Epic?

[Gusington]

La la la I can't hear you

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

[Gusington]

I still can't hear you.

Is that a monkey assassin?

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

If you have to ask, it's already too late.

[al_infierno]

Honestly, I don't really get the staunch resistance to the Epic launcher.  I know they've drawn a lot of ire with their exclusivity deals, but it's not exactly evil to throw money at developers/publishers to persuade them to leave a platform with a massive stranglehold on the market.  It's kind of annoying not having everything conveniently available on Steam just a mouse-click away, but isn't that how things always were before everything became digitized and Steam started dominating the market?  I remember the days of having to root around my closet and find an old CD case just to get a key to play a game online.  Having to switch between two or three windows on my PC is hardly a nightmare.

The one issue I have with the Epic launcher is that I'm constantly inundated with friend requests from apparent bots, but I don't use the friends service on Epic so I can ignore that easily.

[Gusington]

@SDR 

[W8taminute]

I can see why people would criticize Epic on too many exclusive titles on their site.  I can also see Epic needing to do this in order to have a chance to compete with their giant competitor. 

The more I think about it the more I think it's not a bad thing to have accounts in multiple gaming service locations. 

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

My chief concern about installing Epic was due to reports of CPU temperature spikes caused by the launcher.  I gave it a shot once a partial fix was announced and monitored my system.  I didn't see any temp difference on my PC so I'm good with it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-bug-in-the-epic-games-store-launcher-raises-cpu-temps-on-some-pcs-partial-fix-is-available/

[Gusington]

I can and have waited months or years for titles to appear elsewhere.

[ArizonaTank]

My chief concern about installing Epic was due to reports of CPU temperature spikes caused by the launcher.  I gave it a shot once a partial fix was announced and monitored my system.  I didn't see any temp difference on my PC so I'm good with it.

https://www.pcgamer.com/a-bug-in-the-epic-games-store-launcher-raises-cpu-temps-on-some-pcs-partial-fix-is-available/

I had not heard that, but that might explain some strange behavior I saw with Epic running in the background.

[jamus34]

I've had some issues with Epic, but I do not know if it is their launcher, the game or something else

Basically Borderlands 3 starting CTD frequently on me. As far as I know you can't opt out of patches like Steam so no idea if it was my PC, the launcher, the game, a patch or my vid card driver.

Put the game down for a while and started playing again but I do have a new vid card.

[steve58]

^If Old World goes on sale on Epic, would you mind posting here? For me, your pal :)

Test yer mettle time Gus.  While technically not on sale, there is an opportunity to grab a $10 off coupon at Epic to use on Old World (or any game costing $14.99 and up).  You will have to get a free Epic account and then sign up for email alerts (something you can turn off later).   I just signed up for the alerts and got the coupon in just a few minutes.  Applied it to Old World and bought it...cost was $29.99.  Installing now, but I won't have any/much time in the near future to play with it since we are getting our house ready for sale. :-\

p.s.  The coupon can be earned from now until November 15...any unused coupons will expire.

[solops]

I got an Epic account just for Old World. No regrets.

[Gusington]

^I have been so very close to doing that.

Dammit Steve I thought you would have forgotten all about my post.

My mettle is solid (pun intended). I can wait since I just finished up some ancients gaming and am moving towards some medieval/renaissance gaming for the next few months, at least. By the time I am done with that, it will hopefully not be too long until Old World is released beyond Epic. And maybe I can catch a combo deal with the original game and the upcoming DLC.

Hopefully.

[TheFjordFox]

Not only did I dislike the layout and found it hard to navigate and find what I was looking for, but it also tried installing Fortnite onto my system unprompted. That really annoyed the piss out of me.

That's pretty spot-on for me. Can relate.