Why require an epic account?

[Danny Darth]

I hope they change this. I don't want anything to do with Epic Games.

[SpacemanJupiter]

EPIC is fine. Just install both. I have 5 to 10 gaming services installed. No reason not to. It is kinda weird though to require that.

[Min/Max]

Its to invite your friends who have the game on Epic Store, Cross-platform.

[corsiKa]

But Jagex already has Jagex accounts for this exact purpose. This is ridiculous.

[Danny Darth]

Originally posted by Min/Max:

Its to invite your friends who have the game on Epic Store, Cross-platform.

Yeah none of my friends use that malware ridden launcher... Hate epic games.

[elvinblade]

it should be fine, same thing as when you get the assassins creed games or farcry games on steam you still need an ubisoft account, or the sims 4 games and an origins account

[dunkelzahn]

looks like they are using unreal engine 5

[Junoh]

Epic Online Services is a pretty simple way of having cross platform support so that's my guess on why they use it. Few games used Steam's online features for their console releases and I'm pretty sure those were just Valve games.

[Jakob Fel]

If it's optional for cross-platform linking, then I'm down for it. I'm not down for it being a requirement, though. I use EGS for trying free games (especially since I refuse to ever pay for a subscription service like Game Pass) but that's literally it, Steam is the only place where I actively buy games nowadays and that's for many reasons, not the least of which being that Steam objectively offers the best overall platform experience.

It was bad enough Jagex was trying to push their own launcher, last thing I want is to deal with an EGS requirement here.

[Xianyu]

I was interested, now I'm not.

I have a jagex account. I'm not signing up to an anti consumer POS like epic games to play a game I already have an account for.

♥♥♥♥ outta here.

Hard pass.

[Gray Fox]

Originally posted by Xianyu:

I was interested, now I'm not.

I have a jagex account. I'm not signing up to an anti consumer POS like epic games to play a game I already have an account for.

♥♥♥♥ outta here.

Hard pass.

bye felicia

[Codeman Fluff]

Originally posted by SpacemanJupiter:

EPIC is fine. Just install both. I have 5 to 10 gaming services installed. No reason not to. It is kinda weird though to require that.

Epic is NOT fine. They peddle their free games to thinly veil their anti-consumerist bullcrap that goes on behind-the-scenes to the naive.

Of Many Reasons to Hate Epic, Here are the Best:

-Their Digital Storefront launched RIDDLED with security bugs that left their consumers with easily exposed credit/debit cards that they didn't immediately rectify
-EGS launcher has been caught scanning user file directories, (when not in use), for insider-knowledge to the software installed on their consumer's systems and report the findings to their sever farms for collection.
-poach fully released games on Steam that users have bought, delist them, and then make accessible ONLY via EGS launcher (such as Rocket League or Fall Guys)
-their refusal and abrasive approach to fix and add QoL features for years to their storefront (such as the ability to buy more then ONE game at a time)
-Epic actively working to sabotage consumer support for the Linux OS when Valve was working with Easy Anti-Cheat to incorporate Linux compatibility (before Epic bought out EAC) and then dropped all support/contact with Valve once Epic acquired EAC
-Epic bolstering a false bravado to Developers stating they'll earn more money on the EGS platform since the revenue split is much smaller then Valves yet offering only a fraction of the features (and most importantly (lacking) A DISCOVER-ABILITY ALGORITHM to help promote indie studios/products for consumers to discover and buy which loses out on sales)


I'm sure there's more I'm missing, but take your pick to any ONE, let alone a fair few, of the reasons above to avoid a scumbag, greedy corp like Epic a free pass. You may be fine being ill informed and operating on the software-launcher riddled, blue muffin equivalent, of a computer system, but don't make that decision for people if they choose to do better for them-self.

[Hadji*]

ugh, hard pass

[Absurd]

yep screw that--- epic required means = not gonna bother

[masak]

the question is how they implement Epic online Services. (EOS)

where most games don't even tell you a screen about signing up to a epic account or about account linking. and it just uses the Steam ID to authenticate.

When Earth Defence Force 6 was released last year the devs for that game implemented it where it required you to link to a epiic account by signing into there account instead of just letting Steam be used to sign onto it instead.

But was patched in later without the epic account sign in or linkage.

A lot of games do use the EOS but dont force the sign in / linking. But it should be up to the user if they want to allow cross-play or not. without the forced linkage.

[kenneth00]

wait so ill need a jagex account, a steam account and a epic account to play this game?