Steam VS Epic Games

[XTerGamingYT]

In my opinion, Steam is better than Epic Games, though I don’t mean any hate. I just dislike Epic’s account system. Once, I made an Epic Games account to play Fortnite, but after some time, I stopped using it. Eventually, Epic Games deleted my account due to inactivity. That never happened to me with Steam. I left my Steam account inactive for 1-2 years, and it was still there when I came back. So, in my view, it’s worth spending a little extra on Steam to keep your games safe. After all, what’s the point of buying a game if your account might be deleted due to inactivity? Also, the Epic Games launcher tends to lag on low-end PCs, so I definitely recommend choosing Steam.

[XTerGamingYT]

btw guys actually i used ChatGPT to improve my grammar and stuff because i wanted to improve it this is the original one:
So In My opinion Steam Is better than Epic Games But no hate from me I Just hate its account system so one day i made an epic games account to play fortnite then after sometime i left and epic games deleted my account for inactivity but that never happened in steam for me i left my account for a while in steam like 1-2 years and it still didnt get deleted so in my personality you should spend extra bucks to keep it forever like whats the point of buying a game and get your account deleted for inactivity in epic games and epic games launcher is laggy for low end pcs so you should definetely choose steam

[BJWyler]

Yeah, the use of AI does not replace the necessary need to learn proper grammar and sentence structure.

Thar being said, deleting inactive accounts is not a unique concept, and Epic is not alone in that. However there is a difference between your EGS account, and an account created to play a game. I don't know the EGS TOS specifically, but it's highly unlikely that it will delete an account due to inactivity, especially if there are games on the account.

[Crazy Tiger]

I don't see why there is a need for a "x vs y" or "x is better than y" to begin with. Both stores can coexist next to each other, people are free to use them as they see fit.

[lailaamell]

Why is it always one or the other i used epic for some games most single player games just didnt run offline

[Wolfpig]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von XTerGamingYT:

Once, I made an Epic Games account to play Fortnite, but after some time, I stopped using it. Eventually, Epic Games deleted my account due to inactivity.

There are Services which delete Accounts if no money was spend on them..... or people dont read Emails to prevent that ahead of time (as most give a notice at least a month in advance if the account might get deleted for whatever reason)

[Thiesen]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von XTerGamingYT:

In my opinion, Steam is better than Epic Games, though I don’t mean any hate. I just dislike Epic’s account system. Once, I made an Epic Games account to play Fortnite, but after some time, I stopped using it. Eventually, Epic Games deleted my account due to inactivity. That never happened to me with Steam. I left my Steam account inactive for 1-2 years, and it was still there when I came back. So, in my view, it’s worth spending a little extra on Steam to keep your games safe. After all, what’s the point of buying a game if your account might be deleted due to inactivity? Also, the Epic Games launcher tends to lag on low-end PCs, so I definitely recommend choosing Steam.

I haven't use my Epic account for YEARS so I tried loging in to it and it worked just fine...

There's things you are not telling us which Is the real reason to why Epic cancelled you account:..

[Soren]

I don't know. I eventually uninstalled the EGS from my computer. It was always looking to update constantly, but the features of those updates were pretty useless and the platform still has almost no social features compared to Steam. I stopped updating EGS for a few years, it'd still auto-boot (I'd have to update the platform to disable auto-booting too). Eventually my computer started blue screening and out-dated programs were the culprit of the memory pool corruption causing the crashes. Hence why I uninstalled.

I'd download the free games on EGS here and there. But on the rare occasion there was something I actually wanted to play. It wouldn't work that well anyway. Like Cave Story+, it wouldn't recognise my controller. I'm mostly a keyboard and mouse kind of guy, but metroidvanias feel so much better on controller. Then Steam came out with their steam familes, which is like family sharing except easier and better. So I have access to like 4x the games suddenly. So now I can play games like Cave Story+ without paying for them, but on the platform with more features and better support.

[76561199648916059]

It's a mix bag, epic has given me some free games that simply further my belief that games aren't worth buying. Most of the free games are junk, with a few quality titles, I play some however in my past experience some of steams free games are better.

It really depends on the situation I suppose, I'll use death standing, which it had got a lot of hype, seemed popular, got it for free last Christmas and played it a few hours, only to realize all you do is walk slowly, it was a bit underwhelming and really shows the level of advertising manipulation we all face as consumers.

While steam is great for certain things, epic for others, having the option for both is best.

[SLAYER187]

I use both but there is no comparison, epic is a bare shell with no forums no workshop no nothing really while steam has all the bells and whistles and better sales. I use gog as well being an old schooler with many games but steam is my main home for playing games on PC.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von XTerGamingYT:

In my opinion, Steam is better than Epic Games, though I don’t mean any hate. I just dislike Epic’s account system. Once, I made an Epic Games account to play Fortnite, but after some time, I stopped using it. Eventually, Epic Games deleted my account due to inactivity. That never happened to me with Steam. I left my Steam account inactive for 1-2 years, and it was still there when I came back. So, in my view, it’s worth spending a little extra on Steam to keep your games safe. After all, what’s the point of buying a game if your account might be deleted due to inactivity? Also, the Epic Games launcher tends to lag on low-end PCs, so I definitely recommend choosing Steam.

