The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.

After the six months are up, the game will revert to the standard Epic Games Store revenue split of 88% for the developer and 12% for Epic Games.

  • @BURN@lemmy.world
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    2061 year ago

    They can try all they want, but I’ll just wait until the game comes to steam. No game is worth using that dumpster fire of a launcher.

    • sebinspace
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      911 year ago

      Elite Dangerous was their free game for the month awhile back. I made extra accounts and snagged free copies for people that wanted to try it, because I adore that game and love having people to fly with.

      You know, oddly enough, no one wants it, even for free, expressly because they don’t want to deal with the dog’s anus EGS launcher.

      • @BURN@lemmy.world
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        331 year ago

        Yep, I used to pick up the free games, then realized I’d never play any of them because I expressly do not want to deal with the EGS launcher.

        It sucks, because it really is better for the devs, but steam is just so much better

        • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          it really is better for the devs

          This is said a lot but… Is it really? And if so why should I, the customer, care?

          I can’t think of any other good or service in my life that I would go out of my way to buy from an alternative store so that the manufacturer makes more money. I don’t choose between Aldi and Whole Foods based on whether the manufacturer of my chicken bullion cubes makes more margin with one or the other. It’s just fuckin weird.

      • @p05@lemmy.world
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        131 year ago

        Same with GTA when it was free. Only got one person to use one of the many and they only used it like twice.

      • @bfg9k@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        Dude I have purchased Elite 4 times now, 1 for me and 3 for my mates

        I wish they would do SOMETHING with the game to make it more accessible, all my friends gave up after realising how much grinding they had to do

        That game is a ruined orgasm. So much build up and anticipation for fucking nothing.

        • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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          61 year ago

          My biggest complaint about E:D is that star citizen’s flight mechanics and ship design ruined the game for me. Star Citizen has a wider variety of ship designs than E:D. Additionally, the ships I’ve tried in SC are incredibly responsive, to the point where even the nimblest E:D ship feels like a whale. However, that’s about all I can say for star citizen. I mean, it’s getting there, slowly but I swear to god the world is going to end before they finish the fucking game.

          Meanwhile, E:D is very much a complete game in a massive galaxy. Sure, it may not have as much detail as CIG is trying to put into star citizen, sure it may not have the complexity of star citizen, but that doesn’t matter if you can’t finish your game. However, E:D’s ships suck.

          Can we take star citizen’s good half and E:D’s good half and make one complete game please?

      • @NightOwl
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        51 year ago

        I claim every epic game through the website, but I actually haven’t bothered installing the epic launcher since I did a fresh install of my OS months back. I’ve got other non steam launchers like GOG installed. So yeah, I’ll take the free game, but I don’t feel like spending money on the epic store even if it were more heavily discounted.

        • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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          61 year ago

          You’ve got the GOG launcher… Which can be linked to the Epic launcher… But don’t want to install the Epic launcher to play the free games they give…

          Fucking hell you guys are pathetic.

          • @NightOwl
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            131 year ago

            I’m already claiming them. You want me to actually play them too? What more do you want from me Tim.

      • Overzeetop
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        41 year ago

        Which is kind of weird since Elite has its own stand alone launcher, right?

        All my stuff on Epic I just install and either run direct on the PC or add to steam as a non-steam game on my deck.

    • @Lethtor@lemmy.zip
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      161 year ago

      I will never get this sentiment. It’s a fucking game launcher, it downloads the games quickly and launches them. I just don’t get this hate boner people have for it.

      I played Red Dead 2 and Control through it and had absolutely zero problems. You all just want a steam monopoly for whatever gods forsaken reason.

      • KroninJ
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        211 year ago

        Their checkout still doesn’t have a cart, it takes forever to load, the UI is terribly clunky, the library sorting is terrible (how do you fuck this up), it’s resource heavy, and I’d be willing to overlook all that oof they had an in game overlay with web browser.

        Aside from the terrible experience, they have profit seeking investors, one of which is Tencent. We all have seen were it goes when profits are priority over consumers.

        Not a hate boner. Just genuine dislike of the platform as it stands right now.

        • @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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          31 year ago

          They do in fact have a cart I fucking used it last week to add two free games and check em out at the same time.

          • @KickyMcAssington@lemmy.ca
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            41 year ago

            When did you last use it to pay for a game? Just curious, I find most people are more tolerant of issues with something they didn’t have to pay for.

            • @GreenMario@lemm.ee
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              11 year ago

              I bought Tetris Effect on it back when that game seemed to take every single exclusive offer before finally landing on steam (PS4, then Epic then Gamepass/Xbox THEN Steam) man that’s annoying. Prior I picked up Rebel Galaxy Outlaw on the cheap cheap thanks to a coupon but later got a Steam copy through a bundle.

              I don’t remember when they added the cart but it’s there. I can see it right now. It works. At least when adding 2 free games at once.

          • KroninJ
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            11 year ago

            Nice. I’ll have to take a look next time I’m on there. I didn’t see anything that showed it was available last time.

            Good on them.

      • @BURN@lemmy.world
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        111 year ago

        Because it doesn’t work

        The launch is a piece of shit that doesn’t do the 2 thing it’s supposedly good at. Downloads are excessively slow and game launching doesn’t work half the time. It’s so slow that it has a noticeable effect on boot times.

        Yes, I’d rather a steam monopoly than have to use that shit launcher ever again. Steam is a useable piece of software that doesn’t suck donkey cock.

          • @BURN@lemmy.world
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            81 year ago

            It doesn’t work on Linux at all

            It never worked in the first place. It’s so slow that disabling brought seconds back to my boot times.

            • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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              11 year ago

              I can’t figure out how to stop EGS from pushing notifications that don’t go away without clicking on them in Windows.

              And occasionally it will just push a quasi-notification through just the app to make it start flashing on the taskbar and forcing itself over other open apps. Nothing even is happening it just desperately wants to be on top.

              An absolute garbage fire of a game launcher, barely worth the free games it gives. (and seeing as I don’t play them I guess fully not worth)

    • @Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      They’re winning me over steam. I pick up their free games each month and my library is getting good enough that I’m spending more time on it.