Thread 719180158

>>719180158 (OP)
Tendie seethe thread

>DRM slop or DRM slop
I reject the premise of your question.

>steam
Good UI, not traded publicly, has all my games, pushes for fair competition, spends money developing linux and funding other scientific research. Has sales regularly, doesn't try to buy out exclusives as a desperation move.
>Epic
Terrible UI, tries to desperately pull users in with shitty free games no one wants, tries to force you onto its platform by paying developers for exclusives(never works they make more on steam) has no use unless you're a faggot zoomer who plays fortnite.

Why would anyone use epic other to be a contrarian hipster who doesn't want to use steam for shallow reasons.

The Epic launcher genuinely sucks ass

>>719180567
>tries to force you onto its platform by paying developers for exclusives
they haven't done that in years

>>719180646
Lords of the Fallen 2

>>719180158 (OP)
Not even a contest.

>>719180807
Roles should be switched
Linuxtroons can't go a second without shilling linux to a windows user

>>719180709
>shit game
Doesn't count

>>719180965
All twelve of them?

>>719180567
>has no use unless you're a faggot zoomer who plays fortnite.

>>719180807
>>719180965
>>719181162
Linux users brainwash people to switch to their OS the same way trans folks groom children to change their gender

>>719181336
You can always go back to the BabyDuckOS. You can't uncut your dick.

Tim's more of a vocal whiny bitch but I got 400 free games on Epic and and their game monetization doesn't rely on gambling. Unlike CS, TF2, and Dota they actually put in big work themselves into Fortnite instead of offloading it to spec work from the user base.

Client's still laughably bad but I prefer the handling of library view over Steam's as well. Well, I preferred the list view of the Steam from a few years ago but the new Steam client looks like shit.

>>719180478
this, the coin stands on it's side

>>719181609
You can't even check the amount of hours played for an epic game unless you install it. The ui and library is beyond trash.

>>719180158 (OP)
>Gaben spends hundreds of millions of dollars on deep sea research
>Timmy spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lawsuits

>>719181751
Yes you can

>>719180158 (OP)
What debate? Is this another tribalism forced meme?

>>719180158 (OP)
Steam is a tolerated evil. Epic is an untolerated evil.

Monopolies are never a good thing for the consumer. Just be glad that there are several platforms

>>719181769
>Timmy spends hundreds of millions of dollars on lawsuits
More like he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on shitting on video games by making Unreal engine worse and worse

>>719181820
>have to switch to the shitty library mode
I stand corrected. No clue why they don't just have that info available on the normal library view. Pic related has an uninstalled game vs a installed game. Bizarre that they hide the info when not installed.

>>719181936
i legit miss the late 2000's when steam wasn't a monopoly yet and we had multiple options like amazon, gfwl and direct2drive

>>719182243
Listing all your games in a list isn't shitty, though I get the appeal of having them all shown as box art

>>719182261
Decent bait. Almost made me green arrow.

people laughed at EGS for not having a cart for 3 years but i think not having any form of gifting games after 7 years is even worse

>>719180158 (OP)
One exploits his cult for free, another tries to help the industry

I never understood why so many faggots wanted so desperately for the Epic Store to fail, instead of hoping it improves to being an actual competitor for Steam, and thus better for consumers as a whole.

>>719182243
Listing all your games in a list isn't shitty, though I get the appeal of having them all shown as box art

Steam doesn't show your hours played in that view either, it doesn't even show the game name so you're only reliant on the box art being clear

>>719181936
thats why we need to let timmy form a monopoly he controls!

>>719182371
The problem is that it wastes a ton of space. You can see far more games in the list view on steam (like 25+). The list view on epic shows even less than the tile view. It's retarded.

>>719180158 (OP)
>console war faggotry
Go back.

>>719182447
Apparently it's coming this year, but this is Epic we're talking about so it'll be 6 months late and barely work.

>>719182527
>w-w-w-why does no one support the store run by a retard who actively hates the PC market and only made his store because he was proven wrong about the market dying

>>719182596
Sorry, I deleted that post to add more here >>719182528
though after making *this* post I realized you can make a shelf on Steam that shows hours played even in the box art view lol my bad

>>719180158 (OP)
gog
failing that steam, epic offers nothing except free shovelware you may as well just pirate

>>719182527
anyone non retarded knew exactly what timmy was going to pull

>>719180158 (OP)
Both?
Why is this an either or thing?
I get the free games epic gives out or when it has something exclusive. I buy most stuff on Steam because it has good sales. I buy stuff from GoG when it has a better deal or when its not available elsewhere. I pirate when I think its more convenient than paying. Why would I have brand loyalty to a storefront?
You would have to be some sort of jewish golem to feel loyalty to a corporation.

>>719182527
It had 7 years to improve. Took them like 5 or 6 years to add a fucking shopping cart. They clearly stated they have 0 interest in adding forums or user reviews or anything that can hurt (((sales))). There's no hope this shitfest will ever be good.

>>719182527
I just hate Tim Sweeney and his fake ass champion of developers schtick.

>>719182720
Sometimes you run into a situation where the devs are retards and different stores have slightly different versions making multiplayer incompatible. That happened with the gog version of homeworld remastered not being able to play with steam versions. It's not common but it's another way that can fuck you over when your friend buys it on a different platform.
Not really steam/gogs fault but it's still annoying.

>>719182750
>champion of developers
Developed by far the most cancerous engine vidya industry have ever seen since the electricity invention.

>>719182873
Steam
EoS is a fucking blight on multiplayer games, ruining every thing it touches with its promise of "Crossplay" while having shit servers, shit connects and somehow it even makes P2P connections shit
t. EDF6 enjoyer, desync is a myth

>>719180158 (OP)
>debate

>>719180158 (OP)
Gaben wins easily as he created a profitable business while Epic continues to operate at a loss

>>719180158 (OP)
Gabe bows to pressue from big corporations (because fighting anything would take him away from his yacht business)
Tim takes apple and google to court and wins.
I'm with Tim.

>>719180158 (OP)
Theres no debate lol. Epic isn't in the running and never has been.

i claimed like 100 free games from epic and never played them

>>719182527
I don't WANT it to fail. I don't want anything to fail or flop. It's just very easy to look at something and see they're making decisions that will cause failure. No one is actually interested in competition and helping the consumer
I understand that making a store that can compete with Steam is an incredibly difficult task, but Timmy's brute force tactics have done very little to actually benefit the consumer in the long run. Epic is using free shit to have users start to build a library so they can later say "Welp, I got all this other shit in my library now, might as well only use Epic now".
They're trying to speedrun twenty years of Steam investment without any of the actual quality, and Timmy has proven over and over that he does not actually want competition, he wants control

>>719182527
Really? it's not hard to figure out.
Tim made it blatantly obvious that he was trying to force a publisher first market onto PC. With that in mind, why the fuck would anyone want it to succeed, when any temporary improvements will just be paving the way to the customer getting fucked in the ass later?