I love the idea of getting older AAA titles for free, but hate the idea of installing the Epic Games Launcher on my computer. Where do you guys stand on this?
It also makes me sad that Epig Games has fallen so far. I grew up on Unreal Tournament and now I don’t want them anywhere near my computer.
I dunno, I’ve just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?
Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it’s available on PC as sales permit, but we’re talking a game or two a year at most.
I love it. I don’t find it a big deal to have installed their launcher. I run it to redeem or play a game, and kill the process (not just close the window) when I’m done.
I don’t see any point in claiming free games from it.
If by any chance one of the games I might ever want to play becomes a freebie, then I would simply browse my backlog rather than forsake my principles.
I have claimed most of the games and some have been real gems. I’ve bought a few games too because they were the cheapest option.
Personally I don’t have a problem with the Epic launcher as it’s just a launcher which is fine by me. I use GOG Galaxy anyway and I’m not a fan of Steam either so don’t care about that aspect.
I end up claiming the games and never playing them. I wish they’d be more customer friendly, they’re swimming in money (fortnite + unreal royalties) but couldn’t for their lives surpass the very low quality bar of Origin or even UPlay!
I’m still on Windows for now, so I use a PortableApps installation to claim the games instead of a phone. I do the same for my wife and kid too. Neither of them has the Epic installer 🤷🏻♂️😁
Like other commenters I take advantage of them but only if I can do so on my terms: on Linux or the Steam Deck using Heroic or a similar solution. There is absolutely no way I’d use Windows or the Epic launcher for this.
And since these methods are not officially supported and could break in the future I can’t spend money at the Epic store. I only leech on the free stuff while it’s practical to do so.
If EGS pulled a 180 and officially supported Linux, maybe I’d change my position, but for now I’ll play whatever works on Linux through Heroic and leave it at that.
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Free games are good. Have been using Heroic launcher in Linux. Free or not, I’m still waiting for the time to be right.
I’ll claim it online. Then pirate it.
I’ll just avoid using the epic launcher and I appreciate heroic launcher but I still don’t like it.
You can get free games with torrenting, so it never appealed to me.
I don’t want or need more accounts, nor do I want or need more launchers.
I really liked Shapez
It’s almost stopped me buying ANY games, at all.
At some point within a year or few of a release the odds of anything I find interesting showing up for free on epic is damn near 100%.
It’s the ultimate patient gamers bit: wait 2 or 3 years and that game you want will be $0.
(It’s why my epic library is now bigger than my steam library, despite spending $0.)
Wow, that’s impressive. Or maybe I have a problem of buying way too many games.
Or maybe I don’t buy enough?
I dunno, I’ve just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?
Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it’s available on PC as sales permit, but we’re talking a game or two a year at most.
I love it. I don’t find it a big deal to have installed their launcher. I run it to redeem or play a game, and kill the process (not just close the window) when I’m done.
I don’t see any point in claiming free games from it.
If by any chance one of the games I might ever want to play becomes a freebie, then I would simply browse my backlog rather than forsake my principles.
I have claimed most of the games and some have been real gems. I’ve bought a few games too because they were the cheapest option.
Personally I don’t have a problem with the Epic launcher as it’s just a launcher which is fine by me. I use GOG Galaxy anyway and I’m not a fan of Steam either so don’t care about that aspect.
I end up claiming the games and never playing them. I wish they’d be more customer friendly, they’re swimming in money (fortnite + unreal royalties) but couldn’t for their lives surpass the very low quality bar of Origin or even UPlay!
I have never installed Epic Games Launcher and still claim and play their games for free. It’s pretty easy:
I play on my Steam Deck and on my Linux desktop, and EGS isn’t supported on either. Seems to work fine.
Hell yeah! I did not know this was an option. Thanks for the tip!
I’m still on Windows for now, so I use a PortableApps installation to claim the games instead of a phone. I do the same for my wife and kid too. Neither of them has the Epic installer 🤷🏻♂️😁
You can claim directly from Heroic btw, just go to “Stores”
I usually claim Thursday mornings at work so I don’t forget, and it takes like 30s. But it’s pretty cool that it works in Heroic as well.
Also works for prime games. And if you are on Linux especially GOG as well.
I have epic only on my steam deck and refuse to install it on my main pc
Did you actually install EGS, or are you using Heroic?
Heroic :3
Like other commenters I take advantage of them but only if I can do so on my terms: on Linux or the Steam Deck using Heroic or a similar solution. There is absolutely no way I’d use Windows or the Epic launcher for this.
And since these methods are not officially supported and could break in the future I can’t spend money at the Epic store. I only leech on the free stuff while it’s practical to do so.
Exactly.
If EGS pulled a 180 and officially supported Linux, maybe I’d change my position, but for now I’ll play whatever works on Linux through Heroic and leave it at that.
Not worth bothering with for me.
I feel pretty awesome, thanks Epic, I love you fondly…
But I suppose that wasn’t what you wanted to hear…
Jokes aside why wouldn’t someone feel good or cool about it?
The Epic games launcher is trash, you could try with Heroic Games Launcher, it also works on Linux