I suddenly understand why there is a gamer circlejerk against Epic Games, but not against Steam which in my experience is equally as shitty of an end-user experience
All I know is I’m a casual dabbler who has used both, and found both to be equally annoying.
Exclusivity licenses aren’t really anything new. Is Taco Bell evil for hogging Baja Blast? Aren’t these gamer Chuds free-market libertarians and liberals? Whatever happened to consensual contractual agreement between two parties? Exclusivity Agreements are part of free enterprise bitch
Yeah I agree its nothing new. Technically speaking Sony buying a studio to make exclusive PlayStation games is "more exclusive" than Epic paying to keep Hitman 3 only on Epic (which does not affect consoles). People are used to one and not the other. That being said I would have no reason to play on Epic over Steam. Steam has better Linux compatibility, makes it easier to share games with other accounts, lets you play "local co-op" online with other people who don't own that game.
There's also legitimate complaints about Epic's security. After a leak it was revealed that usernames and passwords were stored in plaintext. I don't trust a company that lazy with their security with my credit card info.
Is epic games owned by China?
Tencent partially owns Epic
I suddenly understand why there is a gamer circlejerk against Epic Games, but not against Steam which in my experience is equally as shitty of an end-user experience
Besides that Epic also created exclusivity licenses with some games on PC that prevented those games from being on Steam. Which people didn't like
Steam generally has a lot more features
All I know is I’m a casual dabbler who has used both, and found both to be equally annoying.
Exclusivity licenses aren’t really anything new. Is Taco Bell evil for hogging Baja Blast? Aren’t these gamer Chuds free-market libertarians and liberals? Whatever happened to consensual contractual agreement between two parties? Exclusivity Agreements are part of free enterprise bitch
Yeah I agree its nothing new. Technically speaking Sony buying a studio to make exclusive PlayStation games is "more exclusive" than Epic paying to keep Hitman 3 only on Epic (which does not affect consoles). People are used to one and not the other. That being said I would have no reason to play on Epic over Steam. Steam has better Linux compatibility, makes it easier to share games with other accounts, lets you play "local co-op" online with other people who don't own that game.
There's also legitimate complaints about Epic's security. After a leak it was revealed that usernames and passwords were stored in plaintext. I don't trust a company that lazy with their security with my credit card info.
:xinternet: = gamer?