dsmart
2914
Steam didn’t kill it. Brad killed it by selling it to GameStop because he said it was taking away resources better spent on developing games.
So a bunch of gamers are review bombing Borderlands 2 on Steam after being upset by the Borderlands 3 news.
Steam’s review filter is working as intended.
How much ‘using the client’ do you actually do though? If I jump into a game of factorio, I use steam to click a ‘play’ button. Thats it. I assume EGS also has a ‘play’ button’? maybe its a different color but… who cares?
mixuk
2917
Yeah, it’s mostly made up bullshit since people want to be angry.
Oh, you know, browsing the workshop for a set of mods that play well together, opting in to a beta version, looking for DLC, reading reviews and guides, reading the roadmap for a game, categorizing games, looking at how to mod, activating cheaper keys, looking at sales, launching the client natively…
Certainly nothing that has been repeated over and over since December, so it clearly doesn’t matter to anyone.
Nesrie
2919
I launch Steam everyday because of the features, the updates, the store, the news, the sales… they earned the right to be constantly “on”. No other digital storefront gets that, so yes, it matters.
The controller setup options make Steam a must for me. Workshop definitely needed. Big picture also pretty critical.
Man, it’s almost like people have different needs and desired experiences when gaming.
EGS crawls your hard drive without your permission. Somehow this keeps getting lost in the discussion about features and whether Steam is good or whatever. I don’t care about any of that. I’ve got my problems with Steam, but not using EGS is just a basic, no-brainer data security and privacy decision.
draxen
2924
EGS does nothing nefarious. I’m surprised this is still floating around. It just caches some data from Steam in case the user wanted to import their friends list. It doesn’t invade your privacy.
EDIT: I don’t think it even does this anymore after the outcry.
If you actually buy Epic’s line on this after they were caught red handed, I really can’t help you. It’s a piece of software that seeks out other data on your computer and makes its own copies of that data for its own purposes without your permission. That’s more than enough to keep me far, far away from it. Epic’s protestations and reassurances don’t carry a lot of weight, given that they only spoke about this after they were caught doing it.
draxen
2926
It’s fake news. They weren’t caught doing anything nefarious. EGS never did anything abnormal.
I don’t understand how anyone can make that claim with a straight face.
Similar, somewhat easier to follow results were posted today on Resetera, and our own hardware master Jarred Walton confirmed that the launcher had poked around in his Steam files.
I mean, you can believe Epic’s protestations that they aren’t doing anything with the data without your permission ( I don’t know why you would, but you can) but you can’t claim they didn’t scrape it in the first place.
draxen
2928
No data was transmitted without user consent. It just cached some files. It’s a storm in a teacup. Not even a teacup as I’ve stated before. If you attach monitors to all the apps on your HD you’ll probably find lots of them do similar things. It just cached the data for later use. No data was transmitted without consent.
Except if it was any individual person they’d be in jail for hacking, which is bullshit, but still, lol at not being nefarious.
You can add non-steam games to steam and take advantage of both these features for them. It’s trivial to do.
Except they wouldn’t be because nothing happened. Just a bunch of tinfoil hat wearers getting themselves worked up in a frenzy.
Well, I’m pretty sure they didn’t put it in their GDPR disclosure, so they don’t have a free pass on this.
LMN8R
2933
If you think that Epic is lying, you should request your data from them per gdpr guidelines so you can see what they actually have about you.
And if you don’t think Epic is being honest about what they claim to have on you, you should file a formal complaint with the EU under the GDPR.
