I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

An exclusive on Epic Games may as well just not even exist, as far as I'm concerned. Didn't play Anno 1800 until it was finally released on Steam. Nice discount too.

Well they decide to lose customers, up to them.

If it's on epic it just isn't on PC in my eyes. Not a real game

Epic pays for exclusivity sometimes. It’s funny, I keep picking up the free epic games but I don’t think I have ever once played a single game on there.

like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

Literally anything besides not getting that game?

I say this every time Epic comes up but it remains the same.

Steam is the pro-consumer storefront. Epic is the pro-developer storefront. What Epic seems to fail to understand is that by being so staunchly pro-developer, they effectively become anti-consumer. And as a consumer, I'm just not going to spend money on an anti-consumer marketplace.

When Epic considers adding necessary pro-consumer measures like actual user reviews so I can hear how a game actual performs from real end users, then and only then will I consider Epic a real storefront viable for consumers.

If a game is only released on Epic, it hasn't been released yet. Its just in some weird alpha state until it has broader release.

I recently discovered that I can buy, download, and launch games from my Epic Games library without having the Epic Games Bloatware even installed.

Heroic Games Launcher serves as a storefront, installer, and launcher for Epic Games, GOG, and Amazon.

I don't mind it, Steam is nice but I don't want them to have a monopoly on PC games

Every time someone takes the epic deal it just makes it easier to choose which game to ignore forever

I'm annoyed when a game isn't on GOG. Epic's issue is that I use it the least and so I'm less likely to boot up a game on it unless I'm actively seeking it out.

Know what happens when I find out a game is Epic exclusive? I don't buy it for a year... Sometimes ever. Enjoy the Epic money kings, hope it's worth it.

IMO if it's exclusive to one store, sailing the seas is morally just.

There are too many games to care about the tiny amount of them that aren't available on steam.

Valve kills physical ownership of games: I sleep

Games exclusive to Origin: I sleep

Games exclusive to whatever the fuck Blizzard made: I sleep

Games exclusive to Microsoft Store: I sleep

Games exclusive to Epic: REAL SHIT

The way Coffee Stain explained it for satisfactory is that the exclusivity windfall gave them enough runway to finish the game.

If the system of temporary exclusivity in exchange for upfront development cash continues I think it's an overall win for the gaming community as games get to come out at less rushed pace and with potentially less cash generation grabs in the game itself.

🧲 time

Wait a year for the exclusivity clause to expire and it to appear on other stores.

Do you also get this upset when a game only appears on Steam?

The only games I have on EGS are the ones I collect via Amazon Prime. It's basically a game key graveyard.

But GOG? That's where all the good games come from.

Steam: If a game is not in our records

GOG: Or ours

Both: Then it doesn't exist

I feel the same, when the game is not available on GOG.

which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

Yar, me as well.

For me, its like it didn't have a release at all. There are allot more game I want to play of years ago. No fomo.

Just wait till it's on GOG or Steam, no game is worth the hassle of Epic Games store.

I ignore epic totally

I don't like it when something is only available on Epic either. I also don't like it when someone is only available on Steam - which happens far more often.

Pretty sure this is a screenshot of the upcoming game Infinity Nikki and OP must have checked before they added the windows launcher for preload.

Steam, Epic, GOG, it’s all the same to me. I’m not gonna fanboy over one platform and miss out on a game. That’s just ridiculous.

EGS buyers can beta test it for me, that's fine.

I have a friend that uses epic games. I met him on steam. I've never played an epic game even though he keeps telling me about free games or whatever on epic games.

I just wait until the exclusivity expires and then wait for it to go on deep discount because at that point I've moved on.

I wish Valve would get off their ass and make games again so they'd have a proper engine to rival UE5.

Half of Epic's gamestore wouldn't exist if this was the 2000s when people were flocking to the source engine because it was free and heavily modded

I don't mind. Fewer choices. It's only on Epic? It doesn't exist.

I refuse to use epic, didn't even have an account

what is the problem with epic? I like the weekly free games

I get it being annoying... But why is it such a deal breaker? If the game is good, why not just install it, play the game, leave it when you're done?

The other storefronts have some cool features (namely gamepass for xbox and all of steamworks and the app stuff for steam), but it doesn't really matter if the game doesn't use em.

I've never had any issues with pirating said games myself

Just circle back in a year and buy at a discount on steam XD.

Think of it as a "this game is not yet available for purchase" seal. It may also mean "we know our game is not up to standards (it wouldn't sell well on Steam), so we chose to let idiots at epic decide if they want to pay for it, and hey it worked so that's something".

I haven't created an epic account even for the free games I don't care how many awesome games they give out for free. Fuck Epic

It doesn't upset me. It helps me decide which games to avoid wasting my time and money on.

So I own some games on epic store cause they were free and I said fuck it I’ll sign up for free games.

