Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speaking for myself, if it’s Epic only, it means I have no assurances as a customer that they’re going to keep letting me play the game on Linux. If I bought Alan Wake II, I’m doing so knowing that they don’t support my operating system and could break compatibility with Wine with any random update. If that happens on Steam, I can reasonably expect a refund if it was previously Verified, and because of the verification system, they also have an incentive not to break compatibility. So if I play Alan Wake II some day, it’ll be because it was a free giveaway on Epic, because I’m not paying for that.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now this is a good reason.

    And random note, but I didn’t get a notification for this reply?

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    • Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry I forgot to send it, won’t happen again, boss.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What do you mean, are you on some client that has notifications disabled by default?

        Genuine fediverse noob here.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just save my money and play something else or buy something else. There’s more games than can be played that I’ve never felt like I was losing out by not buying a game from epic.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right but I dont see how its anything but a minor annoyance.

    Like, if the game is really good… What is so bad about installing the epic client? Its like a few minutes.

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some perspective from someone vocally against Epic:

      They entered the market and tried to get their foot in the door not by providing a better service or experience to the consumers, but by being underhanded and anticompetitive while accusing their competition of being underhanded and anticompetitive. Add on that with the fact that their CEO lacks any sort of humility and integrity, and I simply do not trust them to give a single shit about me as a customer.

      While I don’t think Valve is my friend either, they at least have a history of doing things that provide some benefit to me (even if its clearly out of self-interest).

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Epic Games is not publicly traded.

        And TBH their history with Unreal is not that bad. And Valve is already extracting a truckload of money out of us through their percentage cut.

        Carmack is absolutely a character though, lol. I have to wonder how controversial EGS would be without him.

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t have it installed. I claim through the website.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some people prefer not to do business with entities whose business practices they don’t support.

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