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Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO (frvr.com)

submitted 1 month ago by RetroGoblet79@eviltoast.org to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope their Android store offers a good experience and succeeds since Play Store just sucks. But Valve pretty much made Linux gaming, if you saw what it looked like before they got involved you would understand. And they are the only big video game company that still does some good stuff in addition to the bad stuff.

Epic burned 95% of their good will among gamers, if not all of it. They allowed play 2 earn and other crypto shit just to be contrarians, delisted and ended support for old Unreal games and are pretty much just The Fortnite Studio at this point, which itself is seen as an amalgamation of everything wrong with gaming by some, they struck exclusivity for highly anticipated games so that people have to buy it from them, stories of crunch and Tim defending and supporting every new technology gold rush including Grok producing fucking CSAM.

It's not hard to see why people have so much animosity towards them.

[–] misk@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

I saw what it looked like. We had native ports and Wine (rebranded as Proton by Valve so that it looks like their own product).

EGS is just one store. Devs don’t even bother releasing games outside of Steam and you can’t make the same argument against GOG or Itch.io.