Elite Dangerous (incl. Horizons) will be free to keep via Epic store from 19th November (offer available for a week)

VR Jay Le Chardon

VR Jay Le Chardon
Rubbernuke said:
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Dont tell @ZETey

Deception and Horizons as a gift to everyone?

Oh yes, I consider the developers to be cheats and scammers! I bought the game and bought the add-on, I supported the game and the developers! And here is a Gift that I bought at the price of a standard game! And I bought WITHOUT discounts! So, all players are given horizons, I hear pig squeals...
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Alien

Alien
Franc Kaos said:
I would like a second CMDR, especially for free, but I'm not installing Epic on my PC... Not for all the tea in China! <Redacted> those guys!
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Looking at the specs for it on the Epic Store, it looks like it will work like Steam does, launch it via Epic launcher and log in via the ED launcher
I am sure someone will let us know if it's possible to circumvent Epic completely (because I would like to).
 
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SCiARA

SCiARA
so what's the catch and how does this work?
there's no direct links between Epic & Frontier afaik
why the hate on Epic?
 

VR Morgan Grimes

VR Morgan Grimes
Isn't the main reason people hate on Epic due to the tencent connection? Seems a little pointless when you consider FD has a connection to them as well. Unless things have changed and I'm wrong?
 

Alien

Alien
SCiARA said:
why the hate on Epic?
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When they first launched, they were paying developers to tie them into exclusivity deals.
Which in itself is not a bad thing, but Epic didn't help their reputation when they were agreeing deals with publishers (not necessarily the devs themselves) when the game was already scheduled for release on Steam and then after Epic gave them a bunch of money, was not going to launch on Steam, at least not straight away.

Add into that, Epic's hatred of Steam and poor customer service and poor launcher and store features ... then add that it was revealed that the Epic launcher was effectively spyware even scraping your Steam account details ....


Gamers have long memories.
 

znôrt

znôrt
LeoBartlet69 said:
Different strokes I guess but I quite like the 50+ free games I've been given and the discount vouchers.
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everyone seems to want their own launcher and marketplace now, and unreal engine alone is worth having epic's crap installed, the free games are pretty irrelevant.

at least epic's launcher works. for comparison, i uninstalled ubisoft's along with a few games i actually bought and was actually playing. what a piece of utter crap.
 

SCiARA

SCiARA
Alien said:
Add into that, Epic's hatred of Steam and poor customer service and poor launcher and store features ... then add that it was revealed that the Epic launcher was effectively spyware even scraping your Steam account details ....
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oof that right there then
 

znôrt

znôrt
LeoBartlet69 said:
Personally I have no issue with Steam having some competition in the market and when all those other companies try and fail which many will there will be consolidation in the market 10 years down the line.
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indeed, competition is good, launcher proliferation is simply a nuissance we had to get used to. ubisoft's thingy just completely messed up an update the second time and got ... uhm, naturally selected out from my system, but i have a sound and diverse ecosystem with several of them more or less thriving. i don't think any of those poses even the slightest possibility of a threat to steam, though.

the big question is what will really happen when steam closes.
 
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