My most played games lately are Vintage Story and Factorio. Both bought directly from the developers through their own website.
Fuck I miss just having the game’s executable.
That’s gog, itch, or epic
Definitely not Epic? No idea where you got that. They downstall like Steam does. GOG and Itch, yes. I got Micro Mages off of itch and its a cool game.
A lot of games on Epic don’t have DRM (like GoG it’s developer opt in) so you can just launch the exe without opening Heroic
Same is true for games on Steam if the developer decides not to use Steam integration (some features like achievements are ok I think). For example Noita doesn’t need Steam running, you can just copy the folder to another machine AFAIK
also there are Steam emulators
I have plenty of epic free games. And I prefer to install fitgirl version of a game rather than epic’s one.
I don’t think I’ve ever installed any of those free games.
What is fitgirl
she is a repacker of pirated games.
why pack again? lossless compression?
Very high compression rate. Filesize of download can be less than half of the original in some cases.
I hate Epic Games simply on the principle that Tim Sweeney is an asshole. He despises Steam and yet he can’t make a better storefront. He sues Google and Apple so he can drive his little exotic cars around the block. Also he hates Linux gamers for whatever reason. No problem man, I don’t want to play Shitnite anyway.
Imagine having Fortnite money and all you can deliver is the EGS. Yeah free games are cool I guess but it’s like the laziest approach regarding actually engineering and developing a solution
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Fuck Epic, provide better service or fuck off. Using money to kill competition means they will turn around as soon as they can.
Don’t care that much as long as I get my free games. Also, nobody has the money to kill Valve. Maybe MS, but I doubt even they are ready to spend that much
They don’t have to kill Valve to appease publishers and sign shop-exclusive deals, making the PC gaming experience worse for everyone.
Whoever is still signing exclusivity deals with Epic hasn’t been paying attention.
“Using money to kill competition” you said though
At least they didn’t say the Microsoft Store
G*mers when you don’t use their monopolistic service: 😡
I’ve never had issues with getting refunds through steam. I’ve never successfully gotten a refund through epic.
you can enjoy your free games if you want, but it isn’t a better service and pretending otherwise is delusional.
Which one is bringing exclusives to PC and working against Linux gaming?
Which one killed competition with anti consumer practices in the 2000’s?
Which one popularised micro transactions?
Which one popularised loot boxes and gambling?
Which one popularised the current “Sell now, fix later” model
Which one bricks older titles because of it’s DRM requirements
(The answer is Steam btw, I know I’ll need to spell it out for G*mers)
I’ll add they only offer refunds because the EU forced them and that at the time even EA offered better refunds, I don’t know now because I am detached from gaming these days.
It’s not even the worst. If Epic goes down, you have lost everything. If Steam goes down you have lost everything. If Gog goes down you have lost nothing (because you have a backup I hope).
If Steam goes down I have no problems torrenting games I’ve already paid for
Which one killed competition with anti consumer practices in the 2000’s?
Epic has even more anti-consumer practices.
Which one popularised micro transactions?
Does Epic ban micro transactions?
Which one popularised loot boxes and gambling?
None of this available on EGS either?
Which one popularised the current “Sell now, fix later” model
“The service that was around first did these things that the service that came later is also doing, that makes the service that came later better for some reason!”
Imagine being so Stockholmed that you miss the point that bad.
Imagine being so full of yourself that you think saying nothing has any value.
Fun fact: the term “Stockholm syndrome” originates from a hostage situation in which the authorities did not seem to care about the safety of the hostages at all, they regularly put the hostages in danger and the hostage takers were frequently trying to protect the hostages from the actions of the authorities.
In light of that, the hostages having more empathy towards their captors makes perfect sense. However ignorant people who did not understand the details of the event coined the term “Stockholm syndrome” instead of actually listening to the hostages or trying to understand a different point of view.Your use of the term feels very appropriate.
Referring to Epic I presume?
ah yes the famous monopoly, the epic game store
No. Obviously. I know G*mers aren’t smart but I’m clearly talking about Steam.
Dude can’t even spell “Gamers” and is complaining other people aren’t smart…
Epic gives away good free games from to time. While Steam is my primary, I still hop into Epic to play my free copies of Hell Let Loose and Fall Guys from time to time.
I can get the same games from the high seas for the same price and not provide Epic with an active account with which to entice investors.
Yeah they periodically lose private information, such as adresses, email adresses and credit card information. But that’s the price you have to pay to get a “free” game.
Don’t have yo put in credit card info for the free games iirc
I could see that as being an annoyance if I had given them any payment information. I was already caught up in a major data leak that exposed my SSN and address over a decade ago, so my shit is out there and all I can do is monitor at this point anyways.
I ended up deleting my Epic account. It was full of free games that I had never played once and had no interest to.
I spent ages collecting the free games. Then the Steam Deck came along and I changed my PC to Linux. Then I repurchased all the games I wanted to play on Steam anyway. Then I don’t have to set up Epic or worry about save game sync.
Same except the push for me was in my “degoogling” process. Epic wouldn’t accept an email address from Proton. They said I needed a “legitimate email” and then locked my account till I provided one. That was the push I needed to dump them completely. Truly, I haven’t even thought about missing it since leaving.
My epic account uses disroot email, 0 issues. My wife has a mailo email.
I don’t understand why they wouldn’t accept it. Haven’t had that issue anywhere else. Even went back and forth with customer service through my old email and over telephone and got nowhere.
I am gaming happily on Linux though. Using both Epic and Steam. 👍
I know Epic can be set up. I just found it easier to spend a bit of money rather than time to set up Epic. I’ve distro hopped a bunch of times and needed to reinstall Steam OS on my Deck once. It’s just more convenient to get all my games on Steam.
Heroic games is the easy way to do Epic Games Store. I actually prefer it to Steam for my library management. Somewhere along the line Steam became a bit of a resource hog.
Did them a favor.
Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGR8ebzklkA
Clementine or Heidi?
Nah…
Clementine
Heidi
What, no love for Prime Games (or whatever it’s called now)?
No love for Amazon
I have 0 love for Amazon, but…it’s better than going to Walmart
And my GOG account has 150 free games in it from them sooooooo 😅
