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Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No thanks. We don't need a spyware on our systems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yes I am aware of that launcher but I don't want to support a shady company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can you claim these freebies in that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You can claim the freebies on the website from any web browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah used it before not the best to say the least m8. I tried to play celeste and couldn't even get past the intro although when heroic does work it works wonders

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can I have the longer version?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Epic copied some Steam files to its own folder without informing the users. When people found out, Tim Sweeney ( CEO of Epic Fail) said that it was a bad implementation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And the Steam files where Spyware?