It really is wild how fucking rabid some Gamers get about Epic like yeah, Epic is a shitty company in general (like most companies) and they've deliberately made their store awful (since they already have a full-featured, highly usable marketplace in their launcher for UE4 dev assets; the game store in contrast has the barest minimum of features and is much less usable) because some business school cultists decided it would sell more, but they're also doing a lot to subsidize independent and hobbyist devs with free assets, grants, and flat payouts to primarily indie devs for primarily old games through the free weekly game giveaways.
I don't think I'd ever call them "good," but they're at worst no worse than Valve and certainly nowhere near as bad as EA, Ubisoft, or Actiblizzard. And speaking of unusable launchers, has anyone complaining about the Epic Store ever used Origin or Uplay? Like the Epic Store is lacking features and is a pain to try to find things in if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, but it actually works. Origin and Uplay just straight up barely work under ideal conditions, and Origin breaks constantly and refuses to work at all.
It really is wild how fucking rabid some Gamers get about Epic like yeah, Epic is a shitty company in general (like most companies) and they've deliberately made their store awful (since they already have a full-featured, highly usable marketplace in their launcher for UE4 dev assets; the game store in contrast has the barest minimum of features and is much less usable) because some business school cultists decided it would sell more, but they're also doing a lot to subsidize independent and hobbyist devs with free assets, grants, and flat payouts to primarily indie devs for primarily old games through the free weekly game giveaways.
I don't think I'd ever call them "good," but they're at worst no worse than Valve and certainly nowhere near as bad as EA, Ubisoft, or Actiblizzard. And speaking of unusable launchers, has anyone complaining about the Epic Store ever used Origin or Uplay? Like the Epic Store is lacking features and is a pain to try to find things in if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, but it actually works. Origin and Uplay just straight up barely work under ideal conditions, and Origin breaks constantly and refuses to work at all.
My brother is a huge anti egs g*mer guy but he downloads the free game every month lol so not that anti-egs