I ended up deleting my Epic account. It was full of free games that I had never played once and had no interest to.
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I spent ages collecting the free games. Then the Steam Deck came along and I changed my PC to Linux. Then I repurchased all the games I wanted to play on Steam anyway. Then I don't have to set up Epic or worry about save game sync.
Same except the push for me was in my "degoogling" process. Epic wouldn't accept an email address from Proton. They said I needed a "legitimate email" and then locked my account till I provided one. That was the push I needed to dump them completely. Truly, I haven't even thought about missing it since leaving.
My epic account uses disroot email, 0 issues. My wife has a mailo email.
I don't understand why they wouldn't accept it. Haven't had that issue anywhere else. Even went back and forth with customer service through my old email and over telephone and got nowhere.
I am gaming happily on Linux though. Using both Epic and Steam. ๐
I know Epic can be set up. I just found it easier to spend a bit of money rather than time to set up Epic. I've distro hopped a bunch of times and needed to reinstall Steam OS on my Deck once. It's just more convenient to get all my games on Steam.
Heroic games is the easy way to do Epic Games Store. I actually prefer it to Steam for my library management. Somewhere along the line Steam became a bit of a resource hog.
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Epic gives away good free games from to time. While Steam is my primary, I still hop into Epic to play my free copies of Hell Let Loose and Fall Guys from time to time.
Yeah they periodically lose private information, such as adresses, email adresses and credit card information. But that's the price you have to pay to get a "free" game.
Don't have yo put in credit card info for the free games iirc
I could see that as being an annoyance if I had given them any payment information. I was already caught up in a major data leak that exposed my SSN and address over a decade ago, so my shit is out there and all I can do is monitor at this point anyways.
I can get the same games from the high seas for the same price and not provide Epic with an active account with which to entice investors.
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Did them a favor.
My most played games lately are Vintage Story and Factorio. Both bought directly from the developers through their own website.
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G*mers when you don't use their monopolistic service: ๐ก
I've never had issues with getting refunds through steam. I've never successfully gotten a refund through epic.
you can enjoy your free games if you want, but it isn't a better service and pretending otherwise is delusional.
Which one is bringing exclusives to PC and working against Linux gaming?
Which one killed competition with anti consumer practices in the 2000's?
Which one popularised micro transactions?
Which one popularised loot boxes and gambling?
Which one popularised the current "Sell now, fix later" model
Which one bricks older titles because of it's DRM requirements
(The answer is Steam btw, I know I'll need to spell it out for G*mers)
I'll add they only offer refunds because the EU forced them and that at the time even EA offered better refunds, I don't know now because I am detached from gaming these days.
It's not even the worst. If Epic goes down, you have lost everything. If Steam goes down you have lost everything. If Gog goes down you have lost nothing (because you have a backup I hope).
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Which one killed competition with anti consumer practices in the 2000's?
Epic has even more anti-consumer practices.
Which one popularised micro transactions?
Does Epic ban micro transactions?
Which one popularised loot boxes and gambling?
None of this available on EGS either?
Which one popularised the current "Sell now, fix later" model
"The service that was around first did these things that the service that came later is also doing, that makes the service that came later better for some reason!"
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Referring to Epic I presume?
No. Obviously. I know G*mers aren't smart but I'm clearly talking about Steam.
Dude can't even spell "Gamers" and is complaining other people aren't smart...
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What, no love for Prime Games (or whatever it's called now)?
No love for Amazon
I have 0 love for Amazon, but...it's better than going to Walmart
And my GOG account has 150 free games in it from them sooooooo ๐
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I only ever shop on Epic if the discount is too large to ignore, which happens very infrequently.
I've collected so many free games I will never touch though.
I have been doing it for years now. Every thursday. I think im somewhere near 300 games now? Games I've purchased from them myself is 2, lol. The amount of free games I've played is like 5 and normally very briefly. I don't think the model is working.
Not even created an account. It doesn't run natively on Linux and I just don't care to even bother running it
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