Epic Games: Not even once.
Sadly the only way to play Rocket League
Yeah :(
But all the free games
Are they really free when the price is your soul!?
Real question: how? What does epic games do? Is it privacy stuff? I’m out of the loop. I just get free games and gave a disposable email.
Shitty business model. Exclusivity contracts. Haven’t heard about it much lately though so maybe they’re not pulling that crap as much now that they’re more established.
Shitty business model
Fortnite goes brrrrr
They’ll keep doing whatever they can to get market share as long as it remains a money printer…
They’re still giving away free games, though the name recognition of them has fallen.
Their launcher is literal spyware.
Wait what
Pretty much just epic paying devs money in order to give away their game, almost directly buying them market share for their launcher. They will probably stop doing it some day. Or maybe they won’t.
Probably waiting to stop once their store hits a critical mass and repeat business
Guessing that never happened and never will
Steam has great prices, great sales, great features for the users
GOG has a decent selection, is good with older games, and no DRM. That’s still an advantage
Epic has…an ability to make you have to log in or update constantly? I don’t see the advantage over anything. I personally refuse to give them money for taking away store choice with exclusives
You mean… Giving devs money so they’re guaranteed an income instead of relying solely on the success or failure of their game which can be fairly random in some cases? Or the part where they keep a share of the profit much smaller than Steam?
Even if you accept the premise of your argument, what percentage of games do you think is getting that deal? It’s still sink or swim for the vast, vast majority of indie games in that case. I’m all for competition, I just don’t like that specific business practice.
Not sure what part of my comment you interpreted as dissing this business practice, or what the second half of your comment is even referring to as I never mentioned profit splitting, but you keep on waffling about epic. I am sure that will fix their launcher sucking dick.
The joke’s on them. I sold my soul years ago.
Oh no, they know my junk email, the agony!
Everyone gets it wrong with the RAM 🤦.
How so?
I do note it is a weird ratio of CPU cores to memory in this meme 🧐
maybe they’re running a weird dual socket opteron setup
That was my point. 32 cores with 32GB of RAM should be a crime.
The real crime is not having 32TB drive to go with it.
I don’t think they make 32TB drives… do they 🤔?
a quick search revealed https://www.servethehome.com/32tb-micron-9400-is-a-beast-pcie-gen4-nvme-ssd/
Wow, who knew…
it’s just a stupid meme bro
They also didn’t mention the clock speed so probably put no consideration into that either.
Side note: Open up task manager and make sure the RAM clock speed matches the one advertised on the box. If not you may have to override in the BIOS. May cause crashing and if so just lower it a setting at a time until it’s stable, it won’t damage your computer.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I work in IT 😂.
I imagined as much, was meant to be a PSA since a surprising number of people who pay extra for high-speed RAM have no idea to even check if it’s running full speed.
Yeah, to be honest, that is true. My colleagues don’t check that either and cosider themselves experts 😒… that’s OK, I just avoid conversations with them cuz they get lost when we do make converstaion… and then the conversation dies down anyway.
Don’t just manually adjust the speed, use XMP/DOCP/whatever your board/CPU manufacturer calls it (unless you know what you’re doing or are fine with crashes)
wdym?
There’s way too little RAM for that amount of cores.
*ammmount
Yeah, auto correct doesn’t work with Jerboa 🤷.
It’s working for me right now … but I’ve also noticed that sometimes, it doesn’t.
Nope, not working at all. Works in almost every other app, but not Jerboa… or any of the other apps for Lemmy. I use Gboard BTW. Apparently, SwiftKey works, but I tried it and it doesn’t have any options regarding auto-correct or suggestions, so it’s not a viable option for me.
Fuck Epic Games launcher. All my homies use Heroic Games Launcher.
Fun fact: When the epic games launcher crashes it shows a unreal engine error window, hinting at the possibility that EGL might be an application made in Unreal Engine.
Garry’s mod runs at 2 fps
MacBook Pro M2 Max feels lol, it’s got a lot of power in theory but almost no software puts it to use.
I make use of my 16gb m1 by just never closing anything, ever. I have photoshop, 3 browsers, discord, and Shogun 2 total war open in the background. I feel like I’m getting my money’s worth this way.
