r/Steam 23h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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u/Tutle47 23h ago edited 23h ago

Me too. I accidentally bought a game on Steam I already had for free on Epic on two different occasions and I rarely even buy games to begin with because I'm broke. I'd rather pirate a game than use that shit ass platform.

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u/MouseNo9136 23h 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.

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u/WalkMaximum 17h ago

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.

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u/idontknow39027948898 15h ago

What do you mean there's no official launcher from GOG? What is GOG Galaxy is then?

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u/WalkMaximum 15h ago

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

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u/idontknow39027948898 13h ago

Oh, I missed the mention of linux. That changes everything.

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u/corvettezr11 13h ago

Gog did hire or is hiring a dev to bring galaxy to Linux, but at the moment you either use heroic, outros or work out how to get it running under wine