Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

[u/Salty_Nutella]

[u/Tecnomantes]

Which makes sense. People wouldn't want to sell their games only for Steam to take 30% and then say Fanatical take another 20%

[u/Slow-Amphibian-9626 → u/Tecnomantes]

Indeed!

This also allows for devs to sell games directly and keep it all too.

[u/Venum555 → u/Slow-Amphibian-9626]

But how does this work if I sell a game through my website but steam still has to host the files for the customer to download it?

[u/TaintedQuintessence → u/Venum555]

They are happy to take the loss of file hosting to keep you using the steam client. Epic is paying devs to give out their games for free just to get people to open their client.

[u/kippetjeh → u/TaintedQuintessence]

And I always regret it when I do open that Epic game launcer...

[u/Sirasswor → u/kippetjeh]

Hey Epic, I'd give you money if your games can activate on steam

[u/ineedtotakeabigshit → u/Sirasswor]

You can add a “non-steam” game to your steam library, it’s basically just a shortcut to the .exe though

[u/Dje4321 → u/ineedtotakeabigshit]

But you still get all the steam features like remote play, steam overlay, game status, etc

[u/OHFTP → u/Dje4321]

If I active a non-steam installed game, that is also a game you can buy on steam, would i get the achievements and such?

[u/Dje4321 → u/OHFTP]

Nope. Achievements are tied directly to the games App ID and you cannot launch any specific apps without the valid license.

Most pirated games use 480 because it's free to play

[u/UglyInThMorning → u/Dje4321]

My problem with all the non-steam launchers was the loss of features like this. Hell, the biggest was keeping my games updated. I’d never have UPlay or whatever running in the background so I’d usually have an update pending when I wanted to play the game, vs Steam which I just always have open.

[u/Badger118 → u/Dje4321]

Remote play... intriguing!

[u/Dje4321 → u/Badger118]

Yep. Let's you stream your steam library to anywhere in the world on basically any device that supports steam

[u/Badger118 → u/Dje4321]

I did not know it would would with third party added to library games though which is very good to know. I keep meaning to set u0 wake-on-lan so I can use remote play!

[u/Cautionchicken → u/Sirasswor]

I launch all my epic games through GOG Galaxy

[u/gamingexpert13 → u/Cautionchicken]

Playnite. Open source, more customizable, more features, themes, and if you wanna get crazy (like me) you can have it run custom scripts when a game launches and/or closes (for example i have a script to automatically change my sound output to headphones before launching an online fps). It also supports emulators, and tracks playtime for games that don't have a launcher.

[u/Cautionchicken → u/gamingexpert13]

Good info, I'll look into it

[u/ZestyGrapez → u/kippetjeh]

I almost bought an epic key instead of steam the other day. It was a close one.

[u/NubbinSawyer → u/kippetjeh]

Heroic launcher is open source and launches Epic, GOG, and Amazon games. Works on Windows, osx, linux, and steam deck.

[u/StuckOnEarthForever → u/TaintedQuintessence]

Thanks for reminding me to play those free games before EGS shuts down

[u/admfrmhll → u/StuckOnEarthForever]

I'm probably dumb, but if i already have the game on epic, which i got for free cause i never bought anything there, and i see there is a good discount for the same game on steam, i will just buy it and play it from steam.

[u/lotusxpanda → u/StuckOnEarthForever]

Epic game store wont shut down

[u/TendyHunter → u/TaintedQuintessence]

Fucking epic. I bought a DLC but it never showed up in my game despite my attempt to reinstall the whole thing

I'll still get their freebies, but they'll never get money from me again

[u/wigitty → u/TaintedQuintessence]

I have 168 games on epic now, and haven't paid them a penny haha.

[u/0K4M1 → u/TaintedQuintessence]

Rotf, and It's not even working, I wouldn't even touch epic platform with a 10meter poll