I get the games on epic but I haven’t Eben bothered playing them because I game exclusively on linux and just have not bothered with lutris / heroic etc. Proton on ste is just effortless and after years of tinkering with wine back in the day I want the simplicity
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Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The one thing I like about them is they recognized why people really wanted to stick with steam: they have a large established library and don’t want to bounce back and forth.
They took that and said “ok we’ll give you free games every week until you have a large library here and won’t want to leave!”
Jokes on them, I now have a large library of completely free games on epic and still use steam for the games I want to buy because I refuse to support their exclusivity bullshit.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Heroic also makes it effortless, but I agree with all your points.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I resolved to never give Epic a dime when I got a popup forcing me to agree to a binding arbitration agreement in order to launch games I already have installed and in my library. It tells me that they think people will have good reasons to sue them in the future.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You can send a snail mail to opt out, which is scummy at best, but technically you can opt out.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t count if it costs money, which mail does.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is what’s known as a dark pattern and is the exact thing the US government is suing Adobe over.
Making service cancellation or opt-out deliberately difficult is exploitative and something that should be illegal. Any company that does it doesn’t deserve a cent from you.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You don’t need a subscription like Prime to get the free games? I was under the impression you do.
philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hell no
Crikeste@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Well that’s fuckin’ sick lmao
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are even more free games from prime for the epic store, but the epic store has it’s own free games too that don’t require any subscription to anything.
unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Wait now it appears I’m the one out of the loop. When did that start?
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No idea, I only noticed it a couple weeks ago. The prime gaming redemption site where I used to get stuff for lost ark now has a listing for free games, does amazon games, epic games, and gog games. The epic games are different ones than the free ones directly from epic.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They were giving them away to anyone who made an epic account.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Can you also launch the games through steam to get features like the overlay and stuff
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I believe you can, I haven’t tried though. The games install like any other and have an .exe you can point to through steam so it would probably just be a matter of having the epic launcher open as well when you go to play.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ah cus I have a faint memory of getting games thru Amazon and launching thru steam but idr if I had the overlay
spread@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Epic feels like a kid’s toy compared to steam imo. Just overall less usable and dumbed down.
Zorque@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, Steam is also very functional and has a ton of support features. Especially for modding. It’s not just stockholm syndrome.