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This is why I don't give Epic and any exclusives on it's store any money. I know 0% of it is going back into making linux gaming better.
I will happily take advantage of their free giveaways, though.
The data they take from you still gives them recurring revenue.
Not if I don't play the games then
If you ever start the launcher it can start stealing data.
I just use the browser to get the games
Nope. Fuck them, don't give them any market share.
I don't give a rats ass about their market share, epics never going to pass steam, but they still have to pay devs to give away those games, and with a lot of the games being indie titles, I'm perfectly happy for some free money to go into a devs pocket
To add on to this: steam was dog shit before epic came along. A lot of people are either unaware or have forgotten how bad steam actually was until it got some real competition
Man, I hadn't heard that rant in years.
And yeah, I remember a lot of people both cheering and hating on EGS when it was first announced. A lot of people were saying it would be as bad as uplay and whatever ea calls their launcher now (it wasn't), or that devs would get screwed by the platform (they didn't).
I also remember a lot of people saying it would be a "steam killer". It wasn't, but even without direct evidence I feel comfortable saying it was a major factor in steam finally making their launcher halfway decent. It still has a ways to go and I still think EGS does some things better (why TF would I ever want to launch directly to the store, valve? Just show me my fucking games)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
NerdCubed's rant in 2015 about Greenlight and such that led to him dropping his Curator page at the time
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
And if you only care about playing your games then Epic's launcher has the shortcut right in your face when it starts while Steam has it in a separate page with a popup in the way.
People can praise Steam all they want, for new it's just bloated as fuck.