Any method to move Epic free games to Steam?

JacquesPatat 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 3:23

unfortunately the games what you have gotten for free on Epic cannot be move to a different platform, that goes for other platforms as well. If you are talking about "free to play" games then you have to see if it is on steam platform.

If you don't want DRM then GOG.com is good place to go, other then that your best option is to wait for specials and buy games on steam.

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☎need4naiim☎ 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 3:26

And also, THAT kind of business practice (making countless giveaways every week) reeks of some shady future for those freely claimed games. I mean, we don't know what kind of a deal Epic signed with those publishers to let EGS users play those games. One day, Epic can say its users that "Your licenses to play the games acclaimed from giveaways will end in X. Y. Z. date, Best Regards". Same thing could have happened in Steam but Steam makes game giveaways extremely rare, which is expected from any business let alone gaming industry. However, what EGS does is very unconventional and raises questions as Epic themselves are known as one the least consumer-friendly companies out there. Valve is also not 100% consumer friendly but light years ahead of a company like Epic which does everything you can imagine to lure players out of Steam. That kind of a mentality won't let your "free licenses" in its portal function without getting enough DATA from you. In 21st century, our private data is worth billions of dollars for international companies. That's why low-tier hackers can still make a living and can make ends meet without taking odd jobs since 90s.

最後修改者：☎need4naiim☎; 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 3:29

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lsdninja 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 3:30

引用自 starbuck：
Epic is just SO bad in their whole UI and how its missing proper reviews, details, platform info for Linux, and serarching and browsing is just a confusion. Steam is the best with this but if epic started to care a little about Linux users and made a UI and platform with actual info and small but important things like being able to click from one game to another from the same devlopers/publishers to better find games form the same company, it would be way better and more used.
But alas, they have fortnite, they have all they need, and they dont need us.
I have the same problem with having games on epic and wanting to lay them, but nothing ever runs on Linux from that ♥♥♥♥ platform unless its a game linked to steam to run from there.
I honestly dont know why any game developers would choose Epic, or EA, they are just so way behind and useless it blocks out so many of us.

Heroic runs on Linux too.

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Crazy Tiger 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 4:01

引用自 JacquesPatat：
unfortunately the games what you have gotten for free on Epic cannot be move to a different platform, that goes for other platforms as well. If you are talking about "free to play" games then you have to see if it is on steam platform.

If you don't want DRM then GOG.com is good place to go, other then that your best option is to wait for specials and buy games on steam.

If someone is interested in indie games, Itch.io can be of interest as well. Good games like Celeste and Baba is You are also available there, for example.

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Space is the Place 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 5:17

引用自 HiroBeing🌌：
I don't know what to do with Epic except getting free games and never opening the platform again -_-

Can´t you just NOT take the free Epic games if you are not gonna use it??

it would seem to me you are just getting them out of FOMO rather than because you are actually gonna play, so if you are not really gonna use Epic, can´t you just ignore free giveaways?

I mean, for starters, that´s why Epic gives so much free games, in order to get more players. Steam used to do it too and then it stopped and now most of the free games are trashware, scams or short indie first dev games.

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Haruspex 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 10:54

引用自 lsdninja：
I used to care about not having my games in Steam, but then Valve went and made Big Picture so awful that I switched to Playnite which solves the one big issue I had (cloud save sync in non-Steam games) and now it's stopped mattering to me which version of a game I buy.

Sure, it certainly works both ways. I remember in 2020-2021 or so, I had a plan to stop buying new games on Steam and focus on migrating over exclusively to GOG where their DRM free approach gives me more control. This was going well for a while until the Steam Deck was announced. I got one, fell in love, and suddenly I wanted all my games on Steam again just for the convenience. I find myself re-purchasing previous GOG purchases on Steam when a good deal comes up.

Everyone has their reasons for wanting their games on one platform or the other, but I don't really ever see someone asking how to migrate their Steam games to the Epic Store. It's always the other way around.

