▲ 115 ▼ Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6% (www.eteknix.com) submitted 10 months ago by commander@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world 26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (4 children) Epic is the store where I redeem games I will never play. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children) I already do that on Steam and itch.io, though, is it really worth it to add a third launcher to the pile that doesn't even support Linux? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tekdeb@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago To me it's alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG. I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time. To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 10 months ago I view it as a backup in case I ever get banned or locked out of my account from Steam or Steam has a major outage. At least I have Epic as a backup. It costs me nothing except opening it once every week and adding it to my library. I wouldn’t be that upset if anything happened to my Epic account though. I have zero attachment to them. permalink fedilink source parent [–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 point 9 months ago* Supposedly I'm up to over 400 games on Epic without any purchases through the platform AFAIK and I've probably played like 10 of them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] flameleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children) I already do that on Steam and itch.io, though, is it really worth it to add a third launcher to the pile that doesn't even support Linux? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tekdeb@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago To me it's alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG. I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time. To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 10 months ago I view it as a backup in case I ever get banned or locked out of my account from Steam or Steam has a major outage. At least I have Epic as a backup. It costs me nothing except opening it once every week and adding it to my library. I wouldn’t be that upset if anything happened to my Epic account though. I have zero attachment to them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tekdeb@piefed.social 5 points 10 months ago To me it's alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG. I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time. To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 10 months ago I view it as a backup in case I ever get banned or locked out of my account from Steam or Steam has a major outage. At least I have Epic as a backup. It costs me nothing except opening it once every week and adding it to my library. I wouldn’t be that upset if anything happened to my Epic account though. I have zero attachment to them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 point 9 months ago* Supposedly I'm up to over 400 games on Epic without any purchases through the platform AFAIK and I've probably played like 10 of them. permalink fedilink source parent