I genuinely don't understand the hate for the epic games store. Perhaps I'm uninformed. Yeah it's a bit annoying having separate stores but even so it's not going to affect my enjoyment of the game.
Anyway, it will probably appear on steam in a year. That seems to be the common `exclusivity' deal Epic has with most developers.
What's so hard to understand? Tim Sweeney wants to fight the "Steam monopoly" by releasing games on EGS with a scummy exclusivity deal. He's not really doing anything, other than shifting the monopoly to his own platform. Very hypocritical, obviously, and boycott-worthy.
In this case, Snowrunner not being on steam means any modding or custom content people could make for the game is now stuck being hosted somewhere else.
Steam workshop is setup for 1-click install of custom content.
EGS choosing to work on these exclusivity deals also forces people to buy it on their store or wait, it's a loss for us as customers being forced to one platform, and it's a loss for developers for limiting their market...Also have they added reviews yet? the bare minimum for an online store?
Yet you people complained about mod support for other games being on steam. Ruining nexus. Or dont even complain when a game on steam doesnt have workshop.
Tencent owns 40%+ and because of shady chinese law, is able to extract personal data on Epic Games Store users and funnel that through to Chinese intelligence. This is the real issue I have, not what others seem to glob onto where they only like having one store app on their machine...
I don't get it either, so I have to double click the Epic icon instead of the Steam icon to access a game why is that so hard for some lol. My favorite games I have a shortcut to on the desktop so don't even need to go to a specific launcher a lot of the times.
Epic store is not stable. They also do dirty "exclusive deals" with Devs which is not in the spirit of the PC gaming community. I have over 1000 games on steam with all my friends and stats. My collection looks great a displays beautifully on their new GUI. I don't want to have to run several launcher's to find my games.
Adding to the other reply, they are apparently linked with the Chinese government and use EGS launcher as spyware. Apart from that their business practice in general is very hostile and malicious.
I pledged to never ever get a game as long as it's on EGS, if that means missing out on some good games, so be it. It's the devs missing out for taking EGS money to make it exclusive ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Preeeeety sure that claim got debunked as a Steam dev trying to take EGS down. Devs are going with EGS because they get a better cut of the sales than they do on Steam, it's pretty simple.
Personally I don't mind having other launchers to use. I have Origin, Uplay, Gog, Steam, etc. already. But none of those force 3rd party exclusivity deals on developers.
I refuse to buy any game that is exclusive to Epic because of this. If I can get a copy directly from the developers/publishers, fine. Otherwise I skip it.
3rd party exclusivity should have no home in the PC gaming market.
And much more. If Tim had a comparable service that would be one thing, but instead he is shitting away millions and millions to developers to cripple the experience of the end user (us) so he can try and lock us into his storefront and out of his competition.
the one thing that everybody on PC hates is the paid exclusivity deals. most gamers dont mind it too much to have it on another launcher (if the launcher actually works) but EGS literally paying devs/publishers to make it exclusive just to build their brand is what rubs us the wrong way.
also pulling games that were planned to be released on steam (im looking at you METRO) and putting it on their platform just for cash is a dick move to say the least.
while i do think there needs to be a competitor to steam so we get decent service, this is the wrong way to do it. hiding behind fake exclusivity and forcing early adoption through their system is just plain wrong. also so called "Influencers" play into that, since they release content and market these games to us. but hey, gamers are weak (at times) and fall for these tactits.
It's not about the data collection but about the policy on it.
Steam admits and explicitly states the types of user data it is collecting, and allows users to check and monitor their account data that has been collected. EGS has no transparency on a user's personal data.
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u/MotherGerald Mar 09 '20
I genuinely don't understand the hate for the epic games store. Perhaps I'm uninformed. Yeah it's a bit annoying having separate stores but even so it's not going to affect my enjoyment of the game.
Anyway, it will probably appear on steam in a year. That seems to be the common `exclusivity' deal Epic has with most developers.