If $'s was my only consideration, I’d pirate the game.
If my valid options are paying $25 to Valve, installing the Epic malware or dealing with pirate sites, I’m sending money to Valve.malware? bro you can redeem the games on their website and use an alternate launcher to install them.
I refuse to play games on epic simply because I hate Epic and I won’t go into detail. Rather pay Steam for the game any day.
That’s fine and perfectly valid, Tim Sweeney is a dick, I just get perturbed if people call a fairly innocuous piece of software malware. Like if nothing else at least the devs are making a chunk of cash for these freebie giveaways. I even saw something the other day where a dev said they saw Steam sales double because of a free giveaway on Epic.
That’s the same story you’re commenting on lol.
real lemmy moment
would you let me go with “it was a joke”? 😂
I don’t get this. Probably because I don’t grab those ‘free’ games from Epic. but… Why buy the game on steam if you already have it? Can you not play it on a steam deck through steam all the same?
Steam just works better. Their cloud save is reliable, and library organizing is actually a thing. I can see someone using the free Epic game as a sort of demo. Plus, if they really liked they game they may want to support the developer
Yeah an SSD just crapped out this weekend, reinstalled Linux and steam and was back to my save spot in my game. That alone saves so Mich time and effort of backup retrieval or playing 100 hours over again
Totally agree. Plus if there’s DLC or mods you wanna mess with you often use the Steam game as a jumping off point
The article suggests that people are willing to pay to have all their games in one place.
A not-insignificant amount of people would rather buy a game they just got free than have to remember to open epic.
That sounds like such a massive failing on Epic’s part to make an attractive launcher/platform.
It launched in a terrible state and they took ages to make it even tolerable tbh. I used it anyway for free games but I get why a lot of people want nothing to do with it.
Because its easier on Steam, at least for some (on Linux, or no hassle on Steam Deck in example) with more features if you care that too. Often the games are on sale on Steam too, so its not like paying full price. I think what is actually happening is, that people read about the game, find it interesting, the articles talk about it, people ask or want to try, because their friends tried maybe. And then they buy it on Steam, because they do not care giving a little money (me included), and don’t want to mess around or use Epic.
Back then when when the GTX 970 was brand new, I got Witcher 3 on GOG for free buying the card. A little later I purchased it on Steam, because I wanted to have it on Steam. And because the updates were somehow broken on the old GOG launcher… But that’s another story. The point is, lot of people prefer Steam over the other stores / launchers for multitudes of reasons and buying the game is not a big deal for most. Depending on the price off course.
People hate Epic* games.
I do t think that’s what’s happening. It being free on Epic made people discuss it, then people saw that and purchased it on Steam. That’s my assumption at least. I’m sure there’s some people who just wanted it on the Steam launcher, but I’d bet on that being a minority.
It’s been great advertising for sequels. I got 20XX free on Epic, then bought 30XX on Steam when it came out. Great games.
Yeah. That’s why demos are a thing.
This is actually the whole idea, right? That having your game free on Epic is good advertising for the game.
It’s just surprising that it works!
The whole idea isn’t the advertisement on itself. The idea for the publisher / developer is, to take the money from Epic, as it seems to be a lot. And for Epic this is obviously a reason to get users into the eco-system. That is the basic idea behind it. That games get free advertisement alongside, is a nice bonus effect.
Oh I see, I don’t think I realized Epic paid them for the free games but that seems obvious now that you said it!
I have never played any of the free games I got on Epic. It happens regularly that I discover a game I bought on Steam, I already owned on Epic for years.
I don’t care. The platform is bad, no one uses it, you can’t out-Steam Steam.
The only platform I prefer to Steam is GOG. Fuck DRM.
