Why the Epic Games Store receive much dislike compared to Steam?

  • GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Sinophobia. There are valid complaints about the platform, to be clear (and I personally don’t like or use it!), but the reason is recieves so much dislike is Sinophobia. We even got a dweeb saying “Chinese spyware” in this very thread.

    • warbond@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The hate comes from gated software exclusives and a dogshit service platform. Does China have something to do with Epic? Whatever it is, they’re not making Epic any better.

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        2 months ago

        I think it’s that a Chinese company owns significant stake in them. I agree that they certainly aren’t improving the platform

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      2 months ago

      Nah they give plenty of reasons to be disliked only the crazies go to “Chinese spyware” conspiracy bullshit.

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        2 months ago

        I already said there are valid complaints (and again, I dislike it and don’t use it), I simply believe that the hate being so emphatic is because of sinophobia, though a lot of people wouldn’t say it openly (though the “crazies” do, as you say, and there are a lot of “crazies” on Steam and Reddit").

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          2 months ago

          There are more chinese companies that gamers could go with the “chinese spyware” bullshit like mihoyo or Riot games(with that bullshit anticheat), some people accuse of “chinese spyware” of course(the reptilian brain of gamers can’t go without some racism) but the majority play their games. But Epic? I bet that if they did anything positive the “chinese spyware” against them would almost disappeared from the internet.