• MrGerrit@feddit.nlEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    So many people complain about epic and it’s launcher. Yeah, it’s not great but it works just fine and with all the free games you can claim, it’s just crazy not to have a account for it.

    Every week 1 to 2 games to claim and in December for like 2 weeks straight you get extra games to claim.

    Who cares it’s a repeat or a less good game, it’s free. Try it out and maybe you’ll find your next favorite game!

    • Ganbat@lemmyonline.comEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      And if you’re not interested in having their launcher on your system, there’s an open source alternative called Heroic.

    • Twink [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Their store is abhorrent to navigate last I tried it. And no Linux default client. A no from me. They don’t want me so they won’t have me.

      • MrGerrit@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I totally agree. After all this time the store is still lacking very heavily.

        I’m going to give the heroic client a try, works great on my steam deck.

        I would just make a account and claim the free games through the website, their always on the frontpage to claim.

        But to each their own ofcourse.

    • calzone_gigante@lemmy.eco.br
      8·
      1 year ago

      You can use heroic, it is pretty good and supports epic, gog and amazon games, also setups proton/wine for you if you are not on win

            • Hyperi0n@lemmy.filmEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Looks like you’re a moron, if you stand by the harrassment, death threats, racism and sexism.

              • Ganbat@lemmyonline.comEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                I never said I stood by that shit, just that I stood against what the dev did. Conversely, it’ll be much harder for you to claim you’re not standing by the dev’s actions, since everything he did came directly from him.

                How about the way he told people who had already paid him, who funded the development of the entire fucking game for years that he “owes them nothing,” despite the fact that he would be literally nowhere without them?

                What about how he said that his own supporters and customers no longer being able to access the game that they funded and paid for is “not his problem?”

                How about my favorite quote from the dev: “gamers deserve the gas chamber.”

                So, good to know you support a cruel, scamming, antisemitic scumbag.🖕

                Edit: The quote was fabricated, as it turns out. The rest was not.

                • pleasantly_moist@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Nobody lost access to the game. They just had to click a different icon to launch it. That’s it. That was the whole “controversy”.

                  Calling someone a moron and Nazi for not joining a temper tantrum over something so utterly inconsequential is psychopath behavior.

          • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 year ago

            I remember reading that post and yeah it read like someone talking down to a child. Do they deserve the hate? No but they did their best to attract it.

  • cicadagen@ani.social
    18·
    1 year ago

    I am fellow enjoyer of Subnautica, GTA V, Watch dogs, Control, Train Simulator, Elder Scroll Online

  • Alex@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 year ago

    This is me every week. I have most of the free games in Steam so I’d rather play them there. And the ones I don’t, I can’t be bothered opening another launcher to play them.

    At this point I don’t know why I grab them.

  • kemsat@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    Control was sick though, (edit) I even bought the DLC for it. And they’ve had a bunch of free games that I had bought and played before they put them up for free.

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    There have been a few instances where I was excited for the free games that came out.

    One game they have given out a few times is called “Enter the Gungeon”

    This is one of the best roguelite games I’ve ever played. I have hundreds of hours in this game.

    Please play it for a while if you have not.

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
        2·
        1 year ago

        Not sure if I got subnautica. There was a crpg series they gave away. I forget the name, but i was about the buy it on steam and recognized the artwork. I checked on Epic and sure enough I had the triology.

    • MrGerrit@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Frickin’ amen to that! I long got it on my switch, first digital than physical. Claimed it for free on ps+ and epic.

      Between all of them I have 1000+ hours in the game and it’s still fun to play.

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Im ready to give mods a try. Im on Linux, so I’m not sure how difficult it will be. But I’m pretty confident I can get it working. In fact, I might have tried in the past.

          • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m not sure why I didn’t think about that. It’s hard enough to get to the mouse just to quickly try to learn the buttons and then die.

  • centof@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    This is me most weeks. Thanks for the reminder to claim them this week. :D

  • LCP@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    They’ve given out some fantastic games. I had a blast playing Fez, A Short Hike, Alan Wake and more.

  • Arigion@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have a catch all email, so I create an account every week for no good reason. Anyone else?

      • Arigion@feddit.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        Because I can give the credentials to someone who want’s to play the game and I don’t give access to all of my games.

        I even do that with games I buy. You hacked my diablo3 account? Bad luck. But you don’t have access to all my other games. I can even resell the whole game account when I’m done playing.

        Don’t get why my inital post was downvoted. I’m not saying that you should do that. Was just asking. But ok.

        • renlok@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          So you have a different account for each game? This seems like a lot of effort for little return

          • Arigion@feddit.de
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yes. I really don’t think it’s an effort really. I mean I just press register and enter some_unique_name@mydomain.com. This takes a minute. It’s not that I have to create a new emailaccount or something. And I can even remember them, because the names follow a pattern. As I said it all goes in a single catch-all inbox where I can easily filter by adress. And if I get spam on such an adress they either got hacked or sold my data. Origin for example leaked my email adress for Dragon Age. I also give out unique emailadresses everywhere I need to give one. I got spam on an email I gave exclusively to an ebook distributor. When this happens I just block this adress. I do this because it’s no effort at all. If we meet I could say to you: my email is yourname@mydomain.com and you get out your phone, send me an email and I recieve it. No work at all on my side.