Comment on What's up with Epic Games?

gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This.

  I fundamentally have no issue with the Epic Games launcher. Steam needs competition to keep it in check. Without alternatives, Steam can and will strangle Dev profits, which is a problem. But Epic is a mediocre service, another app to be running, and actively going out of their way to prevent games from being on the platform of the consumers choice, which I am not a fan of.

  Related note: does Epic have any DRM free games? Even Steam has a fair portion of games that are DRM free and work perfectly well from a flash drive on a computer that doesn’t have Steam installed. As far as I am aware, Epic does not.

  There’s just a series of minor ways in which epic is worse, and I don’t like having front-end clients for my games as is, so a second, competing alternative going out of its way to push me into using it rubs me the wrong way.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where can you find what steam games are drm free?

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    • OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      pcgamingwiki.com/…/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Stea…

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Steam DRM is optional and implemented by the developer.

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• ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hmm…

  I have never used a launcher before (for obvious reasons as mentioned in my post), so I found the idea of a separate launcher dumb in the first place. I have used it in recent times thanks to Epic’s free games. Finished two of the Tomb Raider trilogy.

  Like, I’m fine with a store, but I gotta open the launcher to launch the game? On Windows, with the Tile based Start Menu, I kind of thought it was a terrible idea NGL. I gotta open, wait for it to load, open the library, then click to run, THEN it’ll open…

  Plus, if I want to track progress, it’s a hassle because I can’t track without the damn launcher…

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You don’t need all store fronts running at once on your pc though. Just boot up what you need for the game you want and it’s just six and two threes, whether it’s steam or epic, or any other launcher.

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  • gerryflap@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The issue is that I miss features when using Epic. Additionally, games from Epic are not visible in my steam library which leads to me forgetting that they even exist. And also nobody uses it, so there’s no community feeling like I have with all my Steam friends.

    I don’t mind it for free games though. If they give me a game for free, they deserve me using their launcher for that game haha.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t understand, it’s ok if the extra app you need to run is Steam, it’s not ok if it’s Epic!

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