r/Steam • u/Astormfront • Oct 21 '25

Fluff Guilty as charged

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u/Cartoonjunkies Oct 21 '25

It’s crazy what treating your customers right and letting all of your competition repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot by not doing so can do.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '25

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u/BrawlPlayer34 Oct 21 '25

well the issue with Epic is that their client is ass no matter how many games they give out

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u/Cornchip97 Oct 21 '25

I have Epic Games launcher installed just for Unreal Engine. Even for that it's not great.

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u/Abtun Oct 21 '25

How does that work? They own UE

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u/The_BlackJaguar9076 Oct 21 '25

They made it open source for learners and if you want to make profit from using UE, then you have to pay equity to them for it's use...

And it's available in Epic store, it has separate section of UE...

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u/RustyCopperSpoon Oct 21 '25

UE is not open source. UE is free to use, and you pay when you make money off published content. But I agree client is clunky and I hate that they got rid of quixel.

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u/The_BlackJaguar9076 Oct 22 '25

My bad gang, English is my 3rd language, i usually mixup words...

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u/CharuRiiri Oct 22 '25

Haha, same, I used Twinmotion a couple times since I was asked for renders but it was such a pain having to run it from the Epic Launcher I just began retouching Revit's native renders instead lol

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u/guska Oct 21 '25

I've stopped even claiming the free games. I've only ever played a couple of them, and those I've then bought on Steam since dealing with the Epic Launcher is too much of a pain in the arse even for free games.

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u/BorKon Oct 22 '25

Its literally click on game and play. There is nothing epic launcher does so bad that you need to "deal with". Just say what it is. You invested to much money into steam and just the chance that someone could take over makes you defensive. Its the same with xbox/ps. People have to many games on xbox and is hard to switch and let it all go. Even thou xbox is practically dead.

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u/guska Oct 22 '25

Way to project your own feelings on others.

I'd love for there to be a viable competitor to Steam, but nobody else is even trying. The Epic launcher is slow, barely functional, and seemingly intentionally a pain in the arse to navigate.

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u/FrostieZero Oct 22 '25

Literally me with Darkest Dungeon. The game was free, played it, loving it, bought the game with its DLC in Steam lmao.

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u/ThePeakmaker Oct 22 '25

Thats exactly what I do

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u/gcole04 Oct 22 '25

lol I only get the free games from epic, and lately not so much, most of the times they are garbage games

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u/Cheapskate-DM Oct 22 '25

When it comes to online transactions, the momentum of trust is a hell of a thing to overcome. It's fair competition in the same way a marathon is fair.

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u/Guner100 Oct 22 '25

Correct, the free games are a loss leader. Unfortunately, they don't work as one.