Agreed on both points. If it was GOG and not EGS, the reaction would probably be very different. But, because people already hate Epic (for good reason), writing an article that appeals to schadenfreude makes for some easy ad revenue. People also shouldn't be idolizing corporations. They're not our friends; we're only a means to an end for them. Even if one of them doesn't overtly make that clear through its actions, all it takes is a change in leadership or a change in circumstances for enshittification to start.

While I do like the first 2 Styx games (the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?), they are quite the "quicksave/quickload trial and error patience games" and quite deep in the eurojank spectrum. The climbing in the first one is pretty jank, and in both games the character breaks 4th wall deadpool-style pretty often, enemies are dumb as bricks but will absolutely murder you once alerted enough. But on the upside, it's one of those rare stealth games where murder is not penalized at all. That said, the games are great!

Sometimes the DLC for the free game on epic costs the same as the full package on steam. So epic is an extended demo really

It's easy, but at least for me Epic forces me to login again on deck frequently, which is very annoying for quick sessions while commute. Doesn't happen on desktop, which is weird

I bought a game on steam once that I already had on epic for free. It was on sale for like $5 on steam(Hunter: Call of the Wild), and I was curious if all the shader pre-caching and optimizations steam does with the Steam Deck would have it run better with the steam version, compared to the epic games version.

An Epic win for Steam!

I’ve done some in this community it repeatedly over the course of ~2 years. If you don’t want to make an effort why would I.

Nobody cares about Linux, it has user share close to a margin of error in a poll of 1000 people. Valve employing 3 Linux devs doesn’t offset damage to consumers and devs.

There’s GOG, there’s Itch. What’s wrong with them?

Did it run better?

and the bulk of the users can enjoy being forced to upgrade to ~~hardware with even more spying being the only difference just to run a shittier version of their old operating system~~ rental cloud compute and game streaming. I'll reassess when gabe dies or if they start firing off u.s. politics level red flags but worst case I have drm free/stripped copies of every game I might play again or recommend on offline hdd and tape.

„Gabe wouldn’t do that to me”.

I hope their Android store offers a good experience and succeeds since Play Store just sucks. But Valve pretty much made Linux gaming, if you saw what it looked like before they got involved you would understand. And they are the only big video game company that still does some good stuff in addition to the bad stuff. Epic burned 95% of their good will among gamers, if not all of it. They allowed play 2 earn and other crypto shit just to be contrarians, delisted and ended support for old Unreal games and are pretty much just The Fortnite Studio at this point, which itself is seen as an amalgamation of everything wrong with gaming by some, they struck exclusivity for highly anticipated games so that people have to buy it from them, stories of crunch and Tim defending and supporting every new technology gold rush [including Grok producing fucking CSAM](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-185520504.html?guccounter=1). It's not hard to see why people have so much animosity towards them.

GOG recently got on my radar since I heard they'd be focusing more on Linux support

I saw what it looked like. We had native ports and Wine (rebranded as Proton by Valve so that it looks like their own product). EGS is just one store. Devs don’t even bother releasing games outside of Steam and you can’t make the same argument against GOG or Itch.io.

Even if GOG gets Linux support it won’t make the devs come there.

Totally left us hanging. What a tease.

What's eurojank?

> (video games, slang) Video games from Europe (especially Eastern Europe) with ambitious concepts but lacking in execution and sometimes exhibiting unintended glitches. as per Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eurojank) I was under the assumption the Styx -devs were german, but apparently the studio is French. Either way. I also don't recall any specific glitches, but the first game has a bit stiff climbing mechanics where you can (and will) do some unintended jumps to void etc. Basically "AA game" instead if "AAA big budget game"

literally just said I would reasses if he died OR things went that way