Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #21
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 week ago
The funny thing about the Epic store giveaways is that i still often buy the games elsewhere so that I don’t have to bother with Epic’s stupid login. This stupid service forces me to re-login every month or so. It’s so annoying.
So, good luck converting me to a paying customer.
Before you do that, try replacing the EOSSDK-Win64-Shipping.dll file with an emulator kinda like Goldberg.
Fun fact - Nemirtingas made exactly such a thing, but it’s really hard to find a copy! I ended up finding it in “Nucleus Co-op”. Get the zip, don’t bother installing it, just yoink it out of the utils folder.
I can personally attest that “it hasn’t cryptolockered me as of this moment”, for what that’s worth.
The problem isn’t so much logging in to play. Most of the games I play on Epic are DRM free. But having to log in just to see all my games or install one.
honestly, it’s mostly the same for me, as well. I might play a game on epic, give it a whirl and if I like it, put it on my wishlist, hoping it’ll appear in a bundle anytime soon.
boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Epic games is pretty anti consumer as far as things go anyway
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Epic hasn’t gone out of their way to make life hard for Legendary/Heroic, yet. I guess that is a kind of support.
My biggest regret with Epic is buying Eastward there, and then whoops the DLC sidestory is available on every store but there. I can only read that as meaning “nobody makes money selling games, to the end user, on EGS. The only money you’ll make is from selling to Tim Epic for giveaway or an exclusive.”
Am I going to put any more money in Epic? No. Am I going to take the freebies? Sure.