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Love to hear that honestly 👀

6? ;p

Looking forward to giving this a read asap.

In truth, I chose to uninstall EGS specifically because of the terrible decisions made by Mr. Sweeney, decisions he is double downing on and forcing upon EGS devs and users. Whatever Tim or the company chooses to do, whatever game is made free, whatever deal they offer, I will not be re-installing.

come on, now you're just showing off

The only game I've bought that's on EGS is Horizon Chase 2 And I bought it through Humble Bundle, not realizing it was EGS-exclusive until afterward Every other game in my library there was one of the free ones

Hate it so much

Launchers are a big thing to people for reasons I don't understand, but I do know people really don't like EGS. Seems this was news to Tim Sweeney though. I feel weird that I knew more about his company than he did, I'm not the CEO.

i've seen a few games that i wanted when they were excluisive on egs, and the occasional free game i'd like, but the idea of installing it on my PC feels like deliberately stepping in a cow turd

i think i have like 130-something games on egs and have never paid for one lol

Not even sold enough to say half a dozen lol

itch.io cultural victory, light mode too stronk

I'll be the first to admit I bought a few games on EGS back in its infancy but I haven't done so in years. There's no reason to anymore.

I think the exclusive backlash wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't so aggressive with it. When they started sniping kickstarted games and games that were like two weeks away from coming out is when I think people got really pissed

yeah that's the main issue, it felt like they were wasting money buying indie games instead of spending it actually making the store good There were also multiple games that were promised to have a day 1 steam launch that went back on their promise because of the epic buyouts which also stung

Love your takes! could you add alt text in the future? (Bsky has a setting to show a reminder for media lacking it) I've got some followers that require alt, so I'm not reposting you but would love to

They really are holding on to Alan Wake 2 out of pure spite, huh?

That's how Square-Enix treated Kingdom Hearts's exclusivity stint on EGS There were rumors when it later launched on Steam that internally they were treating the Steam release as the real PC release, basically pretending the EGS exclusivity period never happened

FIVE???

When it does give away games I cannot be arsed to log in.

You sold FIVE??

It is very strange to me that epic went to great and vocal lengths to create an alternative to steam and they put in a store front that let you kind of clumsily purchase games and then said "Okay, that's enough. Wrap it up and never look at it again, we have achieved feature parity."