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Chise @ChiseHatori Fan Epic Games Store isn't profitable? Aw man so sad Anyways >opens epic store >claims free game of the week >adds it into my 200+ games library that I didnt pay anything for >doesn't play any of them >closes epic store :
This creepy wanker is giving out free games! Just pirate your favourite AAA games at your leisure. You don't have to worry about hurting the developers he's already paid them for you! "Go on, lad! This one's on me EPIG EPIC GAMES -Tim "Robotnik" Sweeney, 2021 SONIC COLORS ÜLTIMATE
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About

Epic Games Store is a digital distribution platform operated by video game developer Epic Games. The platform was launched in December 2018, with several notable PC exclusives announced and made available in the store in the following months. In March 2019, jokes in which the platform was compared against its competitor Steam were circulated online.

History

On December 4th, 2018, video game developer Epic Games announced the launch of its digital distribution platform Epic Games Store, available through the Epic Games launcher application.[1] The store offered a 88% revenue cut for game developers, with additional benefits for games based on Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games. The store was officially launched on December 6th, 2018.[2][3]

E Epic Games @EpicGames The Epic Games store is now live! Enjoy great games from amazing studios, find out more here: store.epicgames.com EPIC GAMES STORE 10:15 PM-6 Dec 2018

Hightlights

Starting in December 2018, several notable exclusive titles were announced for the store. On January 9th, 2019, Ubisoft announced that its upcoming video game Tom Clancy's The Division 2 will be available in Epic Games Store, but not through its competitor Steam.[4] On January 28th, 2019, a similar announcement was made for Deep Silver-developed video game Metro Exodus, which would be distributed exclusively through Epic Games Store for one year following its release on February 15th.[5] The announcement sparked an online backlash for Metro Exodus publisher 4A Games.[6]

In the following months, more exclusives were announced for the distribution platform, including Obsidian's upcoming video game The Outer Worlds and Quantic Dream's PlayStation exclusives Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human

Malware and Steam Data Use Allegations

On March 13th, 2019, Redditor notte_m_portent posted a thread titled "Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You!" in which they investigated questionable activites performed by the Epic Games Launcher.[7] In the same thread, Epic Games VP of Engineering Daniel Vogel provided in-length explanation for each allegation, asserting that the launcher only imported friends information from Steam with the user's permission and promising to fix the highlighted issues.[8]

We only import your Steam friends with your explicit permission. The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file. However information from this file is only sent to Epic if you choose to import your Steam friends, and then only hashed ids of your friends are sent and no other information from the file.

On March 15th, Valve spokesporson stated that localconfig.vdf file which Epic Games Launcher uses to access friends data "is not intended to be used by other programs or uploaded to any 3rd party service", adding that Valve was looking into what information the Epic launcher collects from Steam.[9]

"Epic Store Bad"

Starting in March 2019, memes related to exclusive announcements and competition between Epic Game Store and Steam gained popularity in PC gaming communities such as /r/gaming,[10] /r/pcmasterrace[11] and /r/gamingcirclejerk.[12] While some posts ridiculed Epic Games Store for attempts to compete with Steam and its exclusive agreements, other, ironic memes, poked fun at this trend.

RO 0008 EPIC GAMES God! Ah [Whimpering ] EPIC GAMES I got you! I got you, brother! EP GA Oh, no, you don't!
# 58 Yo STEAM EPIC GAMES IS GONNA OPEN THEIR OWN STORE S0 You'RE GONNA HAVE SoME COMPETITION, GoNNA NEED To LOwER PRICES, IMPRovE YouR STORE AND FIx... EXcLuSIVE! SO... HAVE You HEARD ABoUT HALO? XcLUSIVe EPIC EXcLUSIVE! EXCLwsIvE! EXCLUSIVE! GAMES GAME AME SRGRAFo
You'll never understand hehe ... тура y painorry.sor 0 (Installing another launcher for games) (Giving birth)
Studio gets paid for a console exclus- ive, making you buy a console if vou don't have one i sleep Studio gets paid for EGS exclusive making you download a free launcher real s---
EPIC Games Valve MEIRO 2 HALValve EPIC Games THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION 1000 10
The developers deserve to be f----- forPiracy has no this. I'm going to pirate their games to spite them effect on sales RMPCGAMING AKE-CLARK TuMBL

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External References

[1] Unreal Engine – Announcing the Epic Games store

[2] Twitter – @EpicGames' Tweet

[3] Epic Games – Epic Games Store

[4] Epic Games – Ubisoft to Release Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on Epic Games Store

[5] Epic Games – Metro Exodus is coming to the Epic Games store

[6] gamesindustry.biz – 4A Games embroiled in controversy over Metro Exodus' Epic Games Store exclusivity

[7] Reddit – Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You!

[8] Reddit – DanDaDaDanDan's Comment

[9] Bleeping Computer – EPIC Promises to Fix Game Launcher after Privacy Concerns

[10] Reddit – HALO appears – Epic wants to know your location

[11] Reddit – Mood rn

[12] Reddit – epic bad fartnite bad tencent bad koch bad deep silver bad four a bad

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Epic Games Store is a digital distribution platform operated by video game developer Epic Games. The platform was launched in December 2018, with several notable PC exclusives announced and made available in the store in the following months. In March 2019, jokes in which the platform was compared against its competitor Steam were circulated online.

