Comment on The Outer Worlds w/ All DLC free until 26 Dec 2023 4PM UTC

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  meh, free is free.

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  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol, based.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  True. I have 237 games claimed on there, but only 14 have over an hour play time. $0 spent on that store.

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  • kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    just pirate at that point

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or… Just claim the games and play them if you ever feel like it and don’t if you don’t?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yup, I think I’ve downloaded like 5 and actually started like 3 (and haven’t put more than an hour on any). I’ve bought far more games on Steam that I already have from Epic than I’ve actually played on EGS.

        It takes like 30 sec of my time to click on the link and checkout on my phone. If it took much more than that, I wouldn’t bother.

        I time know why I still bother. I guess somewhere deep down in my soul I think there’s a chance EGS will stop sucking, and at that point I’ll be glad to have the library. That haven’t happened in the year or two that I’ve been claiming games, but I still do it anyway. Eh, whatever.

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      • kattenluik@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s such a waste of time and sanity to have to keep up with claiming.

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• Mawkey@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Way too big of a price to pay.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh fuck off you big baby, we don’t need people like you in every discussion about free games on EGS, we get it, you’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly, go bitch somewhere else and let people enjoy the free games.

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  • sparr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly

    And you can tell that by how much they complain(ed) about Itch, GoG, Desura, and other competitors, right?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, EGS doesn’t get a pass for sucking just because it’s an underdog. The store experience sucks, the company behind it actively avoids supporting the Steam Deck (valid business reasons imo, but it still sucks), and they have stupid exclusives that just delay when I get to play games on my platform of choice.

      EGS sucking doesn’t make Steam good, it just means EGS sucks.

      While GOG’s client kinda sucks, it’s better than EGS and their games are DRM-free. So I’ll give them a pass on their client kinda sucking and not porting to my preferred platform, Linux. I’d just GOG in a heartbeat if they gave half as much attention to Linux as Steam (I don’t want much, just officially endorse Heroic and/or port Galaxy.

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I keep my fingers crossed that one day GoG Galaxy will be given a developer or two instead of a single untrained monkey. I like the concept, I like some of the features and love that I can view all my libraries in one place, but man it’s so janky and there’s no support from the company at all and they don’t fix issues or work on anything new for it and what they do add is done at a glacial pace.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They sure do bitch about EA and Ubisoft having their own launcher!

      Funny that the services you mentioned don’t try to play in the exact same playground as Steam, contrary to EGS.

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    • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those stores don’t challenge the monopoly, so they don’t trigger anyone. They get praised but you’ll have a hard time finding anyone who regularly uses them, let alone as their main gaming platform.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think out of those only GoG can be called, by any stretch, a competitor

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly

    You mean Tim Sweeny, the guy preaching about monopolistic practices while performing anticompetitive actions in a thinly-veiled attempt to create his own monopoly?

    It’s more morally acceptable to pirate games than take free games off Epic Games Store. At least in the former case, I’m not supporting their campaign by being a statistic they can boast about.

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Actually if you hated EGS so much you should take these free games. Each free game costs them money.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        EGS isn’t paying per download, they’re paying the developer an upfront cost to make the game a free offer regardless of how many copies get downloaded.

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure, give them your data instead of just pirating the game. It’s free either way. Except one way you don’t have to give them data on your life.

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  • Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    People bitch way too much about EGS. Yeah, we get it, it’s not steam and the dude that runs it pissed in your Cheerios once. Claim the free fucking game or don’t.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s even worse when you’re old enough to remember the same kind of people that were complaining about Valve creating Steam and forcing them to download it in order to play their games and then complaining that non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed and having to download part of the game at a time when bandwidth sucked… The same kind of people were saying they would forever boycott Steam but today they’re made that someone tried to break the status quo again.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Huh, I actually never used Steam until it came to Linux. I switched back in 2010 or so, and before that I either downloaded games directly from the dev or bought disks.

        I don’t understand what was wrong with that model. I remember buying Minecraft directly from the website back in 2012 or so, and I did the same with Factorio (2014?). I remember playing Starcraft 2 with its own launcher, which again I got through the website. The same is true for League of Legends.

        I don’t get why everything has to be through some launcher, though I do appreciate what Steam is doing for the Linux community, so they have earned my business (if it wasn’t for Steam, I wouldn’t play nearly as many games). But from an overall gaming perspective, I agree that having such a dominant platform isn’t good, and I would probably buy from other stores if they offered a decent experience, but I’m not going to jump through hoops to play games.

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      • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed

        The problem was/is their policy of allowing the non-Valve games to also require their own storefront launcher alongside Steam.

        There was that one dark period of "Games For Windows Live" on Steam, but those issues are pretty rare nowadays.

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  • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Um… No, I’d bitch about it being on Steam too. I just like actually owning my games.

    Also, wow, fucking chill, dude.

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    • Rose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s DRM-free on Epic.

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      • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So it doesn’t require the EGS Launcher?

        If it does, then that’s still a very strong form of DRM.

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  • SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You sad excuse of a human being

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ♥️

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  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was almost with you until you said that dumb shit in the second half.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks for sharing

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s free

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