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Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO
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This post did not contain any content.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.
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If epic put money into bringing linux gaming decades ahead of where it was instead of hating on it I would have jumped ship even if they didn't make linux supported hardware that lives on my recliner.
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Pointless to try competing? I guess we'd know if there was ever a real competitor on the field.
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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.
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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.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.
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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.
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Steam is a self perpetuating monopoly because people love having all of their toys in a single place. Just one more confirmation that it’s pointless to try to compete until regulators take a look at this situation.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.
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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.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.
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Totally left us hanging. What a tease.
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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!
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> (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"
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literally just said I would reasses if he died OR things went that way
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literally just said I would reasses if he died OR things went that way
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Makes sense. By the time a game shows up on a giveaway it has been out long enough that there's lot of discounts for it. So small budget price that might be less than the price of buying lunch is worth it for some to not deal with Epic. And the giveaway is good promotion, since even people like me who don't have epic launcher installed will still be aware of it and claim it through a browser. Ends up being free marketing among those who subscribe to gamedeals type communities or visit sites like isthereanydeals. Gives games an opportunity to get a second wind.> By the time a game shows up on a giveaway it has been out long enough that there’s lot of discounts for it That's often but not always the case. For example, the first ever giveaway in Dec 2018 was Subnautica, which was released in Jan that same year. Occasionally other stuff has only been out a couple years, which means it's showed up with discounts before but probably not deep ones.