Comment by Arkarian@lemmy.zip on Epic Games Store is offering developers 100% of revenue for six months of exclusivity

The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.

After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.

Someday maybe they will try to improve the launcher instead of burning all the money in exclusives that only pisses people off. I uninstalled that shit and don’t even bother to take the free games anymore.

The launcher launches the games and that’s good enough for me 👍

The way people talk about the epic store its like the company personally kicked their dog.

epic game stores killed my father and raped my mother!

“wow really?”

well no…but are we just gonna sit around and wait for them to do it!

Take the free game and shut the fuck up

They would have been complaining about Steam killing distributors when it released and vowing to boycott it forever. I’m old enough to remember these guys back in the day, now they’re basically sucking Gaben’s dick and bowing in front of his virtual monopoly.

There is a core difference.

A better analogy, would be shut up and eat the cheese it’s only a trap if you get caught.

It’s still designed as a trap.

We know epic has demonstrated that their anti-consumer by their public, frequent, numerous exclusivity deals for their store.

Steam had de facto exclusivity for years and I didn’t see anyone complain, weird how that goes, right?

Steam did not force any developer to make an exclusive. The developers had the choice of using every platform available to them. They thought steam was good enough.

And the reason nobody complained about steam being the de facto place to get games? It treated people fairly, it was easy, good enough. More convenient than piracy.

Why should you be happy it has the most bare functionality it could possibly have. It’s 2023. On Steam I can stream from a Linux PC to my living room, play on some Nintendo Joycons with full gyro support, have a YouTube video playing picture-in-picture and bringing up an achievement guide with one button press. Epic is just a launcher, Steam is a full-fledged gaming platform.

So…download with epic and launch via steam as a non-steam game. What’s the problem?

It will probably work fine but it’s not an officially supported use case of the software. You can’t exactly submit a ticket to Valve if something doesn’t work right because the game isn’t even on their store.

Fucking hell, don’t hurt your back carrying that goalpost mate!

The person asked what the problem was and I explained what the problem was. Why are you butting in with this nonsense?

The issue is not the launcher. The issue is the exclusivity. It demonstrates an anti-consumer mindset. The GOG, which people here have demonstrated acceptance of, is yet another launcher, the launchers less elegant to steam, and everyone is just fine with.

Funny you should mention Linux…

“Linux is so much nicer than Windows because it doesn’t have all the bloat! Yuck!”

“Epic is so much worse than Steam because it doesn’t have all the bloat! Yuck!”

The hypocrisy is strong with this one.

… What are you even talking about. I never even said the first statement so how could I possibly be a hypocrite lmao. And having features isn’t “bloat”. Your argument is just all kinds of nonsensical.

I’m not one for company or brand worship but valve is straight GOATed.

I just claim the free games and after installing them, i add them to steam.

I could launch my games without a launcher. And I prefer it that way.

Good news!

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store

Pretty much all free games they’ve given so far are DRM free and can be launched without the launcher!

Can’t wait to read the next reason why you refuse to install it!

Just use playnite you plebians

I had to request and confirm the deletion of my account to stop chinese people trying to hack it or something because I kept getting e-mails from Epig that someone in China is trying to access my account EVERY GODDAMN MONTH.

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