I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?
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Meanwhile Valve pushing
unrelatedunregulated gambling to everyone, including children, through their case unboxing systemwrote on 18 May 2025, 20:23 last edited byCounter Strike is a M rated game
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Counter Strike is a M rated game
wrote on 18 May 2025, 21:03 last edited byOh so they have no responsibility at all then. Might as well stop checking IDs when people enter casinos or buy alcohol because they’re not supposed to if they’re underaged.
They make a deliberately addictive mechanic that they know ruin peoples' life, and they also know they have a big young audience, but you think that’s fine? Shame of you, really.
It’s also in TF2 btw
And whatever you say, it’s still exploiting adults. In many countries, like France, casinos are legally obliged to detect addicted people, prevent minors from playing, and let people opt out legally, and never allow them to gamble afterwards. Valve blatantly doesn’t respect this and takes efforts to bypass the law. They got banned in Belgium and France, and used a legal loophole to avoid being banned in France.
You’re acting like a Valve fanboy. Be objective. Apart from that, Valve is an overall good company for the video games industry, but they act like a piece of shit in other places.
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Oh so they have no responsibility at all then. Might as well stop checking IDs when people enter casinos or buy alcohol because they’re not supposed to if they’re underaged.
They make a deliberately addictive mechanic that they know ruin peoples' life, and they also know they have a big young audience, but you think that’s fine? Shame of you, really.
It’s also in TF2 btw
And whatever you say, it’s still exploiting adults. In many countries, like France, casinos are legally obliged to detect addicted people, prevent minors from playing, and let people opt out legally, and never allow them to gamble afterwards. Valve blatantly doesn’t respect this and takes efforts to bypass the law. They got banned in Belgium and France, and used a legal loophole to avoid being banned in France.
You’re acting like a Valve fanboy. Be objective. Apart from that, Valve is an overall good company for the video games industry, but they act like a piece of shit in other places.
wrote on 18 May 2025, 21:13 last edited byParents should do their damn job and prevent their kids from playing what they arent supposed to, or teach them right from wrong.
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Parents should do their damn job and prevent their kids from playing what they arent supposed to, or teach them right from wrong.
wrote on 18 May 2025, 22:05 last edited byTeens aren’t kids. Gambling is addictive to everyone.
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Meanwhile Valve pushing
unrelatedunregulated gambling to everyone, including children, through their case unboxing systemwrote on 18 May 2025, 22:40 last edited byWhataboutism makes you look like an idiot
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I hadn't heard about a game being made unplayable after they bought it, that's seriously shitty. What game was it?
wrote on 19 May 2025, 01:22 last edited byIt was a while ago, I don't remember off the top of my head which specific game I'm remembering. Doing a brief search, it appears that this happened to Unreal Tournament and Rocket League, though it appears that the games still work for the people who bought it before the unlisting. I think the concern was losing functionality, especially for server-based or multiplayer games
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Newell is a billionaire like all the rest at 3.5B, but Sweeney is our savior fighting the good fight at 4.5B. Okay /s.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 01:38 last edited bySweeney is not lionized as a false saviour.
Newell is.
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I get that Steam is where everything and everyone is at. And that the user experience and functionality is best there BUT having another player to try an compete with Steam is a good thing, right?
If anyone can try, it's the Fortnite Bank.
So, why the hate?
wrote on 19 May 2025, 03:19 last edited byImma try to add something that hasn't been mentioned in the top comments.
Epic's refund policy is shit, comparable to nintendo. I buy a game, it doesn't work, I don't want to waste my time trying to figure out why, so I ask for refund, Epic said no. I've never had this problem at a physical retailer, and I've never had this problem with Steam.
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Sweeney is not lionized as a false saviour.
Newell is.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 03:32 last edited bySweeney certainly thinks he is.
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I get that Steam is where everything and everyone is at. And that the user experience and functionality is best there BUT having another player to try an compete with Steam is a good thing, right?
If anyone can try, it's the Fortnite Bank.
