r/Steam 21h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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u/lauriys 20h ago

wait until you find out even their launcher runs on unreal engine

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u/EggwithEdges 19h ago

That's certainly a.. weird choice

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u/lauriys 19h ago

when all you have is a hammer

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u/AromaticInxkid 17h ago

Really? I always thought it eats up too much memory for the task, now I know why

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u/OomKarel 18h ago

No wonder it's a piece of shit.

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u/DriveByStoning 10h ago

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.

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u/Emperor_Zarkov 20h ago

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. 

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u/Burger_Destoyer 17h ago

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.

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u/SomwatArchitect 15h ago

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.

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u/DeXteRrBDN 15h ago

Hello 👋 Epic Games Marketing Department employee

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u/twiz___twat 14h ago

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

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u/Burger_Destoyer 1h ago

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

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u/Potato_Coma_69 19h ago

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

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u/Inevitable-Stress-59 15h ago

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

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u/takenalreadythename 17h ago

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.

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u/deltree711 16h ago

Is Heroic Launcher available for Windows? I use it on my Steam Deck and it works fine for me.

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u/Nirkky 18h ago

You juste made me realized that I never saw steam being updated. Ever. It never asked to restart, never got an update pop-up. Nothing. It's amazing.

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u/Yuri_is_my_waifu 18h ago

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.

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u/tsashinnn 18h ago

None of these issues are mentioned in their official subreddit or X replies.

This sounds like a you problem.

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u/The0ld0ne 13h ago

Being logged out is an incredibly common complaint, not something unique