Calling out the bulkiest NVME drive I’ve ever seen.
Maybe it’s 2x1TB in a casing
Maybe it’s just one, and the casing works as cooler
The size of Warzone 2 makes it physically inflate.
nvme doesn’t have to be m.2 right? I swear I’ve seen 2.5" nvme drives.
Correct
I mean, no… but it still needs PCIe, and that usually isn’t getting cabled very far in a consumer machine
Oh right, I was of course thinking of server ssds.
Maybe it’s a u.2 or u.3 nvme Enterprise drive?
Certainly could be
Looks like an icydock sled
Legendary, my beloved.
What is ‘Epic Games Launcher’
Isn’t it the thing that gives out free games that you never play, every now and then?
Death Stranding? Control? All the Batman and Tomb Raider games? Most games I play on PC were Epic freebies.
The first two work fine. Don’t know about the others.
You are going to feel stupid when I tell you, but it’s the “Launcher” for “Epic Games”.
I don’t game, but I installed it once to play around with Unreal Engine once. The meme is quite accurate.
Back in my day we just double-clicked on executables or shortcuts to executables. I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing. Seen it pop up in non-game applications too.
I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing.
It doesn’t matter when you have like 5 games, but when you start to get into the hundreds… A launcher that can filter, group, hide, etc games is nice.
Ok grandpa, time to go play cribbage now.
Easy fix! Simply do not open the epic games launcher ever again (and uninstall it while you’re at it)
Based
What’s the OP? Why has credit been removed?
Huh, didn’t know it was available for windows.
Also I resent it being called “native” when it’s made with electron
Welcome to 2023 where native means a webpage in an embedded browser.
If an Electron feels faster than the EGS app then boy…
It’s a cool project, but it’s certainly not native (and despite what the other comment says, even in 2023, Electron apps are not native 😅)
I swear everyone on lemmy is a late 30s programmer. Kind of like reddit was I guess (but older…)
Been installing all of my GOG and Epic titles on Nobara with this! Super easy. Just select the Proton version you have installed and you’re good to go!
I know this is a meme but is it really that slow? Tried it like a years ago and I remember it being pretty slow for me.
Is heroic games launcher a faster, lightweight, feature-rich alternative?
Heroic is definitely faster. Though it’s buggy at times
I’ve never noticed it being slow. Steam takes longer to launch for me and constantly wants to run in the background and download updates.
I don’t like either one tbh. Launchers are silly to me.
I just use Playnite as the frontend for everything and Epic loads a lot faster when the actual client doesn’t need to fully kick up. Same for Steam, Ubisoft, EA etc.
Playnite looks very good. So it’s just a launcher and games manager that doesn’t also try to be a store, chat client, advertising platform, and social media site?
Amazing!
Sadly it only supports Windows.
Wouldn’t Heroic be a better option on Linux? It supports both Epic and GOG.
I find it to be a nicer library.
Yeah, Playnite certainly is super moddable comparatively.
Miss me with that DRM shit platform
Again with that bullshit?
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Epic_Games_Store
As if Steam doesn’t sell games with DRM… Oh wait, they make their own DRM!
I think they really refer to the feeling it gives off. Like that uplay client you are forced to use even though you bought the Ubisoft game on steam. Epic just feels like a ball and chain.
So does Steam then, dinner standards much?
Maybe it has changed to better. I don’t have Epic Games, but a few years ago I went to a friend’s home and tested Epic Games and it forced you to stay online in order to be able to play. There was no offline mode like in Steam.
I also have a subjective view. I really love the steam communities (uninvolved with Steam), workshop, Proton, Gamer communities. I feel that the approach of selling free candies that Epic Games has used it’s untrustworthy. And Epic Games communities look. All friends that I know that have Epic Games it’s because of the free candies, but nothing else. They don’t open Epic Games for anything else, they don’t talk on communities, etc.
Both of them are companies, but it feels like steam cares more about its community and users.
I personally have a launcher so things are neat and tidy instead of having a bunch of shortcuts on my desktop, that’s all, I never use the community features and wish I didn’t have to rely on a launcher for them when I need them. I much prefer finding answers to my questions on Gamefaqs forums than on Steam’s (because I find their forum works like crap).