So, why the hate?
wrote on 19 May 2025, 04:04 last edited byanother player to try an compete with Steam
Here is the mistake. It does not trying to compete. It only tries to catch as many fish in its bucket as possible, while leveraging (burning) Fortnite money.
It's a wasted effort, and it will never come close to Steam like this. It may even die along with Fortnite, or degrade further.
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Epic doesn't support my operating system.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 04:45 last edited byWhich operating system is that?
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I get that Steam is where everything and everyone is at. And that the user experience and functionality is best there BUT having another player to try an compete with Steam is a good thing, right?
If anyone can try, it's the Fortnite Bank.
So, why the hate?
wrote on 19 May 2025, 04:54 last edited by baggie@lemmy.zipBig issue for me is the direction towards incentivised exclusivity. I can tolerate it on consoles (barely nowdays) because you're paying someone to use your hardware instead of another, and you have to specifically develop for console hardware. That takes time and effort.
Different distribution platforms do not have such issues, and I don't want exclusivity anywhere near PC gaming, unless you're self publishing. Frankly if they weren't banging on about steam using the industry standard % take, while they themselves are trying to undercut and use garbage tactics, I would have absolutely no problem with them, same as Ubisoft and EA's garbage store.
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Meanwhile Valve pushing
unrelatedunregulated gambling to everyone, including children, through their case unboxing systemwrote on 19 May 2025, 05:27 last edited byWrote unrelated instead of unregulated, which changed the meaning of my sentence. Fixed it.
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Whataboutism makes you look like an idiot
wrote on 19 May 2025, 05:42 last edited byYou’re saying Valve acts for gamers, not for profits. I’m proving you wrong. You’re just entitled and love Valve.
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Sweeney (the CEO of Epic) says that he wants competition with Steam, but many of his actions point toward that he really just wants to be the guy at the top (ie, he wants to be the monopoly instead of Valve). He's taken a fair number of anti-consumerist stances, which vary from understandable to clearly anti-competitive.
Epic is known for making exclusivity deals with 3rd party studios in which Epic bribes the studio with money, and in exchange, the studio does not release their game on Steam for 1 year.
At several points, this occurred after a studio already said that they will release on Steam, and the studio would have to walk back and delete their Steam listing.
Iirc, at one point Epic bought out a studio and had them remove the Steam listing for an already-released game, causing the game to be unplayable for people who had already bought the game
Edit: this apparently happened twice (Unreal Tournament and Rocket League), but it appears that the games still work for the people who bought it. I think the concern was actually that Steam players would lose functionality due to not being supported anymore after the unlisting
The Epic Game Store released in a non-functional state, and development on it is extremely slow. The first impression of the broken store likely still influences many people's impression of the store. But it's still missing many features that many gamers want to see in a store.
There were various rumors when the store first launched that it contained spyware. My understanding is that those rumors never fully got disproven, especially since some of the claims were supported by at least some evidence
Epic does not support Linux, and Sweeney has openly said that he does not plan to support Linux until it becomes more popular. He did immediately jump on board with supporting Arm though, which caused a lot of Linux gamers to think that he just doesn't want to support Linux
Sweeney is a pretty abrasive person and iirc he made a lot of concerning statements on his social media. Several of them (as mentioned above) indicate that he wants to dethrone Valve so that he can be the monopoly instead
Overall, many gamers are in support of more competition in the game store space. Unfortunately, many gamers also think that Epic is an untrustworthy competitor, and they believe that Epic has a serious chance of making the gaming industry worse if they become more popular. As a result, many would prefer for Steam remain the monopoly rather than to take a bet on Epic.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 06:19 last edited byYeesh I knew Epic was run by dick heads but I didn't know they were this slimy, I'm glad I've only bought one game on their platform (Subnautica below zero), and that's only because I got the original Subnautica for free from their weekly giveaway and loved it. I'll continue to get the free games from them as it's good to take a chance on games that you otherwise might never learn about.
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Sweeney (the CEO of Epic) says that he wants competition with Steam, but many of his actions point toward that he really just wants to be the guy at the top (ie, he wants to be the monopoly instead of Valve). He's taken a fair number of anti-consumerist stances, which vary from understandable to clearly anti-competitive.
