Memes

Steam: Here's a sale on a bunch of catered stuff

Epic Games: Here's a premium game and you cannot purchase it on any other platform because we paid the the dev to take the money and run.

Ich will Unreal Tournament spielen!!1!

Compared to stuff like GoG, where multiple open source launchers exist. Those launchers work with steam too, but you are required to have the proprietary Steam launcher installed.

In this case I think it's mostly to get people to use the App regularely and so expose more people to the store.

And for that price I'll jump through some minor hoops to get them onto my Steam Deck.

Never going to be able to play more than a small percentage of my library anyway, might as well add another game to the pile.

I treat my PC like a console at this point. Don't use it for anything but gaming because of all the insane stuff games are doing with essentially making you install spyware. Figure I'd give them as little data as I can. I even have it on a separate network that can only communicate with the internet, not the rest of my LAN.

What access toes it actually have? Or is this a flippant comment?

You don't actually need to have Epic installed to take advantage of the free games: https://github.com/derrod/legendary

Even worse, Epic's been dropping linux support from games they buy and then they prevent others from implementing it by not supporting it in their launcher and EAC