Comment on Dredge is free to claim for the next 24 hours on Epic

_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  On one hand: I also hate Epic.

  On the other: It’s free. When did everyone start bitching even about the free games? Claiming all the free games and never actually using the store, if anything, hurts Epic. So do it.

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Don’t bother trying to understand it. They’ll tell you it’s because Epic is “anti-consumer”, while ignoring anything Valve does that’s shitty. The same people will post in other threads how there’s “no good billionaires”, then come to this community and post shit like “all hail our savior, Lord GabeN”.

    In truth, it boils down mostly to them seeing PC gaming as Valve’s fiefdom, and Epic is aggressively trying to force their way into the market, which upsets them. The fact they feel comfortable putting all of PC gaming into the hands of a single mega corporation is insane, because when Valve inevitably goes under, we’re going to lose a lot of gaming history all at once. Not to mention, it was Steam that was responsible for the advent of not owning the games you buy, something I consider to be one of the worst things to ever happen to gaming.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not to mention, it was Steam that was responsible for the advent of not owning the games you buy, something I consider to be one of the worst things to ever happen to gaming.

      Hate to break it to you, but you didn’t own your games even when they were still sold physically. The standard liscence agreement for software as we know it today started in the 80’s, and it was mostly because of Microsoft.

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