• dangblingus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    On one hand, thanks to the nonstop giveaways, I have way more games on Epic than I do on Steam, so I have a reason to continue using Epic.

    On the other hand, Epic’s launcher runs like shit, constantly refreshes my library page, slow as hell, glitchy as hell, and makes me feel dirty when I use it.

    Steam is just so cozy and is on the whole a much more enjoyable PC gaming experience. I imagine 95% of Epic users are people like me: sign in on Thursdays for the free game and then bounce.

      • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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        1 year ago

        I know about its existence, but I’m not sure how safe is it as a way to prevent Epic (and potentially Tencent) from tracking my personal information.

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      1 year ago

      I talked to their support about the library force refresh and it’s apparently intended. That library refresh is literally the only reason the EGS isn’t open all the time like Steam is. Random data usage is bad, and can fuck off. I do not need random lag spikes.

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      1 year ago

      Am I the only one that finds steam to be the absolute worst software UI/UX in gaming? The whole thing is still just a glorified web browser. The game pages are messy unorganized trash. The game library is terrible.

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      1 year ago

      thanks to the nonstop giveaways, I have way more games on Epic than I do on Steam

      I still have more games on Steam, however, Itch.io has had a couple of insane bundles in the last couple of years, which mean I have way more games and content on Itch than on Steam, which I did not see coming. I still use Steam the most, though, because I’m used to their interface and it works really well on Linux.

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      1 year ago

      Valve has not optimized big library, so me with 4k games and good computer but Steam performs like PoS.