• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          Probably they don’t like epic

          Neither do I but Epic pays money to the developers for the free games, so by clicking on them the developers are being supported and Epic loses money (if you don’t buy the add-ons then).

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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            31 minutes ago

            Epic loses money

            If you think Epic doesn’t think they are coming out ahead of this, ultimately at the expense of game-buying consumers, you haven’t thought things through as much as they have.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgOP
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          10 days ago

          I don’t much care for them either but…it’s free. You should claim it because you don’t like them.

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              9 days ago

              You can get the free games over their website, if you don’t want to install the client. You are right about boosting their numbers though.

          • blackris@discuss.tchncs.de
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            10 days ago

            But can you just download and play it on Linux via Steam/Proton or do you need to install their launcher?

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              9 days ago

              You can use Bottles,Heroic,Lutris but Heroic was Less problematic + the only con its electron but i could just close the launcher while in a game its not a big deal