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Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.

  • De_Narm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I won’t support any store that sabotages Linux on purpose. Just earlier today I read a lame excuse for them to not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox. Of course, it’s easy not getting tempted since I don’t have a windos system to begin with.

    • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox

      I’d love to see that, because my understanding is that the anticheat software that fortnite and others use requires pretty deep access to your system that linux either can’t or won’t give them

        • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
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          11 months ago

          any idea where commentOP got their notion that supporting linux would involve “only needing to click a single checkbox”?

          • Jako301@feddit.deEnglish
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            11 months ago

            Other posts about this topic have similar claims. No idea who started the idea, but it gets mentioned a lot that ticking a box is all that’s required

    • silentknyght@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Bad take.

      I’ll remind you that Steam needs SOME competition in order to actually get better, and I can’t think of anyone else able to do it (Microsoft has kinda already tried and failed). Remember when Steam suddenly addressed long-standing issues with the client and storefront a couple years ago? That was because the EGS appeared.

      I’ll also remind young folks that the Internet was extremely negative regarding steam when it was new. Yes, I’ve been on Steam for 20+ years.

      Tldr: EGS is fine. Relax.

      Edit: clarity

      • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Also a bad take. Competition is good, and a proper competitor to steam would benefit us all, but users don’t have to support them just on the basis of them being competitors.

        I agree “EGS is bad because I want only steam” is silly, but if it’s a worse experience for the individual user or if they perceive it’s involved in non consumer friendly practices, it’s perfectly normal they are not supported.

        • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I fully support a good competitor to Steam like GOG. It may be less convenient than Steam but it has one key feature that no other shop has: no DRM.

          • Jako301@feddit.deEnglish
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            11 months ago

            Games that are sold on GOG are usually also DRM free on steam. Sometimes the steamworks DRM is required, but that’s so easy to trick that the games can still be considered DRM free.

            The only thing GOG does is pre-filtering for DRM free only.