I like Epic as much as anyone but why would you want your library filled with bloat?
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Of course i know him that's me.
This is the point though. They have beefed up my Epic Games library to the point where if I got banned from Steam, I would have a viable fallback.
That cannot be understated. It has a network effect and makes adopting it as a new platform versus a legacy one with two decades behind it, far easier to adjust to.
I love that at least someone is really trying other than MS with their poorly supported windows games store attempts.
It's pretty easy to avoid being banned.
No shit.
You have to be a dick to even be remotely worried about this kind of thing.
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Absolutely. But if someone got you in one of those steam inventory scams or stole your access token, it sucks if you lose your entire game library and have all your eggs in one basket.
So having a bunch "backed up" so to speak with Epic gives some peace of mind. VAC bans aren't common for most users, but they do make mistakes sometimes.
It will always be weird to me that microsoft sells some games both on the microsoft store app and the xbox app, but other games exclusively through the xbox app.
I'm thinking even farther back to their wretched Windows Live and then Games for Windows Live platform (now dead). MS is one of the biggest companies on earth and couldn't find a cohesive way to migrate that game ownership forward.
My friend too have over 100 games. He never even play them but thankfully to him I don't have to make Epic Account.
I too have basically all of them. A few have caught my interest on PC. More than a few were a big pain to get working on Steam Deck even with Heroic Launcher.
Only 200? Try harder, noob.
(I'm at 410, and my Epic library is now three times the size of my Steam one, lol.)
There's no way I'd catch up to my Steam library, there's like 1,200+ games in there at this point. 2nd biggest is GOG with ~300 but I've been using Steam since HL2
- Steam: 1325
- GoG: 174
- Epic: 406
Epic and GoG I've not bought a single thing from either of them, that's all free shit. For Steam, most of that is stuff that's been accumulated from Humble Bundles and just from having an account for ~20 years now. If I were to just quit my job and game full-time for the rest of my life, there's probably more games to play in my collection than I have years left to live.
Hmm. Let's see here...
Steam: 147
GOG: 174
Epic: 286
I've paid for about 2/3 of the Steam games, probably a quarter of the GOG ones, and maybe two or three of the Epic ones.
I have 10 free games from GOG too and without DRM!
Yup, I'm at 372 free games on epic, plus 3 bought ones, and 2 key activations. It's amazing.
I got the tomb raider games and the screaming baby package delivery hideo Kojima game I can't remember the name of right now, and some stuff I've never played, and that's it. Worth it.
Death Stranding. Good game, I bought it on steam on discount and it's great.
It gave me a new way to look at things, like good art does.
Yeah, but then you'd need the epic store/launcher, so...
There is legendary which is command line and Heroic which is legendary with gui without telemetry from epic. Heroic also does gog but gog doesnt require a launcher anyways.
Funfact, I have restricted work computer (windows). Certain websites are blocked and installing anything requires remote access by IT to enter admin password (they dont give admin rights temporarily). But it has pip installed.
- pip install legendary
- legendary install app-name
- legendary run app-name
You can also create a shortcut and set the target as 'legendary run app-name'. I also have over 300 games I collected from epic. I don't condone gaming on work time, but it feels nice I can run something other than browser games during compiling and other downtime.
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