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What's up with Epic Games? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/games@lemmy.world
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I can't seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them...

But for the sake of promoting conversation on Lemmy, what's the issue with Epic, and why should I go for Steam or GoG?

Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent... But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater ๐Ÿฅน... coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents... Hence I've always played bootleg, or pirated games.

TL;DR

What's wrong?

  • Their launcher has a terrible UI AND UX.
  • They make exclusive deals with studios to prevent other platforms from getting games. (Someone mentioned that Steam did the same thing in their infancy. Also, I have another question; why is it ok for Sony and Microsoft to make exclusive games for their consoles but not ok for these PC platforms to do so?)
  • They have been invested in by a Chinese company, Tencent. (Someone mentioned that it isn't that big of a deal, but idk.)
  • They are actively anti-linux for some reason.
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[โ€“] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

A con for GOG is their site is slow as fuck. And god forbid you want to go back to a previous page, you'll likely lose where you were looking 9 times out of ten. Especially so on mobile.

Pros: Can be the only place you can get old games that would've been unavailable otherwise

The older games are often really really cheap, especially during sales

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gog also seemingly no 2fa other than an faq page with instructions that cannot be followed.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I always get 2FA'd on GoG for an emailed code

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you remember how to configure it? Last I checked I went through every account and settings page on the store site and seemingly separate customer service log in and no clear way to set it up.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Steam's, Epic's, Ubisoft's, Battle.net's and whatever-EA's-thing-is-called-now's sites are also slow as shit. What is it with these platforms which prevent them from loading a webpage in less than 10 seconds?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sadly, it's likely a lot of tracking. The kind that look where your mouse is and where you scroll and stop etc.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What tracking does Epic need? "According to our analytics, 100% of users scroll to the free games banner on Tuesday at 5pm CEST, then leave and don't come back for a week. What a mystery!"

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    In Steam's case, the slowness looks more like a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application (similar to Electron) with a lot of extras bolted on. It's just not built for efficient use of resources.

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