I hate the epic games store for a number of reasons, one of which is the fact that the primary controlling shares are all commie Chinese owned. I mean, they install spyware on your machine to send your personal info to the Chinese government, which is the most unsettling part about it. Let's face it, do you really need any more reason than that?
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Regardless of politics, Epic as a company is the exact opposite of their namesake for a variety of reasons. Their CEO loves making twitter drama, you also have the absolute retardation that is the Apple vs Epic lawsuit which actually manages to make Apple look like the good guy for the first time in 30 years. On top of that, the app is generally terribly made as it doesn't display any common info on games the consumer generally want to make an informed purchase, as well as it can be a resource hog on your machine. I don't even bother with the free games on there, cause I don't want to even touch that crap. Then there is also the damn exclusivity deals. Even if commies are not your concern, what should be a concern is the terrible business practices of the company and is ability to completely hamstring their own customers.
Look, I generally don't have too much issue with exclusivity deals to a certain extent, as long as it's restricted to a couple months or so. However, epic is doing a disservice to both their customers and themselves by squeezing year-long (or longer) exclusive deals for the games they offer. It hurts the consumer by either forcing them to a platform they hate, or not getting the game. It also hurts the game devs in the long term as the profits from the game would have likely been more than the exclusivity money, and it hurts epic themselves by using the exclusivity as a crutch to delay or never improve their product.
In fact, they've pissed off so many people, that there's an aptly named subreddit for this very topic...
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