/games/ - Games

>>41772
Why the fuck do you or anyone care about stupid shit like this? Video games are free and anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

>>41772
Yeah Epic is actually a pretty cool company. Never understood why Steamoids got so pissy.

>Nerd that actually makes games and helps facillitate people from indies to big studios making games, and anybody to have access to the same tools and knowledge.
<The guy that realized making critically acclaimed games is for suckers when you can make all your money being an e-merchant instead.

>>41774
And Epic's whole beef with Steam, Apple, Google, is they want to get rid of these extremely exorbitant fees these e-merchants ask for which is 30%.

Still not going to install the EGS.

the only reason I made an epic account is to use online fixes

>>41782
Incel lost all meaning it's just a generic slur or an edgy identity at this point. I don't even think most people that are called incels are even incels

>>41784
30-50% of zoomer men are incels, if not more

Epic fucked themselves with the exclusivities, which they were kinda forced to compete against steam de facto monopoly but still got free hate; and the fact that the storefront itself suck, it's bearable today but it still suck compared to gog. At least it's marginally better than steam cause I don't need to use their launcher.

>>41785
Virgin =/= incel. Incel is a specific consumer identity / ideology / market demographic.

>>41784
at this point it's just a synonym for misogynist with how it's used

>>41772
steam has been around for a long fucking time and their software and infrastructure has become pretty darn high quality and useful, both for player and devs (and modders)
they also drove the prices way down
its not surprising people like what they have now and are resistent to change. While I welcome competition (so that devs can get better deals) and think those darn platforms ought to be regulated (so you can transfer games between them, so that their services are interoperable, so you have long term guarantees about your games etc), the material reality is that as long they dont fuck up, most people will be fine staying on their platform because its very convenient, and why bother with changing anything.
And if you really want free games, you dont need a store at all

These big platform are still a problem by becoming a rent extraction service (which varoufakis refer to as neo feudalism), but nationalizing their shit will need a world revolution (although a socialist state could still provide some public operated open sourced mandatory alternative)

What? The Epic launcher sucks ass, it's awful.

>>41772
I dont like the epic launcher because it fucking sucks
Last time I used it they didnt even have a cart feature

Trvke. Steam has been shit for years and I never liked digital storefronts, but more competition there is good.

>>41772
Epic Games is ass because the client almost breaks when you try to use a second hard drive. I plugged in a new hard drive? Well, now Epic Games can't locate the games on the old drive anymore. Is there an option for me to manually locate them? Or to "add" the harddrives to Epic like in Steam? Nope. Best you can do is manually reinstall each game one by one. Pause right after the install, quit the client. Move the files into the directory again, then reopen the client again. Then redo for each game. Its the little stuff like this that they never bothered to fix that makes it insufferable

>>41801
>>41803
Steam and EGS literally fulfill the same purpose.
Buy Game
Click to Run game

You just masquerade behind muhh reviews that no one takes seriously and muhh profile customization
Just admit that Steam is Facebook but for incel virgin losers who need a sense of pride and connection that EGS won't give them

>>41785
Source?

Anybody play no mercy?

>>41833
I'm still not going to use egs

>>41774
Epic's app is dogshit compared to steam

>>41854
Like anon said, it just starts the damn game. It's funny, you can still add and buy EA and Ubisoft games in Steam, but you still have to install their app stores to play their games. So when you add their games to steam, when you launch, they just launch Origin and Uplay and you have launch the game a second time in those apps. Only thing could about Steam is the mod manager shit, how you can subscribe to mods, and get automatic updates to the mods as well as the game. Most mods these days only upload to Steam workshop so that's a big incentive to buy on Steam, but that only applies to games with mods.

That default Steam behavior of always telling you what your friends are playing is pretty weird. I'm sure there is a way to disable that right? But it's strange it's the default setting. Imagine if Netflix pushed non-stop notifications about what your friends are currently watching.

>>41854
How does Epic's app deter you from buying the game and launching it via a double click

>>41796
the quality of launcher barely affects the gaming experience though, unless they have some bullshit where the shortcut on your desktop can't simply launch the game without fucking around in the launcher menu first
>>41843
not the same as being an incel, i've never approached a woman but had multiple approach ME back in my school days
furthermore it specifies "in person" when plenty of zoomers exclusively meet romantic prospects through online dating

>>41833
>he think anyone cares about community features rather than good software, convenience, usability and qol features
lmao what a fucking retard