I just Deleted my EGS Account.

[KingBudman]

I was gonna make an EGS account and then delete it just to complain.

When I tried to sign up someone had already made an account using my e-mail.

So I got control of the account, then DELETED it because F EGS for EXCLUSIVES!!

[Insaner Robot]

I don't own any games made or sold by Epic Games. I shouldn't have an Epic Games account.

But, after reading the original post,I just went to the epic games store site for a lark and put my email address into forgotten password part on the sign in page.

Instead of saying that this email is not registered for something, I was sent a password recovery link. I'm now logged into an account that uses my email with the following display name.

uOsgju4F

And the following "real name"

Ican Icanaw

Which isn't even close to any real name, never mind my name.

It also places my country/region in Thailand. Which again isn't even close.

What's this all about?

[Insaner Robot]

Prowler님이 먼저 게시:

Your email address is in all kind of lists out there, either email lists that email spammers use, or your email was found in a different breech of a website/service that you used some where else, or both. Then your email address was used to create a new account for the game by someone else who wanted to do something nefarious.

Shouldn't I have received an email of some sort upon the accounts activation though?

Or at least when my address was registered with them.

I've never even gotten a single email about anything from Epic before. But I sent them a message stating it's a fake account now. Will just have to wait and see if they do anything.

[Erebus]

Prowler님이 먼저 게시:

kwijybo님이 먼저 게시:

I don't own any games made or sold by Epic Games. I shouldn't have an Epic Games account.

But, after reading the original post,I just went to the epic games store site for a lark and put my email address into forgotten password part on the sign in page.

Instead of saying that this email is not registered for something, I was sent a password recovery link. I'm now logged into an account that uses my email with the following display name.



And the following "real name"



Which isn't even close to any real name, never mind my name.

It also places my country/region in Thailand. Which again isn't even close.

What's this all about?

Your email address is in all kind of lists out there, either email lists that email spammers use, or your email was found in a different breech of a website/service that you used some where else, or both. Then your email address was used to create a new account for the game by someone else who wanted to do something nefarious.

Which is why most modern sites require confirmations on account creation to confirm you actually own said email address and that it works.

Or at least most sites that bother with modern conventions. Course Epic ain't got time or energy for the basics... they've got ♥♥♥♥ to moneyhat.

[Insaner Robot]

Erebus님이 먼저 게시:

Which is why most modern sites require confirmations on account creation to confirm you actually own said email address and that it works.

Or at least most sites that bother with modern conventions. Course Epic ain't got time or energy for the basics... they've got ♥♥♥♥ to moneyhat.

Yes. I should have wrote that in my first post.

I never got a single confirmation or advertising email about an account being created or attached to my address in any way shape or form.

But because of this account I was probably being counted as an Epic Games Store customer, of which I am not.

[🐺-Wolferatus-🐺]

trolls never die on steam, glad epic doesn´t need one, imagine all the fortnite babys ....

[Commander Hitman2b]

KingBudman님이 먼저 게시:

I was gonna make an EGS account and then delete it just to complain.

When I tried to sign up someone had already made an account using my e-mail.

So I got control of the account, then DELETED it because F EGS for EXCLUSIVES!!

yeah i just delet mine who have fortnite STW deluxe and i just don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about those 60 euro

[KingBudman]

Wow, so many others with the Ican Icanaw name. I wonder if Epic made accounts, or hired someone to make a lot of fake accounts. Then at the board meeting was like "look shareholders, all these accounts we have for our GREAT STORE, best decision we have ever made"

Just seems fishy the store is new and I would bet everyone on steam has an account on epic with the same Ican name, if they didn't already have one when the store was launched.

Shady AF and I for sure won't ever buy anything on their platform, No was in HELL I will put my CC info into a platform that either makes fake accounts or lacks security to stop them.

[Trundle]

It made me wonder how that people get the hold of the account to begin with.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

I don't have an Epic account and i won't have an epic account. Not when they bribe publishers to make their games exclusive to their platform. I'd rather support piracy than the Epic store. Deep Silver will suffer from their greed at taking Epic's bribe. Mark my words!

[Valen]

Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)님이 먼저 게시:

I don't have an Epic account and i won't have an epic account. Not when they bribe publishers to make their games exclusive to their platform. I'd rather support piracy than the Epic store. Deep Silver will suffer from their greed at taking Epic's bribe. Mark my words!

Well... think about it.
You own the company and you're gonna release your game on Steam but... you need to earn a lot asap because you cannot pay your employers for the next month. So you either fire them or not but if you don't fire them, you risk going bankrupt next month because your game sale are not being expected very high and steam takes a LOT of your revenue (30% i believe).
So, you decide to go for the Epic Store, where they don't take any of your money per sales, and can grant the paycheck of your employers for the next months at least, making the situation of your company stable for the time being.

This is just a generic example but yeah, honestly... i don't care much about the game releasing on EGS or anything else really. Steam needs some competition.
It's thanks to Steam that they PERMANENTLY CHANGED the way to play PC games...
Remember the time of COD 4 where you just install, download the patches and play the game? Offline and not?
Good times... now you're forced to install Steam DRM for play the game you just bought...
and what's worse is that if Steam may shutdown in the very distant future, you'll lose access to all of your games.
Just like an old man taught me:''Life was better when back then it was much worse''

[Trundle]

Steam DRM is optional and I bet you ever heard of Denuvo.

[Valen]

T♥r♥u♥n♥d♥l♥e님이 먼저 게시:

Steam DRM is optional and I bet you ever heard of Denuvo.

I do know denuvo very well.... also Steam DRM is not ''optional''.
If you don't go online, you cannot play your games and for go offline, you first need to login lol... Now i have a stable internet so not a problem
but what about people's who don't have an internet connection on all the time?

[Trundle]

Valen님이 먼저 게시:

I do know denuvo very well.... also Steam DRM is not ''optional''.
If you don't go online, you cannot play your games and for go offline, you first need to login lol... Now i have a stable internet so not a problem
but what about people's who don't have an internet connection on all the time?

Steamworks, the actual DRM component is optional. Any non DRM game on Steam can be launched with Steam not running, it was proven years ago and I tested this myself, just click the exe and you are good to go.
The fact that you need to login is no diferent from what you need to do on GOG to download your games and GOG has a stright NO DRM policy.

[Michael]

Pat on the back님이 먼저 게시:

Can someone explain why so many user emails already exist on the Epic platform? When you reset the password on the account you never created the username is Icann and was setup in Thailand. It seems many people are experiencing the same problem.

It's a cheap way to do what they call "security."

[Michael]

Prowler님이 먼저 게시:

Pat on the back님이 먼저 게시:

Can someone explain why so many user emails already exist on the Epic platform? When you reset the password on the account you never created the username is Icann and was setup in Thailand. It seems many people are experiencing the same problem.

Scammers making fake accounts to scam people out of Vbucks so they can then sell the Vbucks for money. People's email addresses are out there, mine has been out there since Steam's hack where email addresses and credit card info was leaked in 2011 which happened to 30 million accounts, and again in 2014 with Kickstarters hack where email addresses were leaked, and again on CD Projekt Red forums leak in 2016, or having the email address on spam email lists, hence why spam emails exist.

Chances are even your email address is out already out there.
https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (trust this or not, it is up to you, you can research it to determine if you want to trust them)

They easiest way to minimum damage from this kind of stuff is to use a separate email for gaming/forums/whatever and separate email for personal stuff.