So it's has even more free to play game business mechanics....without actually being free to play.

Cool cool.

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Still no Hitman 2 on the whitelist?

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Can't wait for these quotes to either be taken out of context, or be buried. Epic Bad, even when they say good things that make actual logical sense.

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Not gotten it to work =/

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Gaming on Linux is exactly that.

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Quoting: razing32I seriously do hope Epic just burns to the ground.
This exclusives nonsense is harmful to consumers and the last thing we need is to turn PCs into consoles with exclusive stores.

As controversial as this sounds, I don't mind timed exclusives, as the game will appear on another platform/ service eventually. I dislike Epic making former steam games exclusive, but considering there's realistically, no other way they can compete with Valve. Their leverage starts at a better price ratio split thing for devs, and ends with buying up exclusives.

Do I dislike them buying titles after they release (like Rocket league). Of course I do, as that undermines potential purchasers who wanted to get the steam version, and have to get it elsewhere. This is only a net win for epic. The consumer doesn't win when it comes to what Epic and Psyonix are doing.

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Well that went well.

Also, you don't have to have GOTY to get Hitman 2016's levels, Owning the game with all locations bought on steam is enough.

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Quoting: einherjarI can't imagine that Epic lets this happen.
They will not help Valve in any way. And if valve plans something like new Steammachines, it must work reliable.
If people buy a Valve product (game streaming or something like Steammachines) Epic can always kill it. They just need to let the multiplayer fail. Let people be kicked by Easy Anticheat - thats it!

So I don't think that will work reliable. Would be very nice, but I do not believe. May be with Battle Eye. But never with an Epic Company.

Problem with this mentality is that if EAC's parent company, Epic, is in direct competition with Valve, then why does EAC work on steam games on Windows and Mac, and Native Linux? The short answer is because the backlash that would cause would be so immense it'd discredit the entire company. Long-winded way of me saying; Be skeptical, just stop thinking that Epic's master plan is to kill steam (when that's clearly not the case).

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Quoting: GuestEAC already has (optional) wine support in, and the devs of Paladin were asked by someone to activate it so that people could play it again. They obliged and now paladin (a game that was unplayable due to EAC last year) is now playable.

It was more likely a universal test of wine64 EAC of some kind, considering Apex Legends also worked until the day after it came out, where both Paladins and Apex stopped working, which is not a coincidence.

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