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The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices

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The Epic Games Store Officially Launches on Mobile Devices - IGN

Honestly I know people here are against Epic, but Google Play is such garbage that I welcome the epic store on Android.

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I guess it makes sense, seeing as they've perfected the desktop experience.
- Right in the nuts
- chef's kiss
Epic about to introduce absolutely pieces of shit crappy third party launchers even on mobile.
- Jesus, I was downloading and installing packages earlier for unreal 5.4 and it basically bricks my pc until the install is finished. Infuriating.
- But they didn't. Let's look at the facts:
  There are alternative stores on Android since forever.
  From 1, Opening a secondary store on Android was always an option.
  30% they claim is abusive is the industry standard, i.e. no one is taking advantage of their monopoly to enforce that, because even in markets without a monopoly that's the amount charged.
  Epic lost their lawsuit against Apple, which was the only company he was suing that actually enforced a monopoly in their platform.
  Secondary stores are allowed on Apple in the EU as a result of DMA which has nothing to do with Epic.
  From 5, Opening a secondary store on Apple is now an option regardless of what Epic did.
  So you have one company that sued two others to be able to launch their store there, one of the companies wasn't preventing them from doing