This is very common among big tech companies and we should start treating it as what it is, a scam.

I don’t know why. I own about 80 games from Epic. I didn’t pay a dime tough.

Good reason to shut it down then. No one needs their crap anyway.

That’s what you get for bringing platform game exclusivity to the PC, trash!

Wait…they sell games, too?

I just bought the only game I’ll likely ever buy on EGS. It was Alan Wake 2. Being published by Epic, it will unlikely ever be anywhere else until EGS shuts down.

My justifications are as follows: I love the developer and want to support them.

That’s it. The experience was… fine, but far from streamlined. The Epic achievement system is terrible. Imagine walking around in a horror game, immersed in the atmosphere, then a loud cheery mobile app chime blaps through your headphones and a giant banner splatters across the top of your screen announcing your achievement totally jarring you out of the atmosphere.

Then, imagine you find out you can turn on a ‘do not disturb’ mode by pressing shift+f3, then imagine you need to turn it on every time you launch the game. That’s the Epic Games Store experience in a nutshell.

Isn’t it just first steps of enshittification? Hardly anything shocking.