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What's up with Epic Games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them...

But for the sake of promoting conversation on Lemmy, what's the issue with Epic, and why should I go for Steam or GoG?

Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent... But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater 🥹... coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents... Hence I've always played bootleg, or pirated games.

TL;DR

What's wrong?

Their launcher has a terrible UI AND UX.
They make exclusive deals with studios to prevent other platforms from getting games. (Someone mentioned that Steam did the same thing in their infancy. Also, I have another question; why is it ok for Sony and Microsoft to make exclusive games for their consoles but not ok for these PC platforms to do so?)
They have been invested in by a Chinese company, Tencent. (Someone mentioned that it isn't that big of a deal, but idk.)
They are actively anti-linux for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Steam's, Epic's, Ubisoft's, Battle.net's and whatever-EA's-thing-is-called-now's sites are also slow as shit. What is it with these platforms which prevent them from loading a webpage in less than 10 seconds?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

By making the entire thing a JavaScript monstrosity with egregious amounts of scripts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, it's likely a lot of tracking. The kind that look where your mouse is and where you scroll and stop etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What tracking does Epic need? "According to our analytics, 100% of users scroll to the free games banner on Tuesday at 5pm CEST, then leave and don't come back for a week. What a mystery!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Oh thanks for the reminder, I hadn't opened epic so I can scroll down to the free games banner in a while.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You’d be appalled how much people in corporations earn for making these obvious observations…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In Steam's case, the slowness looks more like a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application (similar to Electron) with a lot of extras bolted on. It's just not built for efficient use of resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The website, outside of the client is still slower than it used to be a good few years ago