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    That’s what you get for making apps with fucking Electron, aka “a Chrome browser that only opens a single website”

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          I had a chuckle at this because I know Amazon has a game division but for the life of me I can’t think of a single game they have.

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            Not going to trade Valve for Amazon. Valve contributes so much to the Linux ecosystem

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            new world I think? The mmo that was supposed to kill [insert mmo] but then was kinda bad

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              Speaking of killing. Didn’t it end up killing a bunch of graphics cards?

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                Yes, but if a game can kill a GPU the GPU is at fault. The game just has an inefficient loading screen

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                Apparently it was debunked but it sounds very funny to me so I’ll take it as fact and purposefully spread misinformation

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              They also made another MMO, free to play, can’t for the life of me remember what it’s called.

              Also can we just talk about how generic of a name New World is? Like, I wouldn’t be surprised to find half a dozen other MMOs from the 2000s with that name.

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          Prime members get free stuff, including games, every week.

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      Huh, didn’t know it was available for windows.

      Also I resent it being called “native” when it’s made with electron

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        It’s a cool project, but it’s certainly not native (and despite what the other comment says, even in 2023, Electron apps are not native 😅)

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          I swear everyone on lemmy is a late 30s programmer. Kind of like reddit was I guess (but older…)

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      Been installing all of my GOG and Epic titles on Nobara with this! Super easy. Just select the Proton version you have installed and you’re good to go!

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          Real question: how? What does epic games do? Is it privacy stuff? I’m out of the loop. I just get free games and gave a disposable email.

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            Pretty much just epic paying devs money in order to give away their game, almost directly buying them market share for their launcher. They will probably stop doing it some day. Or maybe they won’t.

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              Probably waiting to stop once their store hits a critical mass and repeat business

              Guessing that never happened and never will

              Steam has great prices, great sales, great features for the users

              GOG has a decent selection, is good with older games, and no DRM. That’s still an advantage

              Epic has…an ability to make you have to log in or update constantly? I don’t see the advantage over anything. I personally refuse to give them money for taking away store choice with exclusives

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              You mean… Giving devs money so they’re guaranteed an income instead of relying solely on the success or failure of their game which can be fairly random in some cases? Or the part where they keep a share of the profit much smaller than Steam?

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                Not sure what part of my comment you interpreted as dissing this business practice, or what the second half of your comment is even referring to as I never mentioned profit splitting, but you keep on waffling about epic. I am sure that will fix their launcher sucking dick.

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                Even if you accept the premise of your argument, what percentage of games do you think is getting that deal? It’s still sink or swim for the vast, vast majority of indie games in that case. I’m all for competition, I just don’t like that specific business practice.

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            Shitty business model. Exclusivity contracts. Haven’t heard about it much lately though so maybe they’re not pulling that crap as much now that they’re more established.

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              Shitty business model

              Fortnite goes brrrrr

              They’ll keep doing whatever they can to get market share as long as it remains a money printer…

              They’re still giving away free games, though the name recognition of them has fallen.

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          Oh no, they know my junk email, the agony!

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    That’s what happens when you make a basic GUI in a freaking game engine.

    Yeah I know you want to demo your game engine, but I don’t need you to demo thermal throttling on my processor.

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        I think they really refer to the feeling it gives off. Like that uplay client you are forced to use even though you bought the Ubisoft game on steam. Epic just feels like a ball and chain.

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          So does Steam then, dinner standards much?

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        Maybe it has changed to better. I don’t have Epic Games, but a few years ago I went to a friend’s home and tested Epic Games and it forced you to stay online in order to be able to play. There was no offline mode like in Steam.

        I also have a subjective view. I really love the steam communities (uninvolved with Steam), workshop, Proton, Gamer communities. I feel that the approach of selling free candies that Epic Games has used it’s untrustworthy. And Epic Games communities look. All friends that I know that have Epic Games it’s because of the free candies, but nothing else. They don’t open Epic Games for anything else, they don’t talk on communities, etc.

        Both of them are companies, but it feels like steam cares more about its community and users.

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          I personally have a launcher so things are neat and tidy instead of having a bunch of shortcuts on my desktop, that’s all, I never use the community features and wish I didn’t have to rely on a launcher for them when I need them. I much prefer finding answers to my questions on Gamefaqs forums than on Steam’s (because I find their forum works like crap).

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      I make use of my 16gb m1 by just never closing anything, ever. I have photoshop, 3 browsers, discord, and Shogun 2 total war open in the background. I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth this way.

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    I know this is a meme but is it really that slow? Tried it like a years ago and I remember it being pretty slow for me.

    Is heroic games launcher a faster, lightweight, feature-rich alternative?

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      I’ve never noticed it being slow. Steam takes longer to launch for me and constantly wants to run in the background and download updates.

      I don’t like either one tbh. Launchers are silly to me.

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    Easy fix! Simply do not open the epic games launcher ever again (and uninstall it while you’re at it)

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    Same thing I’ve seen past 60 days with Lemmy. The major sites throwing massive hardware. “Wow, Lemmy now deletes a single post in 7 seconds”.

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      You are going to feel stupid when I tell you, but it’s the “Launcher” for “Epic Games”.

      I don’t game, but I installed it once to play around with Unreal Engine once. The meme is quite accurate.

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        Back in my day we just double-clicked on executables or shortcuts to executables. I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing. Seen it pop up in non-game applications too.

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          I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing.

          It doesn’t matter when you have like 5 games, but when you start to get into the hundreds… A launcher that can filter, group, hide, etc games is nice.

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        Death Stranding? Control? All the Batman and Tomb Raider games? Most games I play on PC were Epic freebies.