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.

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I will never get this sentiment. It’s a fucking game launcher, it downloads the games quickly and launches them. I just don’t get this hate boner people have for it.

I played Red Dead 2 and Control through it and had absolutely zero problems. You all just want a steam monopoly for whatever gods forsaken reason.

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17 points

Their checkout still doesn’t have a cart, it takes forever to load, the UI is terribly clunky, the library sorting is terrible (how do you fuck this up), it’s resource heavy, and I’d be willing to overlook all that oof they had an in game overlay with web browser.

Aside from the terrible experience, they have profit seeking investors, one of which is Tencent. We all have seen were it goes when profits are priority over consumers.

Not a hate boner. Just genuine dislike of the platform as it stands right now.

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2 points

They do in fact have a cart I fucking used it last week to add two free games and check em out at the same time.

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3 points

When did you last use it to pay for a game? Just curious, I find most people are more tolerant of issues with something they didn’t have to pay for.

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1 point

Nice. I’ll have to take a look next time I’m on there. I didn’t see anything that showed it was available last time.

Good on them.

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12 points

I personally am not willing to support their exclusivity stuff.

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7 points

Because it doesn’t work

The launch is a piece of shit that doesn’t do the 2 thing it’s supposedly good at. Downloads are excessively slow and game launching doesn’t work half the time. It’s so slow that it has a noticeable effect on boot times.

Yes, I’d rather a steam monopoly than have to use that shit launcher ever again. Steam is a useable piece of software that doesn’t suck donkey cock.

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-5 points

It’s a skill issue if you couldn’t get it to work.

I couldn’t break the damn thing.

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8 points

It doesn’t work on Linux at all

It never worked in the first place. It’s so slow that disabling brought seconds back to my boot times.

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