Uhhh that SHOULDN'T have happened as in Epic doesn't delete people account for being inactive, I know they lock/deactivate accounts, all you had to do is do recovery on the account AFAIK.

But I do agree with you seem silly what Epic does.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von XTerGamingYT:

btw guys actually i used ChatGPT to improve my grammar and stuff because i wanted to improve it this is the original one:

Doesn't hurt to use it, but I hope you learn how to improve on your grammar on your own way so wouldn't have to rely on it in the future. Anyway, don't let anyone get to you if someone trying to be grammar police, as long can make clear communication with others the better for you & others can have discussions, as well solving problems.

[Seraphita]

Learning language is hard. I sometimes rely on chatgpt for writing purposes. (Not steam but I mean when I write stories.) It saved me a few times but even I can notice that chatgpt tries to be too formal at times. Improving our grammar would be fine if they were ways to do so. I suppose if we found free english courses or something, I guess?

As for steam vs Epic. I don't trust epic... They did so much wrong that I tend to stay away from them. I would never install their launcher either. It's like installing the enemy in your PC. Or like knowingly installing a virus. I exaggerate, of course. But I truly do not like epic and everything I see about them makes me want to stay away further...

[sfnhltb]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Seraphita:

As for steam vs Epic. I don't trust epic... They did so much wrong that I tend to stay away from them. I would never install their launcher either. It's like installing the enemy in your PC. Or like knowingly installing a virus. I exaggerate, of course. But I truly do not like epic and everything I see about them makes me want to stay away further...

Having already lost games when Impulse shut down back in the day, the idea of buying games from an online store that is continually losing lots of money just seems a really bad idea.

Whereas with lots of products even if the vendor disappeared the next day it probably wouldn't be an issue (assuming the item isn't faulty and needs returning), with certain types of digital products the vendors longevity is fairly important - even if a way to keep access to the games after the vendor disappears is possible, that then becomes a manual process of keeping the offline installers safe, no new patches will usually be available even if they are on other platforms that still exist, etc.

So for me Epic is a no go on that single issue already, regardless of anything else they do or don't do. Who knows when the tap gets turned off by the people that hold the purse strings there.

[Squirrel With Acorn]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Thiesen:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von XTerGamingYT:

In my opinion, Steam is better than Epic Games, though I don’t mean any hate. I just dislike Epic’s account system. Once, I made an Epic Games account to play Fortnite, but after some time, I stopped using it. Eventually, Epic Games deleted my account due to inactivity. That never happened to me with Steam. I left my Steam account inactive for 1-2 years, and it was still there when I came back. So, in my view, it’s worth spending a little extra on Steam to keep your games safe. After all, what’s the point of buying a game if your account might be deleted due to inactivity? Also, the Epic Games launcher tends to lag on low-end PCs, so I definitely recommend choosing Steam.

I haven't use my Epic account for YEARS so I tried loging in to it and it worked just fine...

There's things you are not telling us which Is the real reason to why Epic cancelled you account:..

My wife played Fortnite Battle Royal when it first came out back in 2017, she played it for a few months and hasn't touched the game since then, also hasn't done anything on Epic Store at all during it's entire existence, she never spent money in Fortnite either. I just had her log into Fortnite and she was still able to log in and play the game. its been 7 years since that account was logged into, and its still there.

So yes, the OP isn't telling us something. its clear that Epic doesn't ever delete accounts for inactivity.

[Squirrel With Acorn]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von sfnhltb:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Seraphita:

As for steam vs Epic. I don't trust epic... They did so much wrong that I tend to stay away from them. I would never install their launcher either. It's like installing the enemy in your PC. Or like knowingly installing a virus. I exaggerate, of course. But I truly do not like epic and everything I see about them makes me want to stay away further...

Having already lost games when Impulse shut down back in the day, the idea of buying games from an online store that is continually losing lots of money just seems a really bad idea.

Whereas with lots of products even if the vendor disappeared the next day it probably wouldn't be an issue (assuming the item isn't faulty and needs returning), with certain types of digital products the vendors longevity is fairly important - even if a way to keep access to the games after the vendor disappears is possible, that then becomes a manual process of keeping the offline installers safe, no new patches will usually be available even if they are on other platforms that still exist, etc.

So for me Epic is a no go on that single issue already, regardless of anything else they do or don't do. Who knows when the tap gets turned off by the people that hold the purse strings there.

I never worry about companies that purposely lose money from what is effectively marketing money being spent towards growth of a new service or product. Epic was losing money because of them doing the coupons and doing the exclusive games, and they have stopped doing both of those. They were losing money on non normal business operations of running a store. If they were losing money for doing normal business operations of running a store that would be worrying, but since they were not but was purely due to coupons and exclusive games I don't worry about it at all.

[Rammur]

epic winnin for me now that steam seems to not want my money card is gettin declined suddenly and they not answerin my tickets lol