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76561199502155650 2023 年 9 月 20 日上午 11:22

i think most people know that steams very DMR locked and its impossible to migrate steam games to any other platform, unless you can remove the Steam DMR, which if you could do that anyway , i don't see a point in even using a 3rd party launcher for the game.

lots of games have there own launchers you can sign up and download the games directly from websites, in many cases steam or epic is not even needed , you can buy the game directly from most game pages.

what is nice about steam or epic is that you can have all of your logins migrated under 1 account so you don't need to enter passwords or user names for each game.

always remember that DMR is not user friendly it was added to games to lock others out and to promote profits of the 3rd party sale stores. Steam wants you to think that they are the only place you can get the game, however you can often buy the game with No DMR and play it with no game front software running that takes up resources.

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Tito Shivan 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 1:05

引用自 Unicorn - Rainbow Unit：
i think most people know that steams very DMR locked and its impossible to migrate steam games to any other platform.

And which platform allows that?

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Satoru 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 1:07

引用自 Tito Shivan：
引用自 Unicorn - Rainbow Unit：
i think most people know that steams very DMR locked and its impossible to migrate steam games to any other platform.
And which platform allows that?

GOG allowed that for only a handful of games through GOG Connect. It was time limited. Hell it was time limited so much Stellaris only worked for literally 2 HOURS before they canned it due to FRAUD. After that GOG COnnect basically died

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Shinoskay 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 1:45

dont you actually own the game on epic?

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Brian9824 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 1:57

引用自 Shinoskay：
dont you actually own the game on epic?

No more then you own it on steam or anywhere else for digital content.

引用自 Unicorn - Rainbow Unit：
i think most people know that steams very DMR locked .

First of all its DRM, not DMR so you need to have the most basic knowledge of what you are trying to discuss.

Actually quite a few games on steam have no DRM at all and you can launch them without Steam even needing to be installed. Its up to the dev to choose if they want to use the steam DRM and to what degree.

I mean steam's ability to transfer games is identical to every single game platform right now...

引用自 Unicorn - Rainbow Unit：
Steam wants you to think that they are the only place you can get the game, however you can often buy the game with No DMR

Steam never makes the claim that they are the only place you can get third party games, and pretty much every site except GOG (which doesn't have the overwhelming majority of games) has one form of DRM or another to help combat piracy.

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Shinoskay 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 5:08

引用自 brian9824：

引用自 Unicorn - Rainbow Unit：
i think most people know that steams very DMR locked .

First of all its DRM, not DMR so you need to have the most basic knowledge of what you are trying to discuss.

Dude, just stop. right there... just, no.

https://media.tenor.com/YD4NHdBWKjMAAAAM/stop-it-get-some-help-just-stop.gif

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C²C^Guyver |NZB| 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 5:16

引用自 Shinoskay：
引用自 brian9824：

First of all its DRM, not DMR so you need to have the most basic knowledge of what you are trying to discuss.
Dude, just stop. right there... just, no.

https://media.tenor.com/YD4NHdBWKjMAAAAM/stop-it-get-some-help-just-stop.gif

You're the one asking whether or not you own games on Epic. Again, even on GOG you are purchasing a license and they even tell you this.

EDIT

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

引用自 GOG License：
2.1 We give you and other GOG users the personal right (known legally as a 'licence') to use GOG services and to download, access and/or stream (depending on the content) and use GOG content. This licence is for your personal use. We can stop or suspend this licence in some situations, which are explained later on.

最後修改者：C²C^Guyver |NZB|; 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 5:23

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Shinoskay 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 5:28

引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|：
引用自 Shinoskay：
Dude, just stop. right there... just, no.

https://media.tenor.com/YD4NHdBWKjMAAAAM/stop-it-get-some-help-just-stop.gif
You're the one asking whether or not you own games on Epic. Again, even on GOG you are purchasing a license and they even tell you this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/a2d7hc/ownership_of_games/

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BJWyler 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 5:37

引用自 Shinoskay：
引用自 C²C^Guyver |NZB|：
You're the one asking whether or not you own games on Epic. Again, even on GOG you are purchasing a license and they even tell you this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/a2d7hc/ownership_of_games/

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/do_we_really_own_our_games_on_gog_or_rather_not_discussion_and_research

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/212632089-GOG-User-Agreement?product=gog

最後修改者：BJWyler; 2023 年 9 月 20 日下午 5:37

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