I mean, the Epic Store exists. Well, not on Linux. And it’s missing a lot of features the other storefronts have.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Shit I really like GOG as it’s the only competition to steam
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Epic exists on Linux to the same degree gog does: heroic launcher.
aramova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also, fuck Epic and the ass they rode in on.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I liked when they made Jill of a Jungle, Unreal, and One Must Fall 2097
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yes yes, bitch eating crackers and all that.
But can we maybe focus on what they actually are shit at (which is a lot) rather than manufacturing virtue for other companies?
TheEntity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not nearly the same degree. GOG sells actual Linux games with no 3rd party software necessary to play them. The same cannot be said about EGS, one simply cannot launch an EGS game in an officially supported way.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
For a very limited subset of games, they provide linux binaries. For the rest? You are up a creek and in the realm of “Figure it out”. Which… is generally the Heroic Launcher (or Lutris for a subset) which puts you in the same boat as Epic.
If you insist upon saying one store is more virtuous than the other… okay? I personally don’t like defending companies but you do you.
But for the vast majority of games? Epic and GoG are in the same category as basically everything but Steam. And both are in the exact same category regarding launchers and download services since they both heavily rely on the Heroic Launcher (which is awesome).
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GOG sells actual Linux games with no 3rd party software necessary to play them.
Ah yes, stand-alone binary installers that work only on a very tiny set of Linux versions because they rely on specific version of system libraries, sometimes contain distribution-specific hardcoded paths, and so on. I especially like those older Linux ports that exclusively target Nvidia drivers because why would anyone just have coded to the OpenGL standard back then…
We have Flatpak Runtimes and Steam Linux Runtimes since years. CD Project / GOG can’t even be bothered to pick these existing open source solutions.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The approved competitor to a monopoly is… *checks notes* a wannabe monopoly that’s trying to buy their way into the position by providing less for the customer and instead bribing the publishers for exclusivity?
No, thanks. I would rather stick with the existing monopoly than reward Epic’s anticompetitive and anti-consumer bullshit.
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, I never said that they are good, just that they exist.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.
amstafff@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wdym I’m playing several games on arch through epic games since I got them for free
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shit I really like GOG as it’s the only competition to steam
There are plenty of competing PC game online stores, it’s just that they all suck monkey balls when you’re not using Windows. Microsoft is currently using their old monopolist playbook and release Blizzard games to the fucking Microsoft Store and Game Pass and not a single 3rd party store.
And don’t forget that the other publisher-owned storefronts like EA’s and Ubisoft’s are also still alive. They suck hard but they exist and apparently they do well enough to continue to be around.
Steam is the only PC games store that fights Microsoft’s Windows monopoly. GOG Galaxy has been written using the Qt framework. Making a Linux version of an existing Qt application is relatively easy (at least compared to a full port). Do that, integrate umu-Launcher for Windows games, bundle everything up and release GOG Galaxy on Flathub. Boom, done. But they don’t do that despite their massive pile of Witcher and Cyberpunk money.
So plenty of competition exists but if you happen to not be Windows-exclusive, everyone but Steam is bad.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There’s also itch.io, which is great. It does have a lack of game selection, but we’re comparing it to GOG, so…
stardust@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah itch lacks the bigger titles GOG has been able to pull.
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
At the same time, GOG hasn’t been able to pull many, and Itch has much better indie coverage, including for the higher-end indies, due to its much smaller royalty fee.
stardust@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
GOG has been closer to offering the more mainstream indies and big studio titles that interest me. I guess itch library doesn’t really appeal as often to my tastes.