• ShadowPurge@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    They specifically went out of their way to not support Linux no way will I ever buy their games .

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      2 months ago

      Heroic is awesome for the 1 game i use Epic for (Alan Wake II). A native Epic app will probably never grace my device

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          2 months ago

          You mean the support for Linux is a bad thing and he chooses not to use Linux anymore? (whereas Linux isn’t even an operating system, but blabla) If that is the case, I don’t get the logic why.

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              2 months ago

              Alright so I’m stupid. I read it as “one more OS I can choose not to use the OS”, which is clearly not what he said. Man, I don’t know… Sorry for misunderstanding. Will leave my replies here for the lolz.

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    2 months ago

    Epic showed their true colors when their store app was caught rummaging through unrelated files and collecting Steam account data from people’s systems. (This was no surprise coming from the creators of Epic Online Services, or from a CEO like Tim Sweeney, of course.)

    Their software won’t be welcome on my systems even if they do make a Linux version.

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    2 months ago

    I guess that’s cool but Epic Games will still be at the bottom of my list of game/app stores that I use.

    For context, I’ve been using a chart of game/app store with scores based on multiple categories and sorting them into a list to keep track of which ones I should be prioritizing. With on how I currently have them rated, the Epic Games Store will go from a 1/10 to a 4/10, which means that it’s still at the bottom of my list.

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        2 months ago

        Both GOG and Steam are tied near the top of the list with 9/10 scores.

        But I should mention that since the chart was made specifically for my own personal use, it may not be the best for public use (which is why I haven’t posted it online anywhere). If I am to have it posted anywhere, I’d want to make some adjustments like giving certain categories more weight and expanding some others, maybe even add more. I probably wont though, as I’m just one person and I know for sure that my own biases will get in the way.

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          2 months ago

          Isn’t that how all good charts start out? One opinionated person makes a list of what makes sense to them and maybe attaches a methodology for how they arrived at the order or points.

          In my book, GOG would be 10, but I have never purchased a game through them, so it seems they’re not perfect after all. I wanna give steam less points cuz they are only dealing in licenses, so besides Gabe & SteamOS, they feel no better than Epic.

          So maybe Steam is a 7 for me, and GOG is only ideally a 10, but in reality I paid them as much as I have Epic ($0).

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            2 months ago

            I’ve done it. I’ve create my website and finished creating the page dedicated to game and app stores. It took longer than I was expecting but it’s in a good enough shape that I can fix any issues with it and add some more stuff to it tomorrow. I’ve also changed how I rated every app store, GOG is now 13/15 and Steam is 12.5/15. Here’s the link to the home page. I’m going to bed now.

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              2 months ago

              Dang, awesome list!!

              You made me want to check out rawg.io, but it’s throwing a cloudfare error 😅!

              I like how you break out the point categories, but I don’t understand what you were doing with the stars (they seem to appear randomly).

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                  2 months ago

                  Thanks for the hollar! I checked it out and it reminded a of a long-lost website called videoeta.com. It basically listed the planned dvd/br releases for any upcoming movies.

                  I think I like rawg. I just learned there’s a new God of War in the pipes! I’m guessing rawg isn’t a distributor, but that wasn’t clear, even though you clearly mention it above that section. I think the same scoring method sent me for a trip (no shade, just thought I’d give my 2 cents).

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            2 months ago

            I guess your right, I might relearn HTML so I can open another website through neocities. I used to maintain a website under a different name there but I deleted it, thinking that I wouldn’t use it again. I would just post it to Odysee (the Youtube alternative) since they have more than just videos but I don’t know if they’d allow me to link to websites like Nutaku.

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    2 months ago

    Can’t wait to get 20 Fortnite ads. And then an error message that Fortnite doesn’t run on Linux.

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    Good, now i can ignore it on Catchy OS…

    …Wake me whe GoG Galaxy and MO2 gets native versions for Linux

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      2 months ago

      Fellow CachyOS user (we’re like the lil’ brothers of Arch!).

      While I do appreciate GoG working on their own native launcher - is there anything wrong with just using Heroic for both GoG and EGS?

      Only tangentially related, but I specifically claim every single game they make freely available on multiple accounts - just in the vain effort of costing Tim Sweeney money, even though I am yet to launch even one.

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    If they don’t integrate Proton as part of this to allow all those Windows games to just work, and then also don’t subsequently make at least a token effort to contribute to Proton’s codebase, this isn’t enough for me to care. On the other hand, if they do actually do both of those things I may be willing to end my nigh on a decade boycott of their services.

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      This is exactly why I don’t think this will actually happen because it would require Sweeney to suck up his Valve hate and use something Valve created and considering how he’ll straight up do anything to oppose Valve that’s a lot of sucking up to do.

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    2 months ago

    Last time I checked a few years back it was impossible to put multiple items to the shopping cart, leave a review or get community help with a game.

    Is the game store good now?

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      Nope. Still no reviews, still filled with crypto stuff, janky AF, etc

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      I always laughed at this. The difference here Tim is you can VOTE and make your voice heard with the US and democracy. Microsoft has a monopoly. They don’t care as long as they get enough users to buy in, it’s financially viable to them and they force it on everyone. But hey, what do I know, I’ve been a Linux user since 2007 and I’ve been SHOCKED at what people would put up with on their PC and Microsoft’s Windows.

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    2 months ago

    It’d be pretty funny if the Linux client will be actually usable unlike the windows version

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      Yeah, when I switched to Linux, I was amazed at how much better Heroic launcher was for Epic games than the official (Windows) Epic games launcher.

      I sincerely doubt whatever they come up with for Linux will be worth it.