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Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

I guess that's cool but Epic Games will still be at the bottom of my list of game/app stores that I use.

For context, I've been using a chart of game/app store with scores based on multiple categories and sorting them into a list to keep track of which ones I should be prioritizing. With on how I currently have them rated, the Epic Games Store will go from a 1/10 to a 4/10, which means that it's still at the bottom of my list.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Where's GOG on that chart? How would you compare it to Steam?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Both GOG and Steam are tied near the top of the list with 9/10 scores.

    But I should mention that since the chart was made specifically for my own personal use, it may not be the best for public use (which is why I haven't posted it online anywhere). If I am to have it posted anywhere, I'd want to make some adjustments like giving certain categories more weight and expanding some others, maybe even add more. I probably wont though, as I'm just one person and I know for sure that my own biases will get in the way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Isn't that how all good charts start out? One opinionated person makes a list of what makes sense to them and maybe attaches a methodology for how they arrived at the order or points.

    In my book, GOG would be 10, but I have never purchased a game through them, so it seems they're not perfect after all. I wanna give steam less points cuz they are only dealing in licenses, so besides Gabe & SteamOS, they feel no better than Epic.

    So maybe Steam is a 7 for me, and GOG is only ideally a 10, but in reality I paid them as much as I have Epic ($0).

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I've done it. I've create my website and finished creating the page dedicated to game and app stores. It took longer than I was expecting but it's in a good enough shape that I can fix any issues with it and add some more stuff to it tomorrow. I've also changed how I rated every app store, GOG is now 13/15 and Steam is 12.5/15. Here's the link to the home page. I'm going to bed now.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Dang, awesome list!!

    You made me want to check out rawg.io, but it's throwing a cloudfare error 😅!

    I like how you break out the point categories, but I don't understand what you were doing with the stars (they seem to appear randomly).

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    Also yeah, RAWG has been down for a few days now. There is a possibility that it may shut down soon. From what I understand, it's been almost completely abandoned by it's owners for years now, which is unfortunate because it is a great platform.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (1 child)

    I mentioned it at the top of the page, if you hover your mouse over them (only works on PC from what I remember) you'll get an explanation for that tile. I should probably make that clearer since I did kind of bury that in the paragraph at the top of the page.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I guess your right, I might relearn HTML so I can open another website through neocities. I used to maintain a website under a different name there but I deleted it, thinking that I wouldn't use it again. I would just post it to Odysee (the Youtube alternative) since they have more than just videos but I don't know if they'd allow me to link to websites like Nutaku.

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