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Do the free games count as purchases?
Since 3rd party games hit $400 million in sales last year, I'm guessing no, they must be referring to actual sales.
Obligatory fuck Tim Sweeney.
Epic is a trash heap now. They will continue to receive none of my business.
Epic’s corporate overlords don’t have an original thought rattling around in their collective heads. Their entire business model is to flail around, copy anything that seems remotely successful with a reskin, and hope it sticks. Not even free products will convince me to download their laucher, or anything they put their mierdas touch on.
Would have been nice if steam had any real competition ...
I'm not interested in giving away cash to a company that doesn't respect it's competition, it's customers or it's employees.
Sorry, its, its, its
Simple test, replace it like this: their competition, their customers or their employees
but why
Why unfortunate? Surely competition to Steam is a good thing?
No... Not intrinsicly. Epic is about as anti consumer as you can get. And they are even more anti developer then steam is.
They just ass fuck devs via unreal engine and eac along with poaching games for extremely fucked exclusively deals. So the epic store it self looks "better" because they can abuse it as a loss leader and basically not invest into it at all.
Epic store isn't real competition. It's a competitor only so far in that it's a digital store. But its like comparing Walmart to bestbuy.
If epic had its way everything would be worse then it so it can be on top. Not because it's better but cause it's made everything around it worse so it looks better by comparison.
It's the entire reason the joke valve does nothing and wins. Because they don't give a single fuck what other stores do and just focus on themselves and make sure they arnt abused for the services they offer.
So the worse thing you can say about valve is they have some restrictions on devs that prevent them from abusing services to the point it degrades the consumers experience.
Other then that it's just industry standard stuff that sucks, mostly because outside of only steam no other store actually justifies the costs and downsides of digital distribution.
Understandable, have around 100 games from Epic... Haven't paid a dime tough.
Bought my first game on epic this year: Alan Wake 2.
lol the salty downvotes
It wouldn't call it salty so much as disgusted down votes. Salty implies someone's jealous, and why the fuck would anyone be jealous of someone else buying a game regardless of where it's from. Makes no damnable sense.
On the other hand it's well known the majority of gamers that frequently online discussions anywhere on the internet dislike the epic store and see it as awful. So calling them disgusted down votes fit.
Yea, definitely felt dirty buying from there, but it's the only store the game will ever be available from, and Remedy makes fine games
Wait, does remedy have an exclusivity deal with epic?
For Alan Wake 2, yea
Epic entierly funded the game, and as far as I know, that includes it being solely on EGS
Disgust, lol
it’s just another store people
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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