• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        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.

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          10 hours ago

          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

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    17 hours ago

    Collecting

    free

    games

    creates

    active

    accounts.

    Fuck Epic, provide better service or fuck off. Using money to kill competition means they will turn around as soon as they can.

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        12 hours ago

        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)

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          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.

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          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).

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          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!”

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              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.

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    I only ever shop on Epic if the discount is too large to ignore, which happens very infrequently.

    I’ve collected so many free games I will never touch though.

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      I have been doing it for years now. Every thursday. I think im somewhere near 300 games now? Games I’ve purchased from them myself is 2, lol. The amount of free games I’ve played is like 5 and normally very briefly. I don’t think the model is working.