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

silentknyght@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    GOG still has that niche of the “old games.” Can’t think of anywhere else I could get DOS games that also come with patches and updates to make them work on modern systems.
    
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  - Jako301@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do not rely on that.
    
    Case in point: Arkham City.
    
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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