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ono@lemmy.ca 11 months agoEpic cons
Let’s also acknowledge that Epic has already been caught scanning and collecting data from files on people’s hard drives that are totally unrelated to Epic or its games.
Ties with Tencent (super anti-consumer chinese state-owned megacorp)
To be more clear about it, Tencent is Epic’s largest investor, so they obviously have a great deal of influence over and access to anything they want from Epic.
Steam cons: Drm
Given that DRM on Steam is entirely up to the game publisher, I don’t think that’s appropriate to list that under “Steam cons”. I’m not even sure that any of my Steam games have DRM.
If you mean that most Steam games expect to find an instance of Steam running, you should know that is not DRM. Also, it’s trivially replaced with the open-source Goldberg Emulator or a similar tool.
Gog I don’t know anything besides the fact that it has drm-free games
Another plus for GOG is that they let you download games with a web browser. No special app required.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Epic was scanning your Steam friends and play history
Valve was scanning your DNS cache
So… Maybe we shouldn’t forget to mention the second one if we’re going to bring up the first one
ono@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Funny how if it was any other company you would call bs and tell them to fuck off with their “trust me bro” attitude.
To me it’s much worse what Valve did, they have no business looking at my browsing history, that’s much more private than the games I own on Steam or the three friends I’ve got on both platforms anyway.