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A reminder to manage your startup apps (lemmy.world)
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[–] Sanguine 16 points 10 months ago (11 children)

I actively avoid it on principle. Same with EA, Ubisoft, and Activision. Buy stuff that aligns with your values and don't cave just because we need to try the shiny new thing.

A few free games every year isn't enough to get me to forgo any of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

"a few free games" it releases a free game every other week basically lol, not that they all are golden eggs but like, that's a lot of games. I never got the avoid on principle argument, if anything only claiming the freebies is taking more from the company then just pretending it doesn't exist

[–] pivot_root 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Epic pays for the freebies on the expectation that X copies will be redeemed. If more people redeem the game than that, they don't pay any extra. If less people redeem the game than they paid for, they overpaid (to the benefit of the developer).

I never got the avoid on principle argument

A bullet point summary of why people dislike Epic:

  • Epic Games' CEO, Tim Sweeny, is an absolute knob.
  • He acts out the role of the messiah coming to save PC gamers from the Steam "monopoly"
  • Epic's actions demonstrate that he wants to monopolise PC gaming
  • Epic has a slide deck (released as part of their Apple lawsuit) that outlines their strategy involving paying influencers to "disrupt organic engagement" in their competitors (specifically, Steam).
  • Epic purchased, gutted, and resold Bandcamp.
  • Epic, as a company, unethically monitises Fortnite by using dark patterns to trick kids into paying for skins.
  • Epic has a tendency to pay for timed exclusivity rights of crowdfunded games as a way to force people onto their platform.
  • Epic support is known to often permanently lock your account when compromised, rather than help get it back.
  • Tencent is a significant shareholder of Epic. (For those that care)

The "avoiding them out of principle" argument comes from people refusing to be a statistic that benefits the company.

[–] rambaroo -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The irony of criticizing epic for wanting to monopolize PC gaming when steam already did that, and did it intentionally from the very beginning as well

[–] pivot_root 2 points 10 months ago

I can't speak for others, but my problem with them isn't that they want to monopolise PC gaming. It's the blatant hypocrisy of trying to paint itself as being good for PC gaming while doing so.

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