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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It was never about any of that. It’s that Valve is a trustworthy company so far and epic is not. The only way at this point I would buy from epic store is if they offered DRM free copies.

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Master167@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Even if they offer DRM free copies, I’d use GoG first. The Epic Game Store just doesn’t have the feature parity with GoG or Steam stores.

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EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
They definitely lost sales because of how horrible the user experience was/is, too.

Remember how the store launched without a fucking shopping cart so you had to buy each game as a separate transaction? Pepperidge Farms remembers that Epic isn’t even capable of the most basic of features required for an online store.

Of course, they’ll never get a cent out of me after they pulled that scumbag move of putting games on sale without ever asking the devs - they put games that hadn’t even released at like 50% off!

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Feyd@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m sure it’s about that for some people, but yeah if they ever actually get significant market share they will enshittify so fast it’ll make your head spin. The only thing that has changed is they’ve decided they need to make a bare minimum experience instead of just throwing money around.

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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s why I said DRM free, because I don’t trust them, so I would only buy something if I could take it and use it away from their store forever.
  
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warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Fuck Tim. He’s the reverse-GabeN. NebaG ? 🤣

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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Replace ‘buy’ with ‘download for free’ and ‘launcher’ with ‘unnecessary software after the download completes’, and they might get my attention.

I wasn’t swayed by their ‘free’ games that require their software. I wasn’t swayed when they bought up exclusivity contracts (yarr!). I’m sure as fuck not going to be swayed by the software having the absolute bare-minimum feature set.

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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  I have fully taken advantage of their free games. I just never buy anything on their store. I have hundreds of their free games and a lot of them are awesome games. Anything I want to buy I go through steam or gog.
  
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