It’s interesting that when a company fires a bunch of employees just to increase quarterly profit, the employees no longer feel any duty to keep the company secrets. Which hurts company profits even more.
Good.
Is this a secret though?
No, it’s one of those things everyone assumes or guesses. When it’s confirmed by someone by name that has insider knowledge, the theory carries a lot more weight. Enough to alter stock prices, if it’s damning enough. Or in this case further hurt public perception, which hurts revenue.
Thanks for reminding me to login and collect my free game.
I think valve does same too but different approach, they just don’t hire anyone for keeping paychecks for themselves
I wouldn’t mind more competition but there’s literally no reason to use egs over valve.
An example is instead of having a better review system than steam’s basic good or bad they could of had a good, maybe, bad then had separate reviews for reviewing specific patches or something. But no the CEO said reviews are bad for devs LOL.
On top of that he’s been vocal about being anti Linux and is full of garbage hot takes. And it really says a lot when he lays off staff that are part for Fortnite’s $1.1 billion made
EGS isn’t competing with Steam because Timmy is on record saying his customers are devs and publishers. The rest of us are just pay piggies who should be happy to give money to him.
I have so many free games from epic, but absolutely nothing is interesting to me.
I dont even want the free games, they can keep their grifty service.
Oh hey it’s me
I collected the free games almost religiously for maybe a couple of years, mostly so I had something of a backup library in case something terrible happened to Steam
I stopped after realising I was literally only interacting with that store literally to collect the games, I don’t think I put a single minute into any of them
This is me.
Every year there’s one free game that interests me. Otherwise eventually I’m going to give my Epic account to one of my nephews/nieces.
I did get to play death stranding and both turnip boy games, which were both good. Also I played ghost wire Tokyo and Calypso protocol and found out they weren’t for me. Whoever did the environmental design for Calypso protocol deserves an award though- it’s all gorgeous. The actual game and story are dull as fuck.
Calypso protocol
Callisto Protocol?
Caliban Protocol?
LMAO yes
My friends and I have gotten a shitload of time in our free copies of Gloomhaven.
Other than that not so much. And the Linux support is WAY fiddlier.
Reminder: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has defended child pornography, saying that stopping it is “gatekeeping”.
ITT: pedo defenders
Man, you really need to have something to back it up when you say shit like this; it’s just good practice. This is the quote.
I get free Epic games from Prime Gaming, but I refuse to redeem them on principle. You couldn’t pay me to use Epic, or even give them an inkling that I support them.
I considered it briefly when they launched, and then they pulled the bullshit of game exclusivity on PC, which is why I left consoles behind. Because of that, I’ll never purchase from them.
1st paragraph - a mirror. As if I’m writing this.
2nd paragraph - even tho I hate exclusivity that they have established, it is not primary reason why I would never use EGS. For me, primary one would be them having a downright crap launcher. The rest is just more reasons to skip using EGS.
Well no shit, 3 years of Epic have over 300 games haven’t spent a dime on their platform. Games I really want and willing to spend money goes to Steam.
I dont have quite as many, but I only spent about 5 dollars on a dlc for cities skyline. That is the extent I have spent on egs. Steam on the other hand…
“Marginally profitable.” Profit is profit, and their end goal of giving people a library to drive sales has worked.
Competition is good, for end consumers, but not a chance I’m going to be using EGS. They had no interest in making things better for consumers, especially with trying to create exclusivity in PC gaming.
Its existence and with Gog they offer an alternative to steam if steam bans a game and to prevent its theoretical rise to evil after gaben dies.
Bad logic on “profit is profit”.
Opportunity cost is huge here.
It’s not even that EGS is terrible, it’s that Steam is much better
Its also that EGS is terrible.
The most recent “feature” they added that made a difference, was the ability to view my own library.
8(?) Years after launch it still operates like a prototype I’d cobble together in an afternoon
Plus we all know that if EGS ever achieved market dominance, they’d enshittify in no time.
That was surely always the plan right. Lure users with good prices and free games, grow the platform, then extract profit.
But the plan didn’t work, and so after all this time they’re still stuck on “best behaviour” mode trying to lure users who aren’t coming.
100%
The plan was just to keep throwing money until they trampled the ecosystem and came out on top, well this didn’t work for shit.
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“All platforms” uh huh sure yep
I use it for Alan wake and I use gog for cyberpunk because I got a better price for it on gog.
Also I still have to run everything through steam because neither of those have controller support that actually works.
That’s one of the biggest issues I have. They don’t even have basic functions like controller support.
Ridiculous.
Even the freebies that I want to play, I almost never play through Epic, and usually wait until I get another copy on Steam. The overall experience of playing a game through Epic is just… bleugh.
I think I’ve only completed one game on Epic, Layers of Fear 2. The other stuff I’ve played has essentially been like playing a demo, to see if it’s worth adding to my Steam wishlist. That’s how subtractive to the enjoyment of gaming Epic is.
I also just dislike their practice of exclusivity and feel uncomfortable supporting it with my wallet. At least with Ubisoft, EA and Rockstar, it’s only their own games they wall off like that, and they almost always have a Steam-connected version so there’s at least the illusion of having everything in one place. Epic is a black hole. I don’t even remember the games that have been or are still exclusive there, because I just never encounter any information about them apart from occasional news articles about how unprofitable they’ve been even after X-number of years. It’s kinda sad, for the devs who work hard on something for years and 8 people play the fucker.
Heh i got Satisfactory during the Epic Exclisivity Deal there and bought it again when it got to steam, maybe a bit stupid but man, i hate Epic Games
I used it for Mechwarrior because it was exclusive. Never ended up playing it because my computer was a bit glitchy at the time. Now that I’ve upgraded the computer, I would rather play the games I have on steam rather than install epic for one game.
