Epic Games is good for Gaming

[Lemale]

Well good competition is always good. Now we have epic, gog and steam. If one company would monopolize the gaming market it would be bad for everyone. Look at microsoft and windows but that will change as well just a matter of time. If we have competition gamers benefit from it. I don’t know why a small minority hates epic that much they aren’t different. Steam also has exclusive games and games on Pc are just launcher exclusives nothing more

[LeviathanWon]

Epic sell gift cards or wallet game cards yet? Or you expected to use plastic?

[Lora Grim]

I don't know how games being in one place is a bad thing but okay.
Like, yeah.. i get the corporate side of things, but i am a normal person not a corporate d-bag.
So when i need to use 4 different platforms to play my games, i get irritated.

[ZZZZZ]

the publishers set the price and not the stores, means it doesnt matter which launcher u use.. monopol or not does not affect the price of the games at all.. gamers dont benefit in any case

[lightwo]

Epic is probably the least trustworthy digital game provider, they even provide spyware services that developers have widely used for years.

It would be lovely if Steam networking wasn't exclusive to games purchased on Steam, since Epic prioritised cross-platform compatibility in order to spread all over PC gaming, and there are no other big name alternatives.

If anything, Epic's influence may be doing more harm than good. Any other competitor would have been better.

[Maria]

Originally posted by Lemale:

Epic Games is good for Gaming

The last time I installed Epic client it ran very slowly and the memory they ate is on par with chrome at 10+ tabs. Is the client still bloated?

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Doesn’t epic actually has nft games? The only reason to buy there is if a game is drm free which many games are. But gog is preferred for that path because you also get the offline installers.

[nullpo]

Originally posted by LeviathanWon:

Epic sell gift cards or wallet game cards yet? Or you expected to use plastic?

they do accept local e-wallet which steam doesn't so right now I prefer buying via EGS because I don't like using credit card on online purchase

[Γαῖα]

Epic games is just another platform and gift cards or wallet game cards are rather mute now you have to hand over personal data to be able to make a purchase.

[Chill-Out-Zone]

Use paypal.
Epic is pretty good as Steam.
They are making other stuff like steam.

[LeviathanWon]

How much money does epic let the developers keep? Steam takes 30% to publish here. Plus Unreal takes a large sum if your game is successful. Games are full of "crypto" type data sharing anyways.

[sleeps]

use whatever you want but i don't think epic is for me

[Crazy Tiger]

Meh, people should use whatever stores/launchers they want to use. It's fine as it is.

[Bagel]

It would be a fair competition if Epic didn’t pay for their exclusivity deals. And instead of shoving money into improving their launcher, they rather put it into exclusivity deals which is no good for everyone. Freebies are a great idea but I’d rather put some worth into my games to expect a certain level of quality. But sure, some freeloaders enjoy them.

Also, we have the fact that EGS is competing with steam for years now and I don’t see any benefits in terms of lower prices. Even the opposite is the case, publishers coming from EGS’s exclusivity deals often get extra greedy and charge for multiple season passes and rarely drop discounts on their games.

It is infact funny that OP is even mentioning Epic and competition in the same sentence when Unreal Engine sadly has barely any competition. I’d rather see some competition in the game engine market.

[GlaceonChireiden]

The problem is none of those are good competition for steam. Steam still has more functions and the legacy behind it for epic to be much competition.

I don't know anyone with epic who uses it for anything except the free/exclusive games. If given the option they will always go to steam first for a game.

[Sir Seanicus, Esq.]

Tencent spyware. No thanks.