts about this topic have similar claims. No idea who started the idea, but it gets mentioned a lot that ticking a box is all that’s required

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• Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s more than clicking a single box when they build. They will have to provide support for Linux systems, that’s the real kicker. Also their anti cheat might not like Linux.

  Not saying they shouldn’t, it’s ridiculous that they don’t support Linux. But there are valid reasons.

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• SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll never forgive them buying Rocket League and cutting Linux support. It used to have a native Linux version.

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