Epic Games Store now open!

[ic1male]

The Epic Games store is now open, featuring awesome high-quality games from other developers. Our goal is to bring you great games, and to give game developers a better deal: they receive 88% of the money you spend, versus only 70% elsewhere. This helps developers succeed and make more of the games you love.

The first games on the store are Hades by Supergiant Games, Ashen by Annapurna/A44, and Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek by tinyBuild, and they’re available now!

Hades is the rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. It is available in early access, with updates to come every month until full release later in 2019.

Ashen is an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a home. You can forge relationships in the game, inviting other players to join your camp - they might just help you succeed.
Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek is the prequel to Hello Neighbor, the stealth horror hit. Find out what happened right before the events of the main game.

The store will also feature one free game every two weeks throughout 2019. Epic is funding these free releases so you always have something new to come and check out. The first free game will be Subnautica, available from Dec 14th to Dec 27th, followed by Super Meat Boy from Dec 28th to Jan 10th.

The Epic Games store will be growing throughout 2019 and beyond, as it opens up more widely to other games.

 

[ic1male]

One of the best PS3/PS4 games coming to PC! Dunno if it's exclusive to Epic or not.

 

[ic1male]

I'm sick of the bloated, laggy mess steam has become so I'll be checking the epic store out for sure. I don't really have an issue with too many stores anymore, but I still outright refuse to touch EA's Origin. Currently have:

Steam - Used almost daily
uPlay - Used almost daily
Battenet - rarely used
GoG - rarely used, only got the Witcher series on it.

Probably can add Bethesda too as Rage 2 might be exclusive to that launcher. And who knows? Square Enix could get in on the act with Tomb Raider/Deus Ex/whatever.

 

[ic1male]

Bethesda have their own store so i doubt it.

I think you misread, I didn't mean Bethesda games were coming on Epic, I meant their own games will be exclusive to the Bethesda Launcher. So it adds another store that PC gamers have to use at some point.

 

[ic1male]

Oh ! I see that Satisfactory (a first/third person full 3d version of Factorio) is also coming on the Epic store, I wonder if that means they will remove it from Steam, as thats a title I've got my eye on when it releases.

It's already gone.

 

[ic1male]

And Bethesda is now making Rage 2 exclusive to its launcher. At least to begin with.

 

[ic1male]

It seems so far like it's just a period of exclusivity. Rebel something-or-other is there for 12 months. Ashen is coming to Windows Store at some point on Game Pass. I guess the others will eventually, too.

 

[ic1male]

Only reason I'll be using it is for the free games

LOL, sounds like me. They gave away Shadow Complex Remastered when it first came out, 2-3 years ago so I signed up way back then and it's never been used since. I can't even change my email address for the log in. That's just nuts.

 

[ic1male]

I think the PSN login is just for ease of use so you don’t have to create a new login/password. It may give you access to friends but it won’t be game sharing.

 

[ic1male]

Whatever happened to the new Steam client they are/were working on?

 

[ic1male]

The next free game is going to be (on 10th January)
What Remains of Edith Finch

 

[ic1male]

Zoinks. Valve will have to make Half Life 3 to stay afloat at this rate.

 

[ic1male]

Edith Finch is available for download now. Free for 2 weeks.

 

[ic1male]

Next free game on 24th January is
Jackbox Party Pack

 

[ic1male]

Next game (Jackbox Party Pack) is available now.

And coming up in two weeks time is Axiom Verge. That's a nice bonus as it's another one I've wanted to play but never purchased.

 

[ic1male]

The next free game, Axiom Verge, is now available!

 

[ic1male]

The next free game, Thimbleweed Park, is now available.

In two week's time, it's Slime Rancher.

 

[ic1male]

I've heard good things about Slime Rancher

I haven't given it a second thought until you said this. Had a look on Steam and the ratings are "overwhelmingly positive" so it'll definitely be worth checking out.

 

[ic1male]

Epic VP of Engineering said "We only import your Steam friends with your explicit permission. The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file. However information from this file is only sent to Epic if you choose to import your Steam friends, and then only hashed ids of your friends are sent and no other information from the file."

I don't have my Steam account connected, only my PlayStation Network one. So I guess it shouldn't be doing anything with my Steam data. Except it is and they're supposedly going to fix that.

Tim Sweeney said ""The current implementation is a remnant left over from our rush to implement social features in the early days of Fortnite. It's actually my fault for pushing the launcher team to support it super quickly and then identifying that we had to change it. Since this issue came to the forefront we're going to fix it."

Tut tut. I for one am never going to buy a purchase from their store, even if Borderlands 3 is exclusive to it.

 

[ic1male]

Whats contained in that vdf file? If its just my friends list then I'm not bothered, its not like I have Julian Assange on my friends list or anything

I think it's all your friends, all your games, the games you played last. It's harmless stuff really but the idea that they are poking around for it without asking your permission is what gets me.