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What is the catch with Epic Games' free games? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by airikr@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Like what the title says. There's always a catch unless it's FOSS. So, what is the catch with them giving games for free that you can keep forever? What will the developers of the games get as a thank you?

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[–] who@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Heroic Games Launcher doesn't change the code in the game executable itself, so yes, it is still an issue when using Heroic.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Install Heroic via Flatpak and use Flatseal so you decide what it gets access to.

[–] who@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Flatpak permissions are famously coarse, and its sandboxing mechanism is weak and full of holes. It can be useful for guarding against damage caused by programming mistakes, but I would not recommend it to anyone wanting protection from adversarial software.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What would be your recommended way to run the Epic Launcher?

[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I do not recommend running Epic software at all.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But imagine if someone did want to use it, what would be your recommended approach? You seem quite knowledgeable in this area and I'm sure we could all learn something.

[–] who@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

You might want to read my other comments elsewhere on this post.

Please keep in mind that no matter what technical measures you take, accepting Epic's "free" games requires agreeing to their terms and conditions, which they can change after you get the games. I really don't recommend it.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Even without that, I don't think a game running on their own wine prefix can interact with your Steam running on Linux system directly.

It would be pretty amazing if this godforsaken company only looked at Linux to fuck us like that.