I have zero experience with epic or gog, but steam got incredibly bad lately. It’s not uncomon for it to consume 2 entire CPU cores just by animating some store page background.
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bouh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Epic is the worst of the 3 platforms for a user. It is a drm like steam, but with less games on it, and even less optimized (so even more wasted resources and time loading useless advertising).
Steam has it that is makes game run on Linux smoothly, and the biggest library of games. Gog is drm free. Epic has absolutely nothing a user may want, except for free games so that you are now captive of their shitty platform.
deafboy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
bouh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Steam has always been rather bad on performances, but epic somehow managed to do worse.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This. Steam also offers reviews, achievements, workshop, communities, groups, streaming, etc, etc
Chriswild@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Epic doesn’t have to be as good as Steam; it has to be better than Steam. People don’t up and leave platforms they like for new platforms for no reason. Epic can take a smaller cut on games but if that doesn’t carry to the end user why should I care.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At this point, I don’t know if Epic can get better than Steam in the ways that matter simply because they are clearly trying very hard to gain a dominant market position in ways that make it seem like they would abuse such a position, while Valve has had that dominant position for decades without abusing it. Valve is one of the few companies I trust these days. That trust is Valve’s to lose, not any other competitor’s to gain, though I am open to other adjacent providers (like I’ve got an xbox game pass sub, a ps5, and switch).
pendulum_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So much this!