Free games

[Shrek]

How come Epic Games manages to provide pretty good free games and Steam proposes only games that nobody knows? Being in the business since September 12, 2003 they can surely afford this.

[Radioaktivist]

引用自 Muppet among Puppets：

The ad each time you pull the window up is annoying.

If you remove the free games and the 10 $ coupon, there is not much left why you should choose epic and not something else.

i think steam is not better in this. they bombard you with so much clutter its not funny anymore. whenever i enter the shop i see hentai games, games i aswell can program myself within a day using gamemaker, games that are old and at horrifying prices...

i also dislike the new ui a lot. steam is bloated and it really needs to loose some fat

[Obscurrus]

I mean, it's always good for the customer when there is some competition on the market. All I'm saying is that Steam won't just poof out of existence just because some other game platform lures in customers via free games.
There are people on here that have invested hundreds or even thousands of Dollars into their Steam account. They won't leave.

[Radioaktivist]

引用自 Obscurrus：

I mean, it's always good for the customer when there is some competition on the market. All I'm saying is that Steam won't just poof out of existence just because some other game platform lures in customers via free games.
There are people on here that have invested hundreds or even thousands of Dollars into their Steam account. They won't leave.

i am aware of that. all i assume is the focus will shift from steam to epic. that ofc might change again when steam ripples up and improves. i got a large lib on steam myself

[Muppet among Puppets]

引用自 ꧁Oภ𝔽iℝe꧂：

all i assume is the focus will shift from steam to epic.

They give away games for 18 months already.

[Vas]

Epic gives away games for free to encourage people to move to their ♥♥♥♥♥♥ platform. When they have inflated their platform enough after all of the epic exclusives and such, they change their policy to something that ♥♥♥♥♥ you over because you already own too many games on it. So sure, go to epic, wait for them to ♥♥♥♥ you over so I can laugh at you.

[konstantynopolitaneczka]

Yeah epic is way better

pros:
+free UE4
+free games every week
+doesn't crash every time you alt-tab

cons:
-Epic community is almost non existant
-Tencent owns maybe half of it? Idk but Im sure China has some connections with Epic
- people go nuts when they see a free game they bought 4 days ago

[Vas]

Rademenes, don't forget. Epic has security leaks. I signed in via those "sign in with" like "sign in with facebook) for example, to make my account via that. Those generate security keys, totally random characters for your password. I kept getting constant emails for months about my account having someone attempt to login to it but failing because of 2FA. I kept changing the key, and it kept happening, to several people I knew even. Therefor they have crap security.

Only reason I had an account was for Ark's Dev Kit.

[konstantynopolitaneczka]

引用自 Vas：

Rademenes, don't forget. Epic has security leaks. I signed in via those "sign in with" like "sign in with facebook) for example, to make my account via that. Those generate security keys, totally random characters for your password. I kept getting constant emails for months about my account having someone attempt to login to it but failing because of 2FA. I kept changing the key, and it kept happening, to several people I knew even. Therefor they have crap security.

Only reason I had an account was for Ark's Dev Kit.

You should check if your email wasn't breached https://haveibeenpwned.com/
People never care until something happens, like you mentioned

[Vas]

引用自 Rademenes16：

You should check if your email wasn't breached https://haveibeenpwned.com/
People never care until something happens, like you mentioned

Don't worry, I've already checked. Its not. Otherwise I'd have far far greater issues than someone trying to steal an account that has nothing on it.

[Sazzouu]

引用自 ꧁Oภ𝔽iℝe꧂：

i guess it does yes. its called customer acquisation. something steam never heard of.

Well they gotta have done something... I mean with over 100 Million active users and a total library of well over 30.000 products (not including movies and server tools). Not to mention the frequent milestone breaking events like the most recent one...
https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181272/steam-concurrent-user-record-set-cs-go

I could cast a list on that but I guess you get the point. Go sell your soul for some free stuff. But don't even think about whining in here because your data will eventually get breached on Epic

[adz]

Steam does have the 16 yrs vs 1-2 year for epic??

Steam offers more features and a more robust system to egs.

Being a 16yr old member my self, personal thoughts is..... well steam is the best platform for pc.

[konstantynopolitaneczka]

引用自 adz：

Steam does have the 16 yrs vs 1-2 year for epic??

Steam offers more features and a more robust system to egs.

Being a 16yr old member my self, personal thoughts is..... well steam is the best platform for pc.

Best because its the only platform that offers many things other platforms will never achieve.

And congrats for being here for 16 years

[adz]

引用自 Rademenes16：

引用自 adz：

Steam does have the 16 yrs vs 1-2 year for epic??

Steam offers more features and a more robust system to egs.

Being a 16yr old member my self, personal thoughts is..... well steam is the best platform for pc.

Best because its the only platform that offers many things other platforms will never achieve.

And congrats for being here for 16 years :KOh:

thanks, yep this is why i think Steam > Egs. its just more advanced and has the time frame egs just came out of the blue and super late. 2018 or 2019? to late. Steam has been from 2003. i think 2002 had a beta but who knows i was on WON back then.

[Count_Dandyman]

Its cute that you think Epic giving away games like GTA5 and Civ 6 is an example of them wanting to be nice to customers.

Those games are so old and been on so many sales already that practically everyone that was going to buy them already has. All they have done giving them away is lure in people that weren't interested to be hit by the microtransactions and dlcs they feel they will have to buy to catch up with everyone else.

[danielr]

Steam has had plenty for free. They had Tomb Raider and currently The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game is free too. If you want to download and use EPIC's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher then that's your mistake.