History

On December 4th, 2018, video game developer Epic Games announced the launch of its digital distribution platform Epic Games Store, available through the Epic Games launcher application.[1] The store offered a 88% revenue cut for game developers, with additional benefits for games based on Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games. The store was officially launched on December 6th, 2018.[2][3]


E Epic Games @EpicGames The Epic Games store is now live! Enjoy great games from amazing studios, find out more here: store.epicgames.com EPIC GAMES STORE 10:15 PM-6 Dec 2018

Hightlights

Starting in December 2018, several notable exclusive titles were announced for the store. On January 9th, 2019, Ubisoft announced that its upcoming video game Tom Clancy's The Division 2 will be available in Epic Games Store, but not through its competitor Steam.[4] On January 28th, 2019, a similar announcement was made for Deep Silver-developed video game Metro Exodus, which would be distributed exclusively through Epic Games Store for one year following its release on February 15th.[5] The announcement sparked an online backlash for Metro Exodus publisher 4A Games.[6]

In the following months, more exclusives were announced for the distribution platform, including Obsidian's upcoming video game The Outer Worlds and Quantic Dream's PlayStation exclusives Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human

Malware and Steam Data Use Allegations

On March 13th, 2019, Redditor notte_m_portent posted a thread titled "Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You!" in which they investigated questionable activites performed by the Epic Games Launcher.[7] In the same thread, Epic Games VP of Engineering Daniel Vogel provided in-length explanation for each allegation, asserting that the launcher only imported friends information from Steam with the user's permission and promising to fix the highlighted issues.[8]

We only import your Steam friends with your explicit permission. The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file. However information from this file is only sent to Epic if you choose to import your Steam friends, and then only hashed ids of your friends are sent and no other information from the file.

On March 15th, Valve spokesporson stated that localconfig.vdf file which Epic Games Launcher uses to access friends data "is not intended to be used by other programs or uploaded to any 3rd party service", adding that Valve was looking into what information the Epic launcher collects from Steam.[9]

"Epic Store Bad"

Starting in March 2019, memes related to exclusive announcements and competition between Epic Game Store and Steam gained popularity in PC gaming communities such as /r/gaming,[10] /r/pcmasterrace[11] and /r/gamingcirclejerk.[12] While some posts ridiculed Epic Games Store for attempts to compete with Steam and its exclusive agreements, other, ironic memes, poked fun at this trend.


RO 0008 EPIC GAMES God! Ah [Whimpering ] EPIC GAMES I got you! I got you, brother! EP GA Oh, no, you don't! # 58 Yo STEAM EPIC GAMES IS GONNA OPEN THEIR OWN STORE S0 You'RE GONNA HAVE SoME COMPETITION, GoNNA NEED To LOwER PRICES, IMPRovE YouR STORE AND FIx... EXcLuSIVE! SO... HAVE You HEARD ABoUT HALO? XcLUSIVe EPIC EXcLUSIVE! EXCLwsIvE! EXCLUSIVE! GAMES GAME AME SRGRAFo You'll never understand hehe ... тура y painorry.sor 0 (Installing another launcher for games) (Giving birth)
Studio gets paid for a console exclus- ive, making you buy a console if vou don't have one i sleep Studio gets paid for EGS exclusive making you download a free launcher real s--- EPIC Games Valve MEIRO 2 HALValve EPIC Games THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION 1000 10 The developers deserve to be f----- forPiracy has no this. I'm going to pirate their games to spite them effect on sales RMPCGAMING AKE-CLARK TuMBL

Search Interest

External References

[1] Unreal Engine – Announcing the Epic Games store

[2] Twitter – @EpicGames' Tweet

[3] Epic Games – Epic Games Store

[4] Epic Games – Ubisoft to Release Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on Epic Games Store

[5] Epic Games – Metro Exodus is coming to the Epic Games store

[6] gamesindustry.biz – 4A Games embroiled in controversy over Metro Exodus' Epic Games Store exclusivity

[7] Reddit – Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You!

[8] Reddit – DanDaDaDanDan's Comment

[9] Bleeping Computer – EPIC Promises to Fix Game Launcher after Privacy Concerns

[10] Reddit – HALO appears – Epic wants to know your location

[11] Reddit – Mood rn

[12] Reddit – epic bad fartnite bad tencent bad koch bad deep silver bad four a bad

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>majority shares owned by tencent
>claims not to be spying on you, smud being a software dev corroborates this to the best of his ability but i still don't trust them, see point 1.
>fucking insane user agreement that dictates they are allowed to reproduce and exploit anything you post on the store and they hold you responsibly legally for damages resulting from their exploitation of your
>reviews are "optional"
>another online store
>bring 3rd party exclusives into gaming
>isn't GoG
this thing is getting too much hype
>BUT AERIE, THIS IS GOOD FOR THE INDUSTRY, STEAM HAS COMPEDITION
you mean like GoG (support them), Icht, Uplay, Origin fucking there was another online distributor that went down or even that google thing?
They don't deserve praise for that, if they'd win they'd tighten up control and be far worse for consumers than steam.

I am not advocating piracy
but if you were to:

please consider buying it on steam, or gog or somewhere else after the exclusivity agreement is over

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