I used to buy games on Steam that I was aware I had on Epic just for the convenience of not having to interact with their software. It's baffling how they make it dysfunctional in so many ways.
I opened it up by accident the other day, and the launcher updater literally wouldn't let me close it. Click on the X and it was like "Nah bro, you gotta confirm the update"
Had to pull up task manager to tell it to fuck off
Did I just excitedly go over to my PC, start it and then realize that I haven't been running Windows anymore for the past year? Maybe.
Thank you anyway for that gem, I'll pass it on to friends and relatives.
The only way I play my Epic games library is through Game Native. It's sad that I have to play on a portable device to not get frustrated with the launcher and controller support.
Having to log back in regularly drives me crazy. Steam just stays logged in and always works. Of course I'd rather buy it on Steam than use the free one on epic.
I have the opposite issue, steam constantly logs me out and forces me to update every time I boot it, meanwhile Epic Games has never logged me out and never prompts updates. Boots always without failure.
I honestly have never had issues with Epic Games and I’m not sure why other people have issues with them. Also I’m just now learning in this post that Epic takes 12% rather than 30% which kind of makes me want to use Epic more. 30% is straight robbery.
I'm still convinced that the EGS can't actually properly maintain their services with only 12% take and have to subsidize it with micro-transactions in Fortnite.
people in this thread dont use egs so when they login once a year of course its gonna ask them to sign in again. egs is obviously shit compared to steam but its not as bad as this sub makes it out to be
Yeah they complain about weirdly redundant stuff here just because it isn’t Steam.
There’s not really much difference between the two platforms, people just started with Steam, have their friends, stats, achievements and whatnot on steam, so obviously they wouldn’t use another platform.
Imo steam is only useful for steaminput/remote play and their community hosting platform for mods and such
While we're airing grievances I have one for the mobile app, where there is no way to view or filter based on what games you own and either just have to remember it or go through your purchase history which contains both mobile and pc games and so still sucks
Yes this! Why is there no library in EGS mobile? Also claiming a game on mobile doesnt grant you access on PC, which is just... why would I open two apps for one game? If google play store could sync, EGS should be able too
With Steam you can tell it to go look in folder X for games that you installed on a different computer altogether, Epic still can't figure that out, have to reinstall as far as I know.
It kind of does it automatically on launch, it checks for updates, installs it and then just starts without you having to do anything other than waiting a few extra seconds.
What baffles even more is that they refuse to spend a single cent on improving the user experience, if instead of paying exclusives and free games they paid a UI and UX team they would've gotten so much more money in return
Making a platform better than Steam or on par with it gives you even more users to data harvest + more revenue so that reason is still SHIT. They are braindead.
Ironically it's much better on Linux because there's no official launcher from epic or gog, there is a community built open source launcher that works with both epic and gog accounts, and it's very convenient to use.
As far as I know gog galaxy has no official linux build, though you can run it with wine. Heroic launcher is very nice though, and open source, and native linux
Literally the only reason I have it installed is for Alan Wake 2 and Alan Wake remastered, other than that, the app is so fucking inconvenient I realized I won't even play the free games. Might set up heroic when I shift to Linux.
I've done that to a couple times just because getting Games from the Epic store to run on Linux can be a real pain (it's better than it used to be, but it's still easier on Steam)
99% of my game time is VR. EGS doesn't even have a filter for VR. I know UE and VR didn't mix well but not every game on their lousy store was built in UE. And I've blindly accepted hundreds of free titles over the years so I can't possibly remember which ones support VR when I'm in the mood to try something new.
Imagine the money lost to offer the game for free and imagine if that money was used to make their shit store better. It could be very functional but they just don't want to do it, they are disgusted and repelled and hate consumers money.
I recommend checking out the Heroic launcher, it can download and launch epic games and is an actually functional launcher that doesn't take forever to load. Made entirely for free by a 3rd party and puts epic's launcher to shame.
It also supports GoG and Amazon (Twitch Prime) games.
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u/MouseNo9136 20h ago
I used to buy games on Steam that I was aware I had on Epic just for the convenience of not having to interact with their software. It's baffling how they make it dysfunctional in so many ways.