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What's up with Epic Games? (self.games)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ElPussyKangaroo to c/games
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I can't seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them...

But for the sake of promoting conversation on Lemmy, what's the issue with Epic, and why should I go for Steam or GoG?

Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent... But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater 🥹... coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents... Hence I've always played bootleg, or pirated games.

TL;DR

What's wrong?

  • Their launcher has a terrible UI AND UX.
  • They make exclusive deals with studios to prevent other platforms from getting games. (Someone mentioned that Steam did the same thing in their infancy. Also, I have another question; why is it ok for Sony and Microsoft to make exclusive games for their consoles but not ok for these PC platforms to do so?)
  • They have been invested in by a Chinese company, Tencent. (Someone mentioned that it isn't that big of a deal, but idk.)
  • They are actively anti-linux for some reason.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Steam's, Epic's, Ubisoft's, Battle.net's and whatever-EA's-thing-is-called-now's sites are also slow as shit. What is it with these platforms which prevent them from loading a webpage in less than 10 seconds?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

By making the entire thing a JavaScript monstrosity with egregious amounts of scripts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, it's likely a lot of tracking. The kind that look where your mouse is and where you scroll and stop etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What tracking does Epic need? "According to our analytics, 100% of users scroll to the free games banner on Tuesday at 5pm CEST, then leave and don't come back for a week. What a mystery!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh thanks for the reminder, I hadn't opened epic so I can scroll down to the free games banner in a while.

[–] suction 1 points 11 months ago

You’d be appalled how much people in corporations earn for making these obvious observations…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In Steam's case, the slowness looks more like a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application (similar to Electron) with a lot of extras bolted on. It's just not built for efficient use of resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The website, outside of the client is still slower than it used to be a good few years ago