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Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by GutsBerserk@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.

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[-] silentknyght@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bad take.

I'll remind you that Steam needs SOME competition in order to actually get better, and I can't think of anyone else able to do it (Microsoft has kinda already tried and failed). Remember when Steam suddenly addressed long-standing issues with the client and storefront a couple years ago? That was because the EGS appeared.

I'll also remind young folks that the Internet was extremely negative regarding steam when it was new. Yes, I've been on Steam for 20+ years.

Tldr: EGS is fine. Relax.

Edit: clarity

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 21 points 11 months ago

Also a bad take. Competition is good, and a proper competitor to steam would benefit us all, but users don't have to support them just on the basis of them being competitors.

I agree "EGS is bad because I want only steam" is silly, but if it's a worse experience for the individual user or if they perceive it's involved in non consumer friendly practices, it's perfectly normal they are not supported.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I fully support a good competitor to Steam like GOG. It may be less convenient than Steam but it has one key feature that no other shop has: no DRM.

[-] 7112@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

This is the best way forward. If GOG had more games it would change the industry. More companies need to partner with them.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

GOG still has that niche of the "old games." Can't think of anywhere else I could get DOS games from my childhood that also come with patches and updates to make them work on modern systems.

[-] Jako301@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Games that are sold on GOG are usually also DRM free on steam. Sometimes the steamworks DRM is required, but that's so easy to trick that the games can still be considered DRM free.

The only thing GOG does is pre-filtering for DRM free only.

[-] HKayn@dormi.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Do not rely on that.

Case in point: Arkham City.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Except that Valve revamped Steam loads of times before anyone else was even competing with them. The biggest was when The Orange Box launched and they had added better Friends support as well as literally all the community features and achievement systems. EGS didn't launch until 2018. Origin didn't launch until 2011.