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Topic	Can someone tell me the deal with the Epic Store and Steam Store?
xp1337 06/14/19 6:40:28 PM #17:	It's mostly the exclusivity that enrages people, in my experience. Particularly when it gets announced for games that were previously slated for Steam, complete with Steam pages and active pre-orders. It doesn't help that Epic has said in the past (forget if it was after Metro or Borderlands 3 maybe even both) it won't do it again (not exclusivity in general, but some of the more close-to-launch-pulled-from-Steam type ones)... then has... done it again. Shenmue III is a special case because it's: highly anticipated and its nature as a kickstarted project promising backers Steam keys and sending backers emails saying it was still for Steam as close as 4 days before the exclusive announcement. Shenmue III got "downgraded" to a timed exclusive, but last I checked the backers PC keys are still being switched from Steam to EGS. ZenOfThunder posted... Apparently the Epic Store roots through your shit and sends data back to Epic? No idea how legit that is My knowledge on this is that a few months back it was discovered that EGS was grabbing Steam data from the user without asking. Epic said it was only sent back to them if you opt-in to import Steam friends and whatnot but it was there and would act without asking permission. Epic admitted some fault in this when it got big IIRC. When I went to look up an article on this to make sure I didn't mess anything up from when I was reading about this as it happened I came across other accusations but they seem to be either standard stuff performed by Steam too and in their privacy policy... or conspiracy theory seeming. The Steam data thing is the only one I know to be legit. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:923322023] in Can someon... [t:77790404]...</cite> <quote>It's mostly the exclusivity that enrages people, in my experience. Particularly when it gets announced for games that were previously slated for Steam, complete with Steam pages and active pre-orders. It doesn't help that Epic has said in the past (forget if it was after Metro or Borderlands 3 maybe even both) it won't do it again (not exclusivity in general, but some of the more close-to-launch-pulled-from-Steam type ones)... then has... done it again. Shenmue III is a special case because it's: highly anticipated and its nature as a kickstarted project promising backers Steam keys and sending backers emails saying it was still for Steam as close as 4 days before the exclusive announcement. Shenmue III got "downgraded" to a timed exclusive, but last I checked the backers PC keys are still being switched from Steam to EGS. <cite>ZenOfThunder posted...</cite> <quote>Apparently the Epic Store roots through your shit and sends data back to Epic? No idea how legit that is</quote> My knowledge on this is that a few months back it was discovered that EGS was grabbing Steam data from the user without asking. Epic said it was only sent back to them if you opt-in to import Steam friends and whatnot but it was there and would act without asking permission. Epic admitted some fault in this when it got big IIRC. When I went to look up an article on this to make sure I didn't mess anything up from when I was reading about this as it happened I came across other accusations but they seem to be either standard stuff performed by Steam too and in their privacy policy... or conspiracy theory seeming. The Steam data thing is the only one I know to be legit. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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