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[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have SO many games on Epic because they gave them away over the years but I do not use it. I tried not too long ago to install Red Dead Redemption 2 from the Epic Game Store, which I bought many years ago, on Linux and it was a goddamned nightmare that ended up not working.

I bought it again on Steam when it was on sale and it works flawlessly. I abhor the other stores. They don't have reviews, they don't make things easy to use, and they aren't at all committed to customers whatsoever.

I pulled out my VR index stuff a few months back when my partner's parents were in town because I wanted to show her dad, but one of the little lighthouse thingies shit the bed and wouldn't start up. I've had that kit for about 3 years I think but hadn't used it much because we don't have much space in the house and it sucks hooking it all up and taking it down. Anyway, I pinged Valve about it just to see what it would cost to replace one of the lighthouses, and they just sent me a new one for free, no shipping cost or anything. It was goddamned amazing. There are so very few companies out there like them.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Epic UI and app are truly awful. It helps that you can use Heroic Launcher to install and play games without Epic's own app, but there's still issues with getting some games to run on Linux.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

shocked-pikachu How did I not know about this launcher? Maybe I can refund RDR2 if I can get this to work! Thank you!

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can also use Lutris to install the games, and then add them to your Steam Library.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah that's how I tried it the first time, then I tried just installing in Wine myself, but that didn't work either. Heroic did work though!

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] durduramayacaklar@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Yes but gaming on Linux???

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The last time I bought a game on the EA store (don't know/don't care what the are calling it now, inconsistent branding is another problem) it tried multiple times to trick into buying their subscription instead.

It also refuses to keep me logged in and it asks me to accept a new EULA every time I start my computer.

And the EA isn't even the worst. I hope everyone responsible for Uplay rots in hell.

And I get that people are idealistically attached to Gog but gog can go eat shit too for making me manually go through cloud save files and deciding which of the .dat files is fine to delete because they decided to introduce a ridiculous storage limit one day. Guess which games overstep the quota the most, it's course cd projekts own Witcher games.