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made me chuckle

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I've never understood the hate for Epic Games Store. Without Epic cross platform gaming would have never happened on consoles.
Yeah dude is a twat and has some shitty opinions but the same people who removed about him will whine and moan about Gabe Newell having yachts.
I really just don't understand it.
If you don't want anyone to make money from games then that leaves no money left to develop games.
In fact, epic charges less than half of the listing fee for devs and publishers than any other service that lists games. (They lose money doing this, but they still do it).
Just really odd behavior in my opinion. People find anything to divide themselves over.
- The store behaves like malware, with stuff running as root in the background all the time mining your personal information, and constantly keeps re-enabling ad popups even when I disable them. At least the uninstaller works.
  
  I run it through Heroic and it doesn't have root access at all. In fact my entire gaming profile doesn't have root access to the rest of the machine which is recommended for anything gaming related even steam.
  If you're talking about on Windows then you're already running Malware in the form of Windows OS, to be honest. But since you said root I'm assuming you mean on Linux.
  
  Sure, but you realize how niche that is right? Like Heroic is literally less than .1% of Epic users.
  
  That sounds like a failing on Epic users to me. I ran Heroic on windows before I made the switch to linux. The fact that Epic gives shit away for free without even requiring their launcher is pretty insane if you think about it. A lot of the games can run DRM-free from Epic as well (the original Horizon: Zero Dawn for example).
  
  Yea, Tim Sweeney is from the old school tech cadre that believes that taking a business loss to keep the ultra-nerds happy can buy more public/community goodwill than traditional advertising.
  He’s also from old school tech in that he’s an unapologetic asshole who thinks he’s god’s gift to earth.
  
  I'm still gonna take pennies out of his pocket by taking as many free games as I can. At least most of the people involved in making games aren't assholes.
  
  That's fair but anyone can run it that way without it having root access, even on Windows.
- Steam also provides a lot more than just a store front for devs at that price, including customer support, multiplayer servers, anticheat, and forums and other social features.
  Epic also launched their store without a shopping cart (you had to buy everything as individual transactions) and put new, unreleased games up for sale at up to 50% off without permission from the devs during their first sales event, amongst other things. Like buying multiplatform games to ensure that they only launched on the Epic store. Nobody liked it when Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard, or Rockstar tried that exclusivity crap with their own launchers/storefronts, and they don't like that Epic does it either.
  Dude is a twat and his opinions unfortunately drive Epic's policies. People hated Steam when it first launched as well, but Valve as a company has consistently worked to put customer value and rights as a selling point of their products, and people appreciate them for that. Beyond Steam as a sales platform, they've been a driving force in other parts of the industry such as VR and Linux gaming.
  
  at that price
  But Epic's whole pitch was that they take a much smaller cut
- Gamers are extremely toxic nowadays. it used to be less public. now they just rage at everything constantly. and in certain circles, its expected behavior.
  lemmy gamers tend to be extremely anti-Epic Games even though there's some really good deals on there.
- Yeah dude is a twat and has some shitty opinions but the same people who removed about him will whine and moan about Gabe Newell having yachts.
  they are being fair and consistent.
  
  Odd then that most of them that hate on epic still recommend to use Steam instead.
  Some say GOG, which is also owned by millionaires.
  I'm failing to see the consistency.
  
  You like gaming on linux through Proton layer?
  Thank Valve for funding its development.
  
  Yes and I have said the same thing in other comments before.
  What about my comments made you think I don't like or support steam?
  I said that people complain about the epic games guy but also whine and moan about Gabe having yachts. Then you said they are being consistent and I said well when they recommend to use other millionaire/billionaires platforms that is not being consistent that is hating on a specific platform for the same things other platforms do (have rich people run them)
  I'm confused about what you are defending or against here.
  You can see in my comment history I have said the same thing you just said before to people anti steam. I love steam, and what it does for Linux.
  But that doesn't mean I'm against epic either.
  Do you like cross platform gaming? Thank epic.
  Hating on one but defending the other is exactly what I said doesn't make any sense. Every successful gaming company is going to have millionaires. So when I said, people hate on epic but then complain that Gabe has yachts but still tell people to use steam over epic that doesn't make any sense and is the opposite of consistent.
  
  Are you sure those are same people having all these stances simultaneously?

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