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Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck. Tim Sweeney says Linux is ‘a terrifically hard audience to serve’ (2022) (www.theverge.com)
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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So you don't actually play the games? You just redeem them?

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not the other guy but I download them through heroic, install a crack, repack, store on my NAS. That is, if the game is one I'd like to keep for the future.

So yeah some of us are absolutely taking those free games AS free games without downloading their software. A couple of mine have been "loaned" to friends and family, even.

[–] robigan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Same here, download everything through Heroic

[–] Slithers@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Correct. Fuck Epic. They're awful.

Full transparency though, I've played precisely one game on epic games store, Alan Wake 2 because I like Remedy as a developer and want to support them. Alan Wake 2 will never come out on any other platform and I'm not buying a console to play one game.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Okay but redeeming the games doesn't actually do anything. Epic doesn't care. You're not messing with them by just having an account if you don't use it

[–] Slithers@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Epic is subsidizing the sale of the games. It costs them money and muddies their metrics.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, not the metrics!

I'm sure they're fully aware that some percentage of people will redeem the games with no intent of actually playing them.

The whole point is to generate word of mouth for their store. You're out here doing their job for them, talking about how many free games you've gotten from them.

[–] Slithers@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And you're out here defending them. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol No, fuck Epic. I'm saying don't brag about shit that doesn't matter. Like "Hooray, I'm playing right into their marketing scheme. Surely they must be furious!"

[–] Slithers@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

That's certainly an opinion. Mine is that participating in leeching their freebies and not actually engaging in the platform in a meaningful way costs them money with zero benefit. They're giving away games to get people into their ecosystem. If players aren't participating in the ecosystem, then it's not working and just costing money. This is techbro 101.

You're entitled to your opinion. But you're not changing my mind on this.