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[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Epic paid people for exclusivity in an attempt to force the customer to use its shitty platform. The free games are just bribes to try to get us to use it. And it's still not working very well for them.

Nobody would have complained (well ok, some would have, but few) if they just tried to make a better store than steam and get people to use it that way.

They could still do the free games as a bribe, to get people to check out the store, but the store would actually need to not be garbage. The exclusivity payments really rankled people though.

[-] shneancy@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

i love it when the epic games store flashbangs my eyeballs when i claim the free shit they give out. what an amazing marketing strategy

fr even though it's a very petty thing to complain about it just shows how little care they put into their platform

[-] sandriver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I bought one timed exclusive on Epic (Stranger of Paradise), it left the entire redundant download behind without moving it and devoured 220 GB of my SSD in the process, and I decided I never wanted to use the Epic store again.

I'd love to move to GOG, but then I'd have to go through Lutris, which is currently in the process of crashing constantly for reasons the devs don't fully understand, so RIP to that I guess.

this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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