Games

You can use this FOSS tool to automatically claim those games.

https://github.com/vogler/free-games-claimer

Some even work pretty well on Linux using the Heroic Launcher.

Initially I, too, claimed those, but ultimately I never ended up playing them and often I’d just end up buying them from steam instead. It’s funny how I’m willing to pay for something I can have for free, if it’s convenient and easy. So I didn’t claim them for very long, stopped a long time ago, and still just ignore it if a game I thirst for is available for free.

But that’s also a pretty dark prospect: Because I have my entire extensive library on steam, I’m kind of stuck with them. And while they are not abusing that presently, I’m fairly confident they will someday. And I, along with most everyone playing on pc, will be shit out of luck then.

It’s hard to diversify at this point, when I’m too far gone, and knowing changing or adding services will increase the complexity of using it all and keeping mental track of all the games and where they are.

Ugh.

That's literally the only reason I have Epic on my PC.

Free games every week.

I stopped claiming epic freebies when I realized I ended up buying the game on steam anyway.

And never plays any of them.

The whole UX is just so bad

And thats exactly why Epic is untrustworthy. Its like a shady guy on the corner saying "Hey i will give you 500 bucks if you just do this easy little thing for me. Will be done right away no worries".

Of course i know him that's me.

I'm pretty sure there are tons of people like that. It's the same for me.

Meh.. Piracy is still better 🏴‍☠️

My friend too have over 100 games. He never even play them but thankfully to him I don't have to make Epic Account.

So he didn't claim even half of them?

I too have basically all of them. A few have caught my interest on PC. More than a few were a big pain to get working on Steam Deck even with Heroic Launcher.

I have 0. Also interesting choice of words with “owns”.

I bought Alan Wake 2, and glad I did. Accidentally decided to buy Red Dead redemption 2 on there because of a discount code making it much cheaper than steam a couple of years ago.

Huge mistake. I added it as a non-steam game so now to launch Red Dead redemption 2. I need to launch steam which then launches epic which then launches Rockstar Games launcher which then launches the game.

Only 200? Try harder, noob.

(I'm at 410, and my Epic library is now three times the size of my Steam one, lol.)

This is the point though. They have beefed up my Epic Games library to the point where if I got banned from Steam, I would have a viable fallback.

That cannot be understated. It has a network effect and makes adopting it as a new platform versus a legacy one with two decades behind it, far easier to adjust to.

I love that at least someone is really trying other than MS with their poorly supported windows games store attempts.

I have 10 free games from GOG too and without DRM!

I have 367 games in my Epic library. A few of them are f2p (e.g. Fortnite) but the majority are giveaways. The only game I've purchased on EGS is Alan Wake 2 due to exclusivity

Hmm. Let's see here...

Steam: 147
GOG: 174
Epic: 286

I've paid for about 2/3 of the Steam games, probably a quarter of the GOG ones, and maybe two or three of the Epic ones.