• ono
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    I don’t like Epic’s exclusivity deals.

    I don’t like Epic’s invasive “telemetry” libraries.

    I don’t like Epic’s client helping itself to whatever data it wants on my computer.

    I don’t like Epic’s ethics.

    I don’t like Epic’s leadership.

    I don’t like Epic’s investors.

    Come to think of it, I don’t like anything about Epic. I won’t be giving them my money or granting them access to my computer.

    Valve, GOG, and Itch are far more deserving of my support.

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      For what it’s worth there’s an open source launcher that is 100x better than Epic’s official one called Heroic. You can use that if you want to avoid their slow, ad-spamming store.

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        I’m aware of it. It doesn’t resolve the biggest problems with Epic. In fact, it arguably makes them worse, by encouraging more people to accept Epic’s policies and run their code. (Note that Epic Store games run Epic code regardless of how they’re launched; it’s built in to the executables.)

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          Note that Epic Store games run Epic code regardless of how they’re launched; it’s built in to the executables.

          I want to read more about that. Do you have a source?

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            My source is me, by examining binaries and their behavior. (That is, the binaries themselves are the source.)

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      I played KSP on Epic because it was free, but I hate Epic so much that I just bought it on Steam instead since I really liked the game.

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        I’m half tempted to do the same with Cities Skylines… besides the mod support is better on steam, so I might just do that