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The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices (www.ign.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Honestly I know people here are against Epic, but Google Play is such garbage that I welcome the epic store on Android.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I guess it makes sense, seeing as they've perfected the desktop experience.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago

Right in the nuts

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

chef's kiss

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Epic about to introduce absolutely pieces of shit crappy third party launchers even on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Jesus, I was downloading and installing packages earlier for unreal 5.4 and it basically bricks my pc until the install is finished. Infuriating.

[+] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But they didn't. Let's look at the facts:

There are alternative stores on Android since forever.
From 1, Opening a secondary store on Android was always an option.
30% they claim is abusive is the industry standard, i.e. no one is taking advantage of their monopoly to enforce that, because even in markets without a monopoly that's the amount charged.
Epic lost their lawsuit against Apple, which was the only company he was suing that actually enforced a monopoly in their platform.
Secondary stores are allowed on Apple in the EU as a result of DMA which has nothing to do with Epic.
From 5, Opening a secondary store on Apple is now an option regardless of what Epic did.

So you have one company that sued two others to be able to launch their store there, one of the companies wasn't preventing them from doing so, and they lost their lawsuit against the other one. Completely unrelated to that, the EU forced that second company to allow third-party stores. Conclusion, Epic's lawsuit has nothing to do with this announcement.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Nothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. Heck, Amazon runs their own you can load on your Android phone if you want.

[+] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (24 children)

I'm pointing out that what the article is showing (Epic opening their own app store) was always an option for them. The court ruling on Google's app store didn't enable that. It was always an option. This isn't true on the Apple side, though. A non-Apple app store on iOS would be a significant change.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The state of California also determined that 30% tax was okay for Apple to charge, so they're not very objective with their determinations.

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

One was a jury trial and the other wasn't. Google had plenty of records of their internal communications but Apple had a different practice. This article by The Verge does a decent job at highlighting the differences.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You mean the same fee every store under the sun charges? Epic is the only one that doesn't, and they pretty much just do it for marketing.

They are not the good guys. They're Elon Musk before he took the mask off, though it slips through now and then.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yeah. I've had Amazon's for a very long time. There was never anything preventing epic from making their own store. Epic was trying to make Google play store host the download for the epic game store.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The only good thing came out of Fortnite is the money to fund those lawsuits.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I have well over 300 games on Epic Games Store. I have played zero. I don't know why I keep getting the free games every week, but Steam is where I keep buying. Eventually, I'll play something on there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm the same way but use heroic games launcher even on windows if that is what you run. Its lite on CPU and you have access to epic gog and epic. if you like the games you played then by them on steam then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Heroic works great on my steamdeck, too. How I've played several games from gog or free epic games on it.

I rigged up origin on the SD before there was an easier implementation to do it, though. That was like a 94 step nightmare, but Assasins Creed Black Flag runs great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm counting on Linux support becoming better. Although I guess Heroic Games Launcher is almost there already.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Fuck epic

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Store exclusives are coming to mobile :/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Cue the space man gun meme.

It always was store exclusives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a gamer for over 40 years, I don't play games on my phone. I find it boring, monotonous, and repetitive, along with the ads, gatcha mechanics, and whatever trash they're pushing. If I want to play a game, I'll use my desktop or Switch.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I play shattered dungeon.

Game boy emulators.

TIC-80 and PICO8 games.

Native android Final Fantasy VI.

There are some good options for phone gaming.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Yeah, what we really needed in this world was Epic Games doing anything ever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Has this not been a thing for a while? What app do I have on my phone?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

TLDR: you can get it from the url http://epic.download

Looks like it only has Fortnite, Fall Guys and Rocket League on there for now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember the last time i played a game on my phone tbh

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The bastards actually built what looks to be a nice platform. I can’t wait to install a different launcher for every app on my phone!

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

Better to have competition than relying on the same launcher for every app. Monopolies are convinient but actually really bad for you.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only for EU iPhones, right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Worldwide on Android but only EU on iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe the EU will eventually extend these rules to the iPad. I’ve already tried installing from the epic website and the process is not that bad.

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

Oh nice, Fall Guys comes to mobile.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not even joking, if they honor their cut rates for Unreal Engine from the PC Store this will be very big.

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