• Frozyre
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    573 months ago

    Let’s see…

    The launcher itself ran poorly compared to Steam’s. I’ve had instances of it freezing performance down just downloading 1 game through Epic’s launcher.

    You’ve locked down games behind multi-year exclusives, pissing off many people along the way that we’re now just seeing their Steam releases.

    You’ve spent years giving free games away, promising not to do anymore, going back to doing it again.

    The launcher and storefront are incredibly barebones compared to Steam’s. In fact, any launcher not Steam, has incredibly minimal to go with other than just running games through them.

    • Altima NEO
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      53 months ago

      EA at least made an attempt, but still not as fully featured.

    • @pop@lemmy.ml
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      33 months ago

      WTF. I would fucking love barebones launcher. I was holding off using epic launcher because it was so laggy and slow when it first came out. I was using legendary before, but stopped using Epic altogether. Might just give it a try again.

      I’m starting to feel steam is getting bloated and plain annoying. I just want a launcher to launch a game and pair with my friends after a long day at work. I don’t want a crappy browser following me around in the background. I already have a browser if I need it. We use a different app for voice so could do away with all the other bs as well.

      • @greenskye@lemm.ee
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        73 months ago

        If all you want is to launch a game, why keep the ‘launcher’ at all? Games used to just… start. No separate program needed.

    • tiredofsametab
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      33 months ago

      And, around launch, didn’t have payment processors in multiple countries meaning people were just fucked by exclusives