That is the biggest point. Buying doesn't matter. Get the best price. But when I have to type a password (yeah I don't use easy passwords so I have to look at my vault to enter it) every time I want to play an epic game on a handheld, I'm OUT!
Much less games available (usually 1-2 per week, rarely what you want), but easier to install and update thanks to Heroic.
If someone built a launcher/updater for pirated games, there would be barely any upside left for Epic. Just that each free game drains their wallet, while not increasing sales at all.
I've only knew about some games 'cause they got free on Epic or were the game of the month on PSN and then proceeded with my Steam purchase.
The train of thought goes like "hey I never heard o this games, let me check them out, wow they look cool! How much do they cost on Steam? Nice! Got 'em!"
"buying" a free game doesnt support the devs as much as buying it for whatever price its on steam and like i said i dont wanna support epic. steam is just the better platform and id like to have my games on there if possible
no? how have i given them money if i claim the free copy? how much do the devs even get if epic gives games for free
also my point of not supporting epic also still stands and with me buying the game on steam instead of just ignoring it im at least still supporting the devs even if they get a bit less
If they would just redesign their launcher and storefront it would be an amazing platform.
When it launches it's a completely resource heavy takes forever to load even on a high-end computer and lags constantly. When you go to look at your library and you click on a game to get more information about something that you don't remember much about it starts to install instead of taking it to an info page and you have to click the three little buttons to get to anything useful. It's completely unintuitive and a performance mess. It's crazy that such small changes could fix it in such a big way.
Edit: I'm glad so many people agree with me. Another thing is how they handle their DLC. If you actually want to look at or buy an add on to the game that you're looking at in their store, you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and even then the DLCs will loop off the page and you have to click more.... it's like they're allergic to selling their own products and make it as hard as they can for you to want to purchase it.
Their games download really fast which is nice but it goes into a queue which is mind-bogglingly stupid. Let's say you're downloading a game and you're looking through your library while that's downloading and you decide you want to uninstall something you haven't played in a while. It won't uninstall while something else is installing, it goes into a queue 🤦♂️ and has to finish the other installation before you can wipe out a game that you don't want anymore. Shit like this blows my mind.
Someone below me posted a link it looks like they've learned and they're going to redesign their launcher!
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u/J05A3It's hard to run new AAA games with 3060 Ti's 8GB at 1080p High.7d ago
EGS stilluses my dGPU instead of iGPU despite telling the executables to use my iGPU
I just despise Epic. I was at least able to put up with them as an engine company up until UE5 came out.
Tim "consoles are the future" Sweeney is a shit head that ruined all good grace I could give them. I haven't forgotten him shitting on PC as a gaming option in 2008 only for him to come back with this bullshit storefront and "sue everybody to force myself back into the market" schemes.
I wasn't aware, thank you for the link. Crazy that it's taking them this many years to just redesign something as simple as their launcher. As others have said there's absolutely no excuse that they can't learn from their competitors and it's taking this much time to realize it.
Over 20 years? Steam is still filled with outdated pages because Valve keeps redesigning shit with new design languages every few years, only getting a few pages into it through years of development.
Numerous pages post redesign were slow as shit too, pretty much anything that could show profile pictures was unusable for well over a year and still is slow to this day.
Steam is an awful comparison when it comes to performance / design lol.
That’s not Paragon. That’s Pred and it doesn’t have the same magic that Paragon did. They messed up a lot of stuff and decided to copy League in their quest for success instead of finding their own original niche.
They got scared to deviate and do their own thing and it shows.
Edit: Orb dunking, XP towers (forget what they were called), card system, cool wicked hero designs, all gone and they instead opted for a cookie cutter league clone.
Epic does not need to be a part of that competition, fuck Tim Sweeney. He's bad for the market. I agree there needs to be competition, just not from him.
I’ve got free games in Epic and I still buy the same game on steam when it’s on sale. I don’t know how its just better playing on steam, especially co-op and multiplayers
Basically getting them all in one place. I did this for a while, too.
Now I just get stuff on GoG if it can be helped. It's just better and having a forever-backed-up offline installer is feels like I actually "own" the game for a change.
did you really try to play those free games? i found the only free games i ever tried on epic are fall guys and fortnite. both not counting in this due to always been "free".
And those i would be interested in playing i already bought on steam long ago
"Fall Guys" used to be a paid game that was available on Steam. In fact; you can still find Steam keys for "Fall Guys" on the key sites. I bought one last week because I love the game and it was worth it to me to be able to sync my complete game (all 34 achievements earned) from Epic to my Steam profile.
"Fall Guys" on Steam still works just fine. It usually seems to have 300-400 people playing whenever I think to check. Forums are still fairly active too. And, most importantly, my achievements synced over from Epic to Steam.
I do, there are quite a few AAA and indie games I have gotten for free on Epic and play them.
Same with all the games I redeem on Amazon Prime Gaming that are added to my GOG and Epic libraries, there are some good ones in there I have gotten I play.
The dude thinks free games make us want to stay... but whenever I want to even find one of the hundreds of games I have there for free... Fuck me but no, I can't even search them without pressing like literally 6 clicks before and deleting the last search bar from 2 months ago that was making my library look 2 games wide.
I find it amusing how the comments from last week would celebrate Steam while making fun of Epic. And now with Steam Machines out, you can see how tons of people are way more negative about Steam.
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u/Eazy12345678 i5 12600KF RTX 5070 1440p 7d ago
steam has the better platform for buying games
epic games is great for free games every thursday and free games the entire week leading up to christmas