Haven’t installed the epic games store yet, and it’s been years. The benefits don’t outweigh the drawbacks, clearly.

There's always one more option. In fact, this is the only instance I find myself using that other option now-a-days.

Steam le good, Epic le bad. Amirite? Updoots pls.

Available on both Apple and Google stores? That's a near instant pass to me, too.

I just wait, not like I don't have a ton of games to play with. Plus I get to buy it for cheap later on.

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What about Windows Store 😏

I'm happy that they're talking about moving the Unreal Engine off the platform.

Yeah, and it’s a nightmare to use with Steam link. The last epic exclusive I bought was The Expanse, but adding it as a non-Steam game to play with the link app completely screwed up the license check and locked you out of everything but the first episode.

Never again.

I know this is unpopular, but I don’t understand why people care so much about which storefront they use to buy a game. I buy it where it is cheapest.

Hell, Epic takes less of a share of the sale. It is better for devs.

For me, the social aspect of the store I buy games from is irrelevant.

I hate when companies inconvenience me while trying to disrupt a near-monopoly by my benign benefactors.

Epic games launcher is no where best as bad as anyone says. The storefront is also one of most responsive ones, especially compared to the likes of GOG.

For me, I just buy a game wherever it's cheapest. Like I got satisfactory on epic because I could get it like £15 cheaper than steam.

Like I don't understand why people are so irked by a steam alternative. It's not like it requires new hardware to play it's exclusives like with consoles. Aren't we all supposed to be against monopolies, steam needs competition, look at how shit its sales have been for like 10 years now compared to what they were like prior.

I just never buy those games. Epic released with exclusives but couldn't process payments in a number of country leaving gamers there SOL. That and some of the higher-ups there just left a really bad taste in my mouth. Anything that also releases as a timed exclusive there doesn't get a purchase from me until years later when it's more than half off (and I think I've only bought one game like that). A Steam monopoly is bad, but Epic are not the solution to that.

If there's an epic games game you want but don't want to use the epic launcher or you're on Linux, Heroic Games launcher id a good choice

Both are horrible mess, I don't really understand this deepthroating of steam their ui is horrible, they do behave like a monopoly, games by them have drm by default. Same can be said about epic.

Honestly we should probably have more places to buy games not just steam. Because remember when gabe newell dies there's no guarantee that steam will still be "good" they are still a corporation. So if epic needs exclusives to keep going we should support that. Competition between corporations is a good thing.

Man, i kinda hate the epic games launcher, it is really crap; but for me games being on epic is not problem, i just use heroic instead, it's MUCH faster than epic's slop; what i don't like is games that for some reason just refuse to work on heroic despite EOS being installed

If the list on PCGamingWiki is up to date, there aren't many Epic exclusives anymore (only 26 currently): https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_exclusive_to_Epic_Games_Store

And, earlier this year, Tim Sweeney said that many of exclusivity deals weren't a good investment while the free games have been "magical."

So, it seems like a problem that is solving itself over time. Epic will probably still have exclusives going forward, but I would expect them to target a few high-value exclusives like they got with Alan Wake 2. Or, maybe they will just do more acquisitions of games to self-publish, like they did with Rocket League and Fall Guys.

I'm sure World of Goo 2 will come to Steam someday. I can wait.

Fewer companies are falling for the Epic swindle, which is why Epic is now full on publishing games now.

I'm so salty I STILL won't buy Satisfactory.

I think competition is generally good, but i also am not a fan. Just wait it out

I can't think of any examples of the top of my head, but aren't there some games that should have thrived but we're heals back by launching as Epic exclusives?

Give it a year, Epic Games Stores exclusivity always runs out eventually.

I tried GTA5 when I made an account there. The game was given free. Didn't play for long though, and I dislike the idea of having more than Steam. (I have GOG for Sims but I don't use that either)

I tried Rocket League at work. It is fun and I'd like to continue at home...but opening up that Epic Store kinda is a turn-off for the deal.

Which game?

Epic supports third party launchers

I think Steam is the only platform I avoid that works on Linux

I mean I guess that means you don't like the game that much if your priorities are to skip it because of the store.

Other than Fortnite, what game is only available on Epic?

Edit: Thanks for the responses!!

I guess, Epic Games sales cuts seems attractive for multiplatform games with microtransaction made with Unreal Engine...

I use both Epic and Steam. That’s it. I understand your sentiment though.

They're basically announcing "We're a business, but we're not all that interested in making money."

I have a backlog of great games to play so long that I'm seeing remasters of some games on the list come out before I've played them a first time. I have no problem waiting for games to come to a different platform and go on sale.

I know playstation has been pushing more to PC but like isn't a game only for epic pretty much the same as a Playstation exclusive? Sure it's annoying but brands have always had exclusives

Gee maybe you should sue epic and make them carry other stores apps and not lock in their payment system and allow downloading steam from their store for giga karma.

That's Honkai Star Rail right?