I buy everything I can on GoG due to lack of DRM. If something is not on GoG, I buy from Epic simply because they pay a bigger share to developers than Steam. When I buy a game I want that money go to the devs, not middlemen.
GoG also integrates well with Epic, so I can have all my games there.
I support gaben simply because of what he has done for linux gaming. Epic CEO is openly hostile to whole ecosystem and that’s why his company wont get a penny from me. And thats the joy of the whole PC gaming industry - we have a choice of who we want to support and how we want to support, and in the end we, as a consumers, will win, because of competition.
I can hazard a guess as to why. Might be something to do with the fact that I only actually paid for three (heavily discounted) games in my entire Epic Games library. The rest of my library were giveaways. I suspect a lot of customers’ Epic libraries are similar.
As a game developer, Epic gives more profits than Steam can to developers. That said from a consumer standpoint, the store is slow, laggy, unintuitively laid out, and overall, I don’t think most consumers enjoy their time on the Epic store. I can say the opposite about Steam and Itch. I have many memories of browsing Steam before it got far too big to browse nicely. Steam’s system now makes it harder to just dig in and find gems. They have created tools that attempt to do it for you but it’s not worth it in my opinion.
Itch is much nicer to browse and everything you find is likely some small gem and it just depends on the level of polish to that gem.
I’ve been with steam since the start. I used to play the pirated version of half life 2 ( I bought it when it came out ). You could do lots of funny physics things with their new engine, it was just so cool. Anyway yea it’s difficult to browse steam. Whenever I press back, it forgets where I was in the list…
They did that years after it was released. I’m pretty sure they’ve been unprofitable for longer than that and it’s more likely that it’s because they’re forcing their bullshit on users.
It’s not people taking free games, it’s that the free games aren’t working. People have told me for years about all the free games they give away and I and everyone else I know still refuse to even download the app much less download free games because of their bullshit.
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