r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 11h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/doglywolf 11h ago

this is exactly the short sightedness of Epic as a whole . Anyone with half a brain would realize they would be torn a new one with this exact comment all over.

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u/Badvevil 10h ago

You overestimate how much of the human population has half a brain

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u/gonxot 8h ago

Marketing be damn, it shouldn't work but it does, because like you said most people have only half brain (functional at least)

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u/SoysauceKitty 4h ago

Too bad they consume the same amount of resources as a full brain human. Maybe even double the amount..

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u/Moosashi5858 11h ago

I just play it if I have it free on there and try to remember not to buy it later on if steam has a sale

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u/TheBacklogGamer 9h ago

I don't even give them that. Fuck Epic.

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u/Moosashi5858 8h ago

Like not play the free games? I only have been buying games on steam sales if I don’t own them on epic for free

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u/TheBacklogGamer 8h ago

That's what I said. Fuck Epic. I will not give them the satisfaction of falling for their ploys, even if it means just collecting their free games. Fuck em.

I also understand that technically taking their free games and giving nothing in return ever, hurts them more, but I don't care. I am not becoming a part of their ecosystem even as a free-only player.

Fuck. Epic.

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u/Chrussell 3h ago

What an incredibly strange mindset.

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u/TheBacklogGamer 3h ago

Nah. Fuck Epic. Nothing strange about not taking their bait. 

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u/seriouslees 7h ago

Every account that gets created with Epic is another statistic to sell to investors. The only way to kill the company who is fighting to bring Exclusivisity to PC gaming is to not sign up en masse

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u/LionAround2012 6h ago

I am with them. I never installed Epic Games, and I never will. NEVER.

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u/Dagen4345 9h ago

As a man who was struggling for income in his youth I used to do this every Thursday, but this was also when Epic gave out really great deals for AAA titles I wanted. If I was in the same situation now I would rather go do some hard labor and buy a game off steam

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u/Moosashi5858 8h ago

So far I beat death stranding and gta5 for free. I have a lot of others I need to play

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u/DazzlingRutabega 7h ago

There's an option on Steam where you can block a game from showing up. I use it for that this exact purpose.

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u/Moosashi5858 6h ago

Like from the shop?

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u/jeremiah15165 2h ago

I use them to test games lol and if I like the game I get it the next steam sale

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u/-Pelvis- 2h ago

I redeem free Epic games and then never play them because I'm not installing their client. We are not the same.

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u/bkgn 8h ago

Epic is just Tim Sweeney telling some underpaid junior engineers to go do something.

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u/Master_Dogs 4h ago

A lot of companies are doing this. My startup is wasting so many tokens / $$$ rewriting a front end with some vibe coding nonsense. It currently is the same situation as this epic launcher nonsense, has half the features or less of the "legacy" one. It's like a carbon copy of a competitor too, which makes me wonder wtf our legal exposure is. And more importantly, why the fuck is management wasting resources on a rewrite? Any junior engineer knows rewrites take more resources than a basic refactor. PLUS the AI will have something to work with AND can be a useful TOOL to improve the existing experience.

I blame management, they're so out of touch. One VP is behind the vibe coding nonsense here, probably responsible for wasting half our AI spend. Though talking to him (and being extremely cautious around how I voice my concerns) apparently our sales team uses more tokens than him... Which blows my mind. We fucking suck at selling this shit so wtf are they doing. Probably wasting tokens on an out of office reply (real story from some other companies AI spending).

AI is cool but gah vibe coding is ruining software development. Stupid people just got a thousand monkeys to pump out shitty apps.