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[–] 134 points 4 months ago (9 children)

It was never about any of that. It's that Valve is a trustworthy company so far and epic is not. The only way at this point I would buy from epic store is if they offered DRM free copies.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Replace 'buy' with 'download for free' and 'launcher' with 'unnecessary software after the download completes', and they might get my attention.

    I wasn't swayed by their 'free' games that require their software. I wasn't swayed when they bought up exclusivity contracts (yarr!). I'm sure as fuck not going to be swayed by the software having the absolute bare-minimum feature set.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I have fully taken advantage of their free games. I just never buy anything on their store. I have hundreds of their free games and a lot of them are awesome games. Anything I want to buy I go through steam or gog.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    They definitely lost sales because of how horrible the user experience was/is, too.

    Remember how the store launched without a fucking shopping cart so you had to buy each game as a separate transaction? Pepperidge Farms remembers that Epic isn't even capable of the most basic of features required for an online store.

    Of course, they'll never get a cent out of me after they pulled that scumbag move of putting games on sale without ever asking the devs - they put games that hadn't even released at like 50% off!

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