Well the launcher can hardly get any worse.
Today I found out there’s no way to change the default install location. And I learned this just today because I so rarely use it. Why is this launcher such a mess. It’s seriously like they’re not even trying.
It only exists so they don’t have to give steam their cut. They don’t have much incentive to do anything else as long as they know they have exclusives locked down like Fortnite that bring in the cash
There are open source implementations of their launcher. Specifically there’s “legendary”, which is the thing that can download and launch games (this is a command line tool). Fortunately there’s also “Heroic”, which will use legendary in the background and give you a normal/usable user interface, desktop shortcuts and so on. Also doesn’t work like spyware for epic on your computer, as their own store/launcher does.
That’s honestly good to know, thanks!
Although it is kind of telling that in order to use their launcher without getting a stroke your best bet is an alternative launcher. Still, I’m going to have a look at Heroic. Would be a shame to never touch all those free games just because Epic sucks so much.
You can’t? I’ve only ever used it once, in the past few years, and I installed Fortnite* to my external hard drive. Was on a Mac though, maybe there it’s different. But yeah it’s still godawful.
* my friends unfortunately managed to convince me to try to play it (didn’t work in the end since they stopped building it for Mac and my main gaming machine is Linux)
You can change the directory manually for every single install. But a default install path for your games - nope.
Boo, epic sucks.
I wonder what percentage stake that will give them. Tencent owns 40% of Epic.
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They will probably pull their games from steam next.
And what, put them on Disney+?
No I’m more thinking they would remove them and keep them exclusive on epic as they are part owners now. Sure the games are shit but that is not the point
Oh Disney has games on steam?
Yup. There’s a few old re-releases there, not sure if they’re patched up for modern Windows though. Actually, they had a publisher sale on Steam quite recently.
And not just that, when they acquired LucasFilm they not only got a backlog of old Star Wars and Indiana Jones games already on Steam, but also Sam & Max Hit the Road. AFAIK Sam & Max is an independent franchise but LucasArts and thus Disney own the rights to Hit the Road.
I doubt they’d pull their games off of Steam. Disney are interested in Fortnite as a content delivery platform, not in EGS
Sam & Max is Double Fine if I’m not mistaken
They will probably pull their games from steam next.
Oh no.
Anyways…
I was learning unreal engine, but I guess it’s time to switch to Godot.
I… yeah, what? Disney is what does it? You were cool with Tencent, Sony, Lego, the massive fine for mishandling underage information? Disney. That’s your line.
Alright.
I’m surprised Disney would be the reason. Epic has enough reasons all on their own.
Godot is honestly just so much nicer to use. I switched to it back in the day because of that after using Unreal and Unity. I didn’t even know what open source was at that point, I just liked it more.
I guess it’s good they already sold Bandcamp then? Still pissed they ever bought it in the first place.
Whatevs been boycotting both for years.
Tencent, now Disney… Who’s next, Satan himself? Hitler resurrected from the dead?
Has Elon had a hand in it yet?
Hah. The framing from normie news is so weird. It’s “bizarrely Disney is investing on Fortnite”, instead of “Disney buys a stake on the people making Unreal, which at this point is like half of their and everybody else’s VFX pipeline”.
I wonder if the gaming news guys will have a better picture or the “Disney Fornite whaaaa?!” angle is what people will take away from this across the board.
I mean… last I remember Fortnite was more than 80% of the revenue of Epic Games… so I feel like saying that Disney investing on Fortnite ain’t that incorrect.
