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How much have you spent on the Epic Games Store?
- Thread starter Layell
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Bunch of freebies that I haven't even touched since I don't have the launcher installed. That's about it.
And that will never change.
Why is that? Can someone explain to me where all the negativity toward the EGS in this thread is coming from? Did Epic do something that caused Era to cancel them?
I like Steam too, I really do. If I can buy a game there, that's typically my storefront of choice, but it's completely unrealistic to expect that Steam won't have competitors. The EGS is a fully competent, competitively priced online gaming store front, what exactly is people's problem with it?
Control + Season pass
Hades
Before We Leave
So maybe slightly above 100 cause everything at the time was new but had $10 discounts outside of the Control season pass
Hades
Before We Leave
So maybe slightly above 100 cause everything at the time was new but had $10 discounts outside of the Control season pass
I just get the freebies, but I don't care about buying stuff on there. I just don't buy a lot of games.
It's just a launcher, after all.
It's just a launcher, after all.
Yeah, I'd love to see an answer to this bc the hate seems extremely unwarranted, unless I missed something.
They got me work the $10 coupons. Bought control, tetris, start wars squadrons, gtaV and RDR2 so far,
I've bought a handful of exclusives or games that were exclusives at the time. Hades, Control, Outer worlds, and most recently Hitman 3. Probably some other smaller indie games as well, but I'd guess under 200 all in. I still greatly prefer Steam and the exclusivity bs did bother me at the beginning but I don't really care anymore. I'd rather play the game now than wait a year.
The zero Euros shall remain exclusive to the EGS.
There are many different reasons. Some are based on morals, some are based on economics and yeah, some are based on fanboyism. The discussions are now going on since over 2 years and I think you'll find enough threads to read the basic arguments. One reason for example is that they left the PC space 10 years ago with their president claiming that most PC players are pirates and that it is up to Facebook (yeah, that facebook) to save PC gaming because Epic won't and doesn't care.
Pretty simple... Valve strives to make Steam a better platform with features that benefit the users. EGS competes by paying companies to keep their game off of Steam. I have 0 interest in supporting that. I also don't think you'd find many people that would agree with you about EGS being a "fully competent" storefront. It's less than bare bones.
Bought Jackbox 3-7 (excluding 5) and Hades, all for less than $15. Only give them my money for the absolute best deals because I'd much rather use Steam and refuse to support paid exclusivity.
Hades, Satisfactory, Outer Wilds, Snowrunner, Tetris Effect and Control are the biggest releases I picked up from EGS but there's a ton of smaller titles I've also picked up in their sales, so easily over 200.
Three of those I listed are literally 3 of my favourite games of the last 5 years and they were EGS exclusive. I don't give a fuck what shop I use, a brilliant game is a brilliant game.
Three of those I listed are literally 3 of my favourite games of the last 5 years and they were EGS exclusive. I don't give a fuck what shop I use, a brilliant game is a brilliant game.
Mainly because they bring nothing to the table.
Let me toss out this quick bit. What if Microsoft or Sony stopped improving their eco-system and relied on just moneyhatting games to get customers. Doing nothing to improve the experience of their users. Would that be ok with you?
I would rather support a company that is at least trying to make my experience better.
I just like to have everything in one place and believe that Steam is 'safer' for the foreseeable future.
And Epic timed deals sometimes annoy me (like KH now), so I created an aversion on top of that. I opened exceptions to GOG and BNet, but never will to EGS.
El zilcho.
Hitman 3 almost made me cave, but even then, it would have been a physical key and not on EGS. But they went and fucked that up.
Doubt anything would make me cave. That was a special case where I wanted PC progress so I couldn't just go to PS5 or XBox easily. It would need to be a monumental exclusive that had balls to the wall amazing raytracing like FF7R2 or something.
Hitman 3 almost made me cave, but even then, it would have been a physical key and not on EGS. But they went and fucked that up.
Doubt anything would make me cave. That was a special case where I wanted PC progress so I couldn't just go to PS5 or XBox easily. It would need to be a monumental exclusive that had balls to the wall amazing raytracing like FF7R2 or something.
got division 2 for like $5 with a coupon. It was $3 on Uplay not that long after
It redeemed on uplay and I don't have to use epic to play it so that was nice.
I've actually finished a few of the free games, and played a ton of Dauntless. Launcher sucks but the games work at least.
It redeemed on uplay and I don't have to use epic to play it so that was nice.
I've actually finished a few of the free games, and played a ton of Dauntless. Launcher sucks but the games work at least.
I wouldn't call EGS "fully competent". It.. works. But it's missing so much that even the Nintendo eShop has and its just embarrassing.
Valve/Steam works really hard to improve their services surrounding the storefront (input options, VR, etc). Epic does not of that, they just pay developers for exclusives and sit back and don't improve YoY, features-wise or financially.
I don't care about platform warring in the least so probably about £100 total + as many free games as I remember to claim.
I don't usually get freebies for 3 reasons:
- my exprience with EGS ahs been terrible. I got troy total war (i like total wars in case my avatar isn't clear) and it is jsut painful to play in EGS. For example i like to use controller to command some stuff when watching replays like a movie. Bam CTD. Play for 2-3 hours CTD. and otehr issues. Obviously this isn't just on EGS but also some problem on my PC that has a conflict with it
- I have to use steam overlay becaue EGS doesn't have any features.
- Have enough income taht i can spend 100-200 €/year in games without an issue
To me getting the freebies means making an account and getting EGS which it means getting into EGS MAU, another statistic Tim Sweeney gets to that about, don't want that even tho I'm less than a fly on his radar.
Zero.
Used the egs when it was the unreal store back then. Did not install it with the new pc back then. Kept it that way.
Why?
They basically killed unreal (tournament) and I'm still bitter
I hate exclusive games. I get it for first party games (on either platform) but this approach is a big no for me.
Honeypotting with freebies feels so lousy.
Same with their overall attitude of being the savior of small devs and stuff
Used the egs when it was the unreal store back then. Did not install it with the new pc back then. Kept it that way.
Why?
They basically killed unreal (tournament) and I'm still bitter
I hate exclusive games. I get it for first party games (on either platform) but this approach is a big no for me.
Honeypotting with freebies feels so lousy.
Same with their overall attitude of being the savior of small devs and stuff
