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Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

they pay devs millions

I mean I see this as a good thing. I have to keep a separate launcher around but... at least that dev is getting a great deal and will probably be able to support that game for a while (or start their next one)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

You don’t even need to do that. Use Heroic and you can combine Epic, GOG, and Amazon into one launcher.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah and get in return like 10 players? Only who has no faith in their game sells it to the demon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are apparently 270 million Epic Store accounts made.

Now most of them don't buy anything and are probably installed on a whim for one free game ad now they've forgot their password, while a good chunk of them are probably 12 year olds playing Fortnite who don't even look at it and hurl all their pocket money into V-bucks so the rest of us get free games, but it's not an insignificant amount.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You know it also counts ghost accounts made while linking your steam to epic or when you use a game with EOS and it creates a dummy account yee?

like 10 players

Buying the game. I thought it was obvious but I guess not