Epic is known for making exclusivity deals with 3rd party studios in which Epic bribes the studio with money, and in exchange, the studio does not release their game on Steam for 1 year.
At several points, this occurred after a studio already said that they will release on Steam, and the studio would have to walk back and delete their Steam listing.
Iirc, at one point Epic bought out a studio and had them remove the Steam listing for an already-released game, causing the game to be unplayable for people who had already bought the game
Edit: this apparently happened twice (Unreal Tournament and Rocket League), but it appears that the games still work for the people who bought it. I think the concern was actually that Steam players would lose functionality due to not being supported anymore after the unlisting
The Epic Game Store released in a non-functional state, and development on it is extremely slow. The first impression of the broken store likely still influences many people's impression of the store. But it's still missing many features that many gamers want to see in a store.
There were various rumors when the store first launched that it contained spyware. My understanding is that those rumors never fully got disproven, especially since some of the claims were supported by at least some evidence
Epic does not support Linux, and Sweeney has openly said that he does not plan to support Linux until it becomes more popular. He did immediately jump on board with supporting Arm though, which caused a lot of Linux gamers to think that he just doesn't want to support Linux
Sweeney is a pretty abrasive person and iirc he made a lot of concerning statements on his social media. Several of them (as mentioned above) indicate that he wants to dethrone Valve so that he can be the monopoly instead
Overall, many gamers are in support of more competition in the game store space. Unfortunately, many gamers also think that Epic is an untrustworthy competitor, and they believe that Epic has a serious chance of making the gaming industry worse if they become more popular. As a result, many would prefer for Steam remain the monopoly rather than to take a bet on Epic.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 06:35 last edited byDon't forget that Sweeney himself said that the Epic store is slow.
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Which operating system is that?
wrote on 19 May 2025, 06:40 last edited byTempleOS
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Threatening Steam's monopoly. And the unwashed Stockholmed masses hate that.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 07:51 last edited bywe've been rumbled!
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I get that Steam is where everything and everyone is at. And that the user experience and functionality is best there BUT having another player to try an compete with Steam is a good thing, right?
If anyone can try, it's the Fortnite Bank.
So, why the hate?
wrote on 19 May 2025, 09:30 last edited byCompetition is good, yes and no.
Exclusivity is not competition, it's lock in for me. So epic should get it's head out of its ass and offer games on both platforms equally. THAT is competition.
I am not a fan of steam. Not a fan of having a library that could change at anytime at anyone's whim but mine. So I prefer gog (yes I know some titles are drm free on steam and it's not perfect on gog either / this is just for context).
Anyhow steam is well established and forcing me to use your store and launcher will just lead to me ignoring you (doing that for origin, uplay, epic) because it's a luxury problem.
Same with all that streaming shit. Also there are other ways if you piss off people a lot, yarr!
The companies forget who made them big. And for epic I count myself in on that massively, still owning game boxes of e.g. Xargon (look it up, and my EU? box is not to be found on ebay) and equally for EA.
And I will not stand for anti consumer behaviors. Got enough money to spend at my age but theyre not getting it like this.
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Competition is good, yes and no.
Exclusivity is not competition, it's lock in for me. So epic should get it's head out of its ass and offer games on both platforms equally. THAT is competition.
I am not a fan of steam. Not a fan of having a library that could change at anytime at anyone's whim but mine. So I prefer gog (yes I know some titles are drm free on steam and it's not perfect on gog either / this is just for context).
Anyhow steam is well established and forcing me to use your store and launcher will just lead to me ignoring you (doing that for origin, uplay, epic) because it's a luxury problem.
Same with all that streaming shit. Also there are other ways if you piss off people a lot, yarr!
The companies forget who made them big. And for epic I count myself in on that massively, still owning game boxes of e.g. Xargon (look it up, and my EU? box is not to be found on ebay) and equally for EA.
And I will not stand for anti consumer behaviors. Got enough money to spend at my age but theyre not getting it like this.
wrote on 19 May 2025, 09:52 last edited byEpic wants temporary monopolies and that's already antitrust.