Epic should mine crypto and sell NFTs in their launcher, I'm sure it will increase its speed.
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Isn't Steam a lot more feature-rich? I never made an Epic account, it always looked skeezy.
I don't remember Epic ever having any features beyond a grid of games to pick from.
It has has much more than that since the very beginning. I'm not defending it in any way but there's no reason to say false things about it. It has friends, in-game overlay, achievements etc.
comparing steam and epic is kind of like comparing good restauraunt to some seedy fast food place where cook sometimes spits in the food out of spite and you always get dirty plates.
Epics "free games" thing reminds me of a candy van. You gain more by staying away as who knows what the launcher does on your computer, they do have to make their money from somewhere and selling harvested user information would be quite neat way to make some money as a final fuck you if they start to go under. There is probably a reason they dont seem to care about making better platform.
but the candy van might take you to a magical land
I honestly do not understand people hating on Epic and wanting them to fail.
If they hadn't done the launcher update to mog steam, the steam launcher would still be slow as fuck.
Competition is a good thing and Steam having a monopoly isn't. They contribute to you not owning games and need you to be locked into their systems and servers even for offline play. Steam is a buisness not some force for good in a world of evil.
I want steam to have competition, steam being monopoly is scary as then it might turn bad one day. but epic doesnt want to compete. They try everything else but trying to make better product. And its pretty clear their ultimate goal is to be monopoly themselves by doing what they can to drive steam out of business but they fortunately keep failing because they cant comprehend why people prefer steam over their crappy things.
At least something good came out of them now, but that was likely just a fluke. If it wasnt then its good and hopefully they continue to goad steam to become better.
But I wish there was some service that tried to take steam on by doing better than they are doing.
But I wish there was some service that tried to take steam on by doing better than they are doing.
GoG exists, you're just not using it. Every game is DRM-free and works offline, the launcher can lauch games from other libraries (Steam, Epic) and doesn't discriminate between games bought there vs bought some place else.
i literally cant use it because it doesnt work on linux
It does, just use Heroic Launcher or Lutris
those are just for accessing your games, i cant buy through them. Also I dont want to jump through hoops just because they can't be bothered to take my money.
I have one just for the free games. Load it all through heroic. Got hundreds, bought zero. And some of em are pretty decent. I've seen outer worlds pop up twice on it. I think I may have gotten satisfactory from it as well. Guardians of the Galaxy, river city girls one and two, deaths door. But that's the only reason.
Most features are within the embedded web view, though. Valve has frequently added or tweaked features without ever pushing a Steam client update.
You are literally not missing much, because yes, Steam has so many more features than Epic.
By skeezy do you happen to mean that it looks like the Comic Sans of game distribution?
In some ways but honestly a good chunk of steam's features are bloat and unnecessary. Like 99% of the community features.
Since the archive website isn't loading for me (and also is run by a piece of shit) I tried to find the original based on the headline alone:
https://videocardz.com/newz/steam-client-now-launches-faster-than-epics-new-launcher
But it's a fucking container.
So - speaking as a former security guy - no.
Could you please elaborate? How does containerizing harm security?
Because it lets you run code, which can harm your computer. For full compliance, throw your electronics into the nearest volcano.
It doesn’t, as long as those images are good about keeping their dependencies up to date. Because containers are entirely self-sufficient and come packaged with all of their necessary dependencies, there is a potential security concern with images keeping dependencies pinned to old, insecure versions. And catching that can be tricky sometimes, especially when you’re running larger stacks with lots of containers.
But I’d argue that is actually the image being insecure, not containerization itself. It would be no different from a program being considered insecure. We would handle an insecure image the same way we would handle an insecure program: push the maintainer to update their shit to a secure version, or fork it (if it’s OSS) to update the dependencies directly.
Plus, containerization is much more straightforward compared to the olden days of directly managing dependencies. For larger setups, that was basically a full time job by itself. Especially when you have multiple different programs all trying to call different versions of the same dependency.
Damn who knew the small little competition could make steam better XD
So AI got Steam to get off their ass and update their client. Good job AI!
It was in beta for a while apparently
There’s no way they started working on that patch when Epic announced their slop launcher, they don’t deploy things that quickly.
AI didn’t do shit
It was in beta for weeks yet it was coincidentally ready to come out of beta 18hrs after Epic.
You’re insinuating that they deployed earlier than planned because someone who barely qualifies as a competitor made a program that boots 2 seconds sooner and is then a shittier program than Steam?
I seriously doubt they were at all worried about Epic’s activities
Yeah the beta was done. But it's awfully coincidental that they released it out of beta 18 hours after Epic.
You’re insinuating that they deployed earlier than planned because someone who barely qualifies as a competitor made a program that boots 2 seconds sooner and is then a shittier program than Steam?
I seriously doubt they were at all worried about Epic’s activities
Yeah man, they definitely started working on that patch 15 hours before releasing it.
I'm kind of surprised to see the reddit like worship of steam here. As someone who has a 23 y/o account, a week into release; I don't really have that many positive things to say. Like it's okay, scraping the barrel okay. It could be worse isn't something to banter around. 1.7 Billion in revenue in September is like cheering on Walmart.

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