Return to the remote island nation of Tropico in the next installment of the critically acclaimed and hugely popular ‘dictator sim’ series. Expand your Dynasty’s reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century.
I never understood all the G*mer pants-shitting about Epic. It's not like console exclusivity where you have to buy a $500 system to play them, you literally just install a free thing
Or if you just mean taking advantage of all the freebies and pirating everything else then yeah, that's cool
It scanned Steam's local friend cache to help you add your friends to the EGS client, instead of asking the user to link their Steam account and perform the process explicitly through the API Valve provides for that exact purpose. Seeing as the client was, and still is, quite barebones I'd chalk it up to developers using a hacky shortcut than actual malicious intent from Epic. On the other hand, it takes literally five minutes to use Valve's API after you've read the documentation so idk. Not sure if it's been changed since.
This was, of course, blown out of proportion by capital g gamers.
On Windows there is Playnite which does exactly that flawlessly. Game installing launchers are here to stay, get used to it. Blame it on Windows for having a terrible "native application" installation and launch process (and on the publishers I guess). The Epic Games store is also better than Steam because it doesn't really do much else besides install games and you can just launch the games from the EXE (and install them anywhere).
The most annoying thing to me is the handful of indie games I've funded that have said they will launch DRM free on multiple platforms, only to revise that and be Epic store exclusive on launch. I know its hardly the end of the world, especially since they took refunds from people who didn't fund it with that in mind, but its still very aggravating, especially since that kind of thing has happened to me a few times now.
Just makes me not want to use their platform at all, especially at a time when I'm trying to use as few game platforms as I can, just to keep my computer uncluttered. I miss the days when all games were just an .exe, and you didn't need to log into an account and drink your verification can to play, and I still try to go out of my way to buy games that allow you to run them like that when I can.
CDPR is cancelled, but their GOG galaxy launcher is pretty solid. You just link all your other game services to it and it put all your stats and games in one pretty ui.
Also has psn/xbox integration so you can see if you have a game on another platform as well as all your trophies/playtime stats
I can also just wait out the exclusivity period and play other stuff in the meantime. I don't have super strong feelings about Epic, but my issue is that they're using money to bully their way into a market that doesn't need or want another platform. There's no value-add. They're not trying to get me onboard by offering me something, they're trying to force my hand by holding third-party titles hostage with licensing agreements. I'd rather not play along.
That’s the appropriate use of the Epic store.
I never understood all the G*mer pants-shitting about Epic. It's not like console exclusivity where you have to buy a $500 system to play them, you literally just install a free thing
Or if you just mean taking advantage of all the freebies and pirating everything else then yeah, that's cool
supposedly they had some kind of invasive shit in their platform which spied on you or something? i dunno i already have that its called a cell phone
also tencent has stakes on epic so there is that classic china bad thing in there too
china is going to know i'm thirsty for plump older women, heavens to betsy!
china will decide to put a hot plump older woman as their american ambassador with this knowledge and destroy the west
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thirstwelcome my new thicc ambassador with juicy mommy milkersIt scanned Steam's local friend cache to help you add your friends to the EGS client, instead of asking the user to link their Steam account and perform the process explicitly through the API Valve provides for that exact purpose. Seeing as the client was, and still is, quite barebones I'd chalk it up to developers using a hacky shortcut than actual malicious intent from Epic. On the other hand, it takes literally five minutes to use Valve's API after you've read the documentation so idk. Not sure if it's been changed since.
This was, of course, blown out of proportion by capital g gamers.
That was probably just Valve propaganda.
mostly find it annoying that i need like 5 game clients to download shit
is there any sort of open source app that just merges it all together
On Windows there is Playnite which does exactly that flawlessly. Game installing launchers are here to stay, get used to it. Blame it on Windows for having a terrible "native application" installation and launch process (and on the publishers I guess). The Epic Games store is also better than Steam because it doesn't really do much else besides install games and you can just launch the games from the EXE (and install them anywhere).
Under communism...
The most annoying thing to me is the handful of indie games I've funded that have said they will launch DRM free on multiple platforms, only to revise that and be Epic store exclusive on launch. I know its hardly the end of the world, especially since they took refunds from people who didn't fund it with that in mind, but its still very aggravating, especially since that kind of thing has happened to me a few times now.
Just makes me not want to use their platform at all, especially at a time when I'm trying to use as few game platforms as I can, just to keep my computer uncluttered. I miss the days when all games were just an .exe, and you didn't need to log into an account and drink your verification can to play, and I still try to go out of my way to buy games that allow you to run them like that when I can.
Epic is at least somewhat unobtrusive for now. You just have to use their launcher to start the game. No crazy always online Ubisoft login yet.
You don't have to use their launcher either. You can install the game anywhere and just launch from the EXE.
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CDPR is cancelled, but their GOG galaxy launcher is pretty solid. You just link all your other game services to it and it put all your stats and games in one pretty ui. Also has psn/xbox integration so you can see if you have a game on another platform as well as all your trophies/playtime stats
If you're using Windows, Playnite is much better.
I can also just wait out the exclusivity period and play other stuff in the meantime. I don't have super strong feelings about Epic, but my issue is that they're using money to bully their way into a market that doesn't need or want another platform. There's no value-add. They're not trying to get me onboard by offering me something, they're trying to force my hand by holding third-party titles hostage with licensing agreements. I'd rather not play along.