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Well, it seems they're important to you so I'm pointing out the hypocrisy that's all 🤷 You buy from Steam because of the features, say pirating is better than buying from Epic because of the lack of features, I point out the features they have that you don't get from pirating and now you're still being disingenuous, so that conversation can end.
lol you mean your hypocrisy? You said features don't matter. "All Epic needs to do is launch the game, that's good enough!" But now you are saying features do matter. Which is it? Taking this new stance to it's logical conclusion, Steam would obviously be the superior choice, would it not? Steam has more features than Epic, right?
Pirated games have features that Epic games don't by the way, namely the fact that you own the game and you are not limited by DRM. In my personal opinion that is worth way more than EGS achievements which are completely useless on a store with no social features anyway.
And by the way, no one believes for a sec that you send a single cent to devs whose games you pirate and no, pirating a game doesn't legally make you an owner of said game.
I don't pirate games, I buy them from Steam or GoG like everyone else because I'm not an idiot. I have absolutely zero incentive to buy from a platform with no useful features.
Eh... GOG basically has no features...
It has everything Epic has plus offline installers.
Which will requires to download the game beforehand so what's the difference between downloading and installing right away vs downloading to install later? You can still launch the games without logging in.
It's not 2006 anymore, high speed storage is cheap.
That's a terribly wasteful way of thinking, why can't we just download something once and have access to it forever? Steam allows local network installs and GoG has installers, what's Epic excuse? Don't forget, billion dollar company with 1000s of employees :)
My point is that no matter which option, the data is on your computer, it's no more wasteful to download and install right away vs download the installer and store that data to install it offline later. Heck, you'll need more space with the second option as it requires the installer AND the installed game to be stored.