Epic Game Store - The Other Free Game Thread

[thisismyusername]

Install malware  by CODEX to own the libs Epic the Chinese government.

I trust CODEX more than Epic Games Store. At least with CODEX, it's Russian hackers than Chinese.

[kingv]

I guess I look st that feature list and epic has all of the stuff covered that I actually care about except for multiple controller support (depending on what that even means).

It has cloud saves, friends lists, chat, and 3rd party keys and that is the basic functionality that you need.

I feel like that list is listing a bunch of dumb stuff that doesn’t really matter just to inflate the list.

Like does anybody really care that EGS is missing badges and trading cards?

[thisismyusername]

I actually care about except for multiple controller support (depending on what that even means).

PS4, X-box, Nintendo, Steam Controllers.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Steam controllers 

[kingv]

I had 2 steam controllers at one point.

I could never figure out how to make them work well.

[MMaRsu]

Does it also scan your pc on itself without your consent?

almost certainly. most programs that interact with other programs will "scan" your pc

does it import steam friends etc without my permish? nah

[nachobro]

neither does epic

[Don Rumata]

why pirate a timed exclusive instead of just waiting

The same reason why people pirate Game Of Thrones episodes instead of waiting for them to come out as dvd box set: Because you can.

[Coax]

That table was originally from ResetEra where the OP was desperate to prove Steam was the superior client The initial version was more amusing since the feature list was based solely on features Steam had and excluded any features other clients/services had that Steam didn't. They also initially put 'No' on various cells which some clients/services did have. In its current form though it's a fairly worthwhile comparison.

Tbh I think some were more upset recently at Epic pulling the carpet from under the feet of games slated to be released on Steam and accepting pre-orders like Metro and some other title, which snowballed at the perfect time to create a greater unease with Epic's exclusivity agreements.

Personally I don't have much of an opinion on Epic mostly since the exclusive games don't excite me but if they improved their features more rapidly I think it might be more compelling once some titles I'm interested in come along.

[BisMarckie]

Steam trading cards.

Some sucker paid 5 bucks for one of my cards. Don‘t knock the hustle.

[thisismyusername]

Steam controllers 

You don't need to use those under the Steam client. You use the same rebinding functions that the Steam controller launched with for PS4, X-box, and Nintendo controllers a la Keyboard and Mouse rebinds.

All without needing a third party driver like DS4Windows. Any game that is using the Steam controller API allows this. Something the Epic store and other clients do not have (thereby needing third party drivers).

This may be something that isn't "huge" for most folks, but it's a simple convenience.

There's also Proton support built-into the Steam client. Something Origin, Uplay, and Epic Games Store has yet to do (to support Linux folks). Meanwhile, Valve is putting money into the DXVK developers coffers to improve that which is actually helping WINE out in the long-run in regards to getting Windows apps/games onto Linux.

[Bebpo]

Oxenfree is up for grabs on EGS now.

The Witness will be the next free game in 2 weeks which is absolutely amazing as the game is the best puzzle game in history.

The free games might get me to sign up if they start getting stuff I don’t own already on multiple platforms.

[benjipwns]

why pirate a timed exclusive instead of just waiting

The same reason why people pirate Game Of Thrones episodes instead of waiting for them to come out as dvd box set: Because you can.

I was assuming they still wanted to purchase it, just on Steam or whatever.

[Chooky]

man I was really hoping for some good coherent arguments against this, but "I don't want to double click an icon" sounds like some cartman-shitting-into-a-bucket level laziness

[benjipwns]

  EPIC GAMES STORE

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Oxenfree is pretty meh Borys

Axiom Verge though   

[BisMarckie]

Oxenfree is pretty meh Borys

Axiom Verge though   

Oxenfree is a pretty weak offering. You can buy it from key resellers for like 50 cents. 

[nachobro]

hm free is free i guess, but you could get all those games for under $5 total

[BisMarckie]

Thimbleweed Park, Slime Rancher, Axiom Verge and Subnautica were not bundled before and weren‘t sold at heavy discounts. Getting them for free was pretty neat.

[nachobro]

slime rancher was definitely in a bundle at some point a year or two ago cause that's how i got it

[BisMarckie]

Yeah, it was.  But What Remains of Edith Finch wasn‘t. So my point still stands. 

