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 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 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
I claim everything since free is free. But I don’t have the launcher installed, since I have a lot of other games to play so haven’t gotten around to it.
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.
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.
The Epic games launcher is trash, you could try with Heroic Games Launcher, it also works on Linux
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?
What’s wrong with Epic Games launcher? I understand that they require some sort of delivery mechanism, even if you don’t use Epic you have to use Heroic or something. Is there something else I should hate?
I feel good. Who doesn’t like free games?
I have never installed Epic Games Launcher and still claim and play their games for free. It’s pretty easy:
- claim games on epicgames.com (I use my phone)
- install Heroic and login to your epic games account
- play your claimed games
I play on my Steam Deck and on my Linux desktop, and EGS isn’t supported on either. Seems to work fine.
Also works for prime games. And if you are on Linux especially GOG as well.
Hell yeah! I did not know this was an option. Thanks for the tip!
I’ll claim the games if they look interesting but usually someone else has to tell me what’s on there because I don’t look. I won’t buy a game from epic though, so this marketing tactic is lost on me.
Not lost, you boost their active user numbers
Oh well
i’ve stopped bothering. I saw dredge was free there a little while ago, and that’s a game I want to play. Didn’t even claim it.
That’s one of the few I missed recently, which is too bad.
