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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

The one thing I like about them is they recognized why people really wanted to stick with steam: they have a large established library and don't want to bounce back and forth.

They took that and said "ok we'll give you free games every week until you have a large library here and won't want to leave!"

Jokes on them, I now have a large library of completely free games on epic and still use steam for the games I want to buy because I refuse to support their exclusivity bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I get the games on epic but I haven't even bothered playing them because I game exclusively on linux and just have not bothered with lutris / heroic etc. Proton with steam is just effortless and after years of tinkering with wine back in the day I want the simplicity

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Heroic also makes it effortless, but I agree with all your points.

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