Steam or Epic

[real donald glover]

I only have Epic Games Store because of occasional free games, but I saw that they had Jedi Fallen Order on sale, just like Steam(17% off), but they give a free coupon that removes 10 dollars from the price. Should I buy it for 40 dollars on Epic or 50 euros here on Steam? What advantages do I get here?

[Yukinya]

You get support.
Epic Games doesn't have forums.

[ロリーヤ]

I mean. Just buy wherever you want to. Who the hell really cares. It's you playing the game. You put the value on it. You decide how much tou want to spend.

It doesn't matter if Epic doesn't have forums or whatever. Lots of people don't use forums actively anyway lmao.

[Gambit-3k]

In the specific case of JFO, you don't get much benefit to owning it on Steam to be honest. The game doesn't have Steam achievements or mods, and it's single player, plus you need the origin launcher either way. You don't really lose any benefit by buying it on EGS in this case. The only actual thing you get on Steam you don't get elsewhere are trading cards (which while cool don't make or break a purchase). If it had multiplayer or mods it would be a different story in my book.

So really the only question to ask (in the case of JFO) is are you ok with Epic's practices as a company and do you want to support them. I'm guessing since you asked the question you don't take issue with them. It's true Steam has forums and support is better, but you can obviously use the forums anyway like you are now.

tl;dr Since this game doesn't use any important Steam features or multiplayer, it really just comes down to whether you care about supporting one store over the other.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by totally a nerd:

Should I buy it for 40 dollars on Epic or 50 euros here on Steam? What advantages do I get here?

Why are you asking Steam (its community) instead of asking Epic?

No need to answer that, but doesn't that by itself already explain things? ;)

[Getty]

Originally posted by nerd vpn:

You get support.
Epic Games doesn't have forums.

this works fine for me https://www.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/

[Asai]

yeah tbh i plan on leaving steam for epic because of their weekly to monthly free games but fcking ♥♥♥♥ even epic doesnt want to install on my system because of my sh1tty gpu so now im still using steam but now i love steam because of the LEVEL up system but seriously i love steam because of the library and games but fck that ui too

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Get whatever you want doesn't matter really.

If you get it on Steam, you get access to upload screenshots to the community for the Game, game hours tracking, if there achievements added then you get support for that as well, along with cloud save, and if there trading cards, badge for profile, you get emotes for chat and forum, and background profile pics. If it support remote play together, you get access to that as well to play with friends like PS share play, or parsec. If it support Steamwork you can access the mods section, which I don't believe EA Origin devs will set up one for this game TBH, and etc...

If didn't get it on Steam you still have access to upload screenshots, but not to the game community, you still have Steam overlay, streaming, Linux play support if you use Linux to allow you to help make things simple enough with running Windows games on Linux, stream in-home streaming, controller support for large variety of controllers, and etc.

On Epic, cloud save support, and that about it. If you want help you need to seek 3rd party forums, or Steam forum for help, but yea that's about it. Not much to say at all, it's not hate, or anything, that's literally all there is on Epic that will offer you.

You see night and day between them one offer a lot of things, while the other offer bare minimum things, and nothing more.

[reg1s7]

You have CS:GO. Purchasing it on Steam may improve your trust factor.
*However I saw that you do not have service medal even if you have loyalty badge, so I guess you do not care that much about CS:GO trust factor.

[Crazy Tiger]

Epic is still on its entry market strategy. The free games, coupons and all such "benefits" are a lure to gain a market share. Eventually that will stop.

Advantages of Steam are mostly the bigger catalog. Plus I like the client, even though the new UI isn't my cup of tea yet. I am getting used to it, though.

However, can someone please explain to me why it has to be the one or the other? Why not simply use both? I cannot understand why people think they have to choose.

[Gambit-3k]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Epic is still on its entry market strategy. The free games, coupons and all such "benefits" are a lure to gain a market share. Eventually that will stop.

Advantages of Steam are mostly the bigger catalog. Plus I like the client, even though the new UI isn't my cup of tea yet. I am getting used to it, though.

However, can someone please explain to me why it has to be the one or the other? Why not simply use both? I cannot understand why people think they have to choose.

He is asking about "Jedi: Fallen Order" specifically, this isn't a general Epic vs Steam thread, at least that's how I read the question. I mean you are right overall though, it doesn't have to be one or the other when it comes to where you get your games. Some games do have more benefits on Steam depending on the features, for "Jedi: Fallen Order", not so much.

[reg1s7]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

However, can someone please explain to me why it has to be the one or the other? Why not simply use both? I cannot understand why people think they have to choose.

Yeah, I also don't understand. Until today, the everything I know about Epic comes from Steam discussion. I do not understand the rivalry anyway.

Using that argument, well, 40 dollars and 50 euros are clearly significantly different. I say just go for cheaper one.

[KillahInstinct]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Epic is still on its entry market strategy. The free games, coupons and all such "benefits" are a lure to gain a market share. Eventually that will stop.

Advantages of Steam are mostly the bigger catalog. Plus I like the client, even though the new UI isn't my cup of tea yet. I am getting used to it, though.

However, can someone please explain to me why it has to be the one or the other? Why not simply use both? I cannot understand why people think they have to choose.

I think it's because one is for the consumers and the other one is for the developers. Gamers are generally techsavy people who know when a company wants to screw them over, and they're loyal to the ones that don't.

[WolfEisberg]

There is no real benefit to get it from Steam unless you want to upload screenshots to Steam that are attached to the game community hub, and you really love trading cards.

Otherwise when buying on Epic you get everything else the Steam version gets.

So ask yourself if paying $10 more is worth it for screenshots to the hub and for trading cards.

[Yukinya]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

There is no real benefit to get it from Steam unless you want to upload screenshots to Steam that are attached to the game community hub, and you really love trading cards.

Otherwise when buying on Epic you get everything else the Steam version gets.

So ask yourself if paying $10 more is worth it for screenshots to the hub and for trading cards.

Really? You don't get the community support at Epic.Oh and the WORKSHOP...

[Bergman]

Originally posted by totally a nerd:

I only have Epic Games Store because of occasional free games, but I saw that they had Jedi Fallen Order on sale, just like Steam(17% off), but they give a free coupon that removes 10 dollars from the price. Should I buy it for 40 dollars on Epic or 50 euros here on Steam? What advantages do I get here?

I´m changing more and more over to EPIC. (Free games, very good offers)