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It's a tweet from user PC_Focus_ that states:

The next Epic Store FREE games has been leaked:

13th game: Ghostrunner

14th game: Escape Academy

15th game: 20 minutes till dawn

16th game: A plague tale innocence

17th game: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I remember hearing things like the epic game store launcher rifling through your steam games and contact lists, etc. I just don't want to install anything like that and running a VM just for that seems silly.

Edit: article summarizing the claim and counterclaims.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-steam-data-reddit/

Sounds like a little bit of epic not being clear in what the software does and a little of the Internet running with a misunderstanding.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

With something like the heroic launcher you don't even need to install the Epic games launcher. Just redeem the game through the website and play them through heroic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's good to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nothing against you, but that sounds entirely made up, given how hard it is to link different services via credentials.

Even Heroic Launcher and Playnite need you to log in before they can get that info.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here's an article that summarized the claims and counterclaims.

https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-steam-data-reddit/

It sounds like a little of EGS not being as upfront as they should have been and a little bit of running with a misunderstanding by the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you for the source!

ETA: And given how that all transpired, I can't blame people for being skeptical of capitalists' intentions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Luckily EGS doesn't even work on linux :-) Heroic is vastly better anyway.