I can’t seem to find that one comment explaining the issue with them…

But for the sake of promoting conversation on Lemmy, what’s the issue with Epic, and why should I go for Steam or GoG?

Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent… But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater 🥹… coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents… Hence I’ve always played bootleg, or pirated games.

  • wooki@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Steam cons

    • You don’t own the games, they are leased, like Sony
    • store costs to developers/publishers are insanely high for a digital distribution platform
    • early access games have very high volume of abandonware
    • mcforest@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      store costs to developers/publishers are insanely high for a digital distribution platform

      Isn’t the 30% cut what basically everyone takes? AFAIK GOG, Ubisoft, EA and all three console manufacturers take the same share.

      Besides Epic only itch.io with their choose your share system and Discord (do they even still sell games?) take/took less.

      • wooki@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Considering they have bugger all cost with distribution points being hosted for free by service providers it’s an overpriced over glorified website with online payment processing. 30% cut is massively tax for very little

    • FrederikNJS@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      You don’t own the games on any digital platform, neither steam, epic or gog. You’re only being sold a license to use it, and the license can be revoked whenever the company feels like it.

      Thisbis actually true for most of the physical media back in the day, the only difference is that they didn’t really have a method to revoke the license… But that nice old cardboard box you have in your attic, with the nice shiny plastic disc… You still don’t legally own the software on it.

      • wooki@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        So what. It’s still valid Cons for the platform.

        Stop making excuses for scamming one sided purchase agreements.