[benjipwns]

Best part is it gave me that message, then it logs in and is all "NEED TO UPDATE" so it does and then gives me the message again. Five minute queue because they can't handle people logging into play Fortnite and/or get the free game.

[benjipwns]

It was like I was back on Fileplanet trying to download the latest hot demo/patch. Thanks Epic Games for the memories.

[thisismyusername]

It was like I was back on Fileplanet trying to download the latest hot demo/patch. Thanks Epic Games for the memories.

Narrator: Then Benjipwns uninstalled the Chinese spyware and went back to playing games on Steam.

[benjipwns]

unlike you guys I'm sharing myself with the Chinese so that when the time comes to reward their allies

[chronovore]

But why would I take your opinion into account  you watch animu and have an animu avatar

Maybe the order needs more waifu dragons?

If we're discussing taste in games, shall we address your obsession with Ad Hominem?

[nachobro]

now that was a good xbla game, ms chasing nabbing the hot newgrounds exclusives in the early 360 days

[pilonv1]

Why do I get invites from people with blank names every day?

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Thimbleweed Park, Slime Rancher, Axiom Verge and Subnautica were not bundled before and weren‘t sold at heavy discounts. Getting them for free was pretty neat.

I bought Thimbleweed and Axiom Verge for Switch with Switch tax.

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But why would I take your opinion into account  you watch animu and have an animu avatar

Maybe the order needs more waifu dragons?

If we're discussing taste in games, shall we address your obsession with Ad Hominem?

Liking anime and having a big titted anime avatar is relevant in a discussion about taste in videogames, as its indicative of ones taste. It directly adresses somones tastenor lack thereof. I don't venture off topic.

If there is anything else you would like to add feel free 

[Cerveza mas fina]

One could say you are the one making this ad hominem chrono, as it has nothing to do with taste in games or taste in general.

I'm not saying Rax opinion is invalid to me due to something arbitrary like having a bee allergy (or the way he communicates like you are doing now), but by account of his taste.

[BisMarckie]

Get defensive about the Order brehs.

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Get offensive about the Order though 

[Cerveza mas fina]

Wow thats very offensive

[chronovore]

But why would I take your opinion into account  you watch animu and have an animu avatar

Maybe the order needs more waifu dragons?

If we're discussing taste in games, shall we address your obsession with Ad Hominem?

Liking anime and having a big titted anime avatar is relevant in a discussion about taste in videogames, as its indicative of ones taste. It directly adresses somones tastenor lack thereof. I don't venture off topic.

If there is anything else you would like to add feel free 

One could say you are the one making this ad hominem chrono, as it has nothing to do with taste in games or taste in general.

I'm not saying Rax opinion is invalid to me due to something arbitrary like having a bee allergy (or the way he communicates like you are doing now), but by account of his taste.

No, look up "ad hominem." I was attacking your logic, not your character.

You're making broad-stroke attacks on someone based on an anime avatar, which I'd normally support, except that you're positing it relates to taste in videogames as opposed to forms of passive entertainment, i.e. anime. At a stretch, I can accept that it relates to media/entertainment, but if I accept your judgement, I'd have to stand ready to defend my oglaf avatar as though it relates to my penchant for vidya, when it speaks more toward my appreciation for adult-focused sequential art.

Anyhow, cutie, know your fallacies. I'd go so far as to suggest you'd do well on TheBore to make your arguments falla-centric.

[Himu]

It's weird how Lager questioned Rah's tastes in games while using his avatar as an example. Rah's avatar happens to come from one of the greatest games ever made and isn't even really animu.

[Himu]

Having multiple digital store fronts is bad for the consumer.

.....wut?

I don't see how this is hard to understand.

Game companies can be greedy fucks. On digital streaming services we already witness properties being moved from service to service. Multiple games already have flip the script and moved from Steam when it was available for pre-order, to Epic's store. If you "buy" a game from Steam that Epic manages to coax into joining their storefront, they might have a condition that comes with "it can't be on steam". They might take their games *off* of Steam then. They already do fucked up shit with one store front. Square Enix had taken the original Sleeping Dogs completely off Steam when Definitive Edition came out to get you to buy Definitive Edition, even though the older version was better for people with old computers. If it's something that allows co-existence, something like GOG and fills its own niche, that's fine. But when it comes to competition? With digital products you "buy" (aka rent)? I bet you if you already bought a game on Steam that you do not get access to it on Epic's store.

[Rufus]

Why do I get invites from people with blank names every day?

Fortnite scammers, probably.

Haven't had anyone try to log into my account lately. So that's nice.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Ok guys you got me 

[chronovore]

Having multiple digital store fronts is bad for the consumer.

.....wut?

I don't see how this is hard to understand.

Game companies can be greedy fucks. On digital streaming services we already witness properties being moved from service to service. Multiple games already have flip the script and moved from Steam when it was available for pre-order, to Epic's store. If you "buy" a game from Steam that Epic manages to coax into joining their storefront, they might have a condition that comes with "it can't be on steam". They might take their games *off* of Steam then. They already do fucked up shit with one store front. Square Enix had taken the original Sleeping Dogs completely off Steam when Definitive Edition came out to get you to buy Definitive Edition, even though the older version was better for people with old computers. If it's something that allows co-existence, something like GOG and fills its own niche, that's fine. But when it comes to competition? With digital products you "buy" (aka rent)? I bet you if you already bought a game on Steam that you do not get access to it on Epic's store.

Or it's possible (read "probable") that the new version of Sleeping Dogs has a number of error/bug fixes built into it, and they don't want to support two versions of the game, even if it's not as friendly to users of old computers. Publishers are free to revise new sales, but storefronts are usually required to keep purchased software available through the marketplace for people who have previously purchased the title. Are you saying that's not the case here?

[benjipwns]

No, it's the case. Sleeping Dogs stays in your account if you got it before, but you can only purchase the Definitive Edition now. Cindi's just upset about this currently.

I've never had a game with a major publisher revoke keys on Steam. Only some bundle garbage. One was an accident, the other was the creator having some kind of meltdown and revoking everything he had made from everywhere.

[Joe Molotov]

Liking anime and having a big titted anime avatar is relevant

newsfeed

[chronovore]

Ok guys you got me 

 

[Trent Dole]

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  EPIC GAMES STORE

Petition to change thread name to Epic Games Store takes no fucking logins

[pilonv1]

Why do I get invites from people with blank names every day?

Fortnite scammers, probably.

Haven't had anyone try to log into my account lately. So that's nice.

That's what I assumed but wasn't sure. I don't even play it.

[kingv]

Transistor was amazing.

[MMaRsu]

I couldnt really get into it really but eh it certainly had a cool artstyle and vibe to it

The Witness was def amazing imo tho

[HardcoreRetro]

More like The Shitness.

[thisismyusername]

OH NO NO NO

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *uninstalls*

[Himu]

i was considering going pc + nintendo exclusive next gen but with epic pulling shit like this fuck that, i might have to get a ps5 after all

[Himu]

I thought this was the Epic store thread sorry. It originally was at least.

[naff]

i was considering going pc + nintendo exclusive next gen but with epic pulling shit like this fuck that, i might have to get a ps5 after all

 

exclusivo deals totes fine when you're a hardware and software platform holder though?

[thisismyusername]

OH NO NO NO

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *uninstalls*

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/epic-promises-support-for-rocket-league-on-all-platforms-no-announced-plans-to-pull-it-from-steam?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad PR
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh! Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad PR
Rah rah ah-ah-ah!
Ro mah ro-mah-mah
R.L. oh-la-la!
Want your bad PR

[MMaRsu]

i was considering going pc + nintendo exclusive next gen but with epic pulling shit like this fuck that, i might have to get a ps5 after all

 

exclusivo deals totes fine when you're a hardware and software platform holder though?

when they are your first party games sure

[benjipwns]

  FREE WORLD OF GOO IN 2019

[Rufus]

Yeah, that gave me a good sharp exhale. But then I remembered that Super Meat Boy was one of the earlier give-aways. Padding the Subnauticas and Witnesses with old stuff everyone owns.

[benjipwns]

On the upside, this deal paid for a "remaster" patch that's being given to everybody who owns it. Sorta like happened with Borderlands.

[pilonv1]

Is there anyone on earth who doesn't own World of Goo? It's been free so many times before.

[Trent Dole]

I think I stole it on the Wii? It's not even anything that exciting.

[benjipwns]

Fun fact Epic still has issues with UPlay integration so they can't sell Ubisoft games XD

They still sell Ubi games, but you need to Google for their Epic store pages, they just have dissppeared from the store front page.