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ono@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Epic 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.

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