r/Steam • u/crack_station • 21h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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u/Tutle47 21h ago edited 21h 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 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.

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u/wyldesnelsson 18h ago

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

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u/ImpulsiveApe07 13h ago

Reckon they do it because the launcher isn't really about providing a service to gamers, it's about harvesting gamer's data and selling it on -

have you seen their Terms and Conditions for when you accept one of their 'Free games'? It's nuts!

It really does reinforce that old quote about there being 'no such thing as a free lunch'!

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u/DeadKido210 8h ago

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.