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The Steam Deck has finally been surpassed — by a fork of Valve’s own experience - Bazzite turns the Asus ROG Ally X into today’s best handheld while putting Windows to shame. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A free game on Epic is too expensive as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Why? I claim them all the time on my phone, and occasionally play them through Heroic. I've never installed EGS on any of my devices, but I've played a few through Steam's integration.

A free game is a free game, but I'll never buy from EGS while they're so hostile to my preferred platform: Linux. I'll occasionally buy from GOG, but honestly, their DRM-free schtick isn't nearly as valuable to me as Valve's investment in Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A free game is a free game

If that's all that matters, what's different between downloading the free game Epic affords you versus simply browsing FitGirl and downloading any game for free?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Epic is paying the devs, FitGirl and any other form of piracy isn't.