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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

malware? bro you can redeem the games on their website and use an alternate launcher to install them.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I refuse to play games on epic simply because I hate Epic and I won't go into detail. Rather pay Steam for the game any day.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's fine and perfectly valid, Tim Sweeney is a dick, I just get perturbed if people call a fairly innocuous piece of software malware. Like if nothing else at least the devs are making a chunk of cash for these freebie giveaways. I even saw something the other day where a dev said they saw Steam sales double because of a free giveaway on Epic.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 45 minutes ago

That's the same story you're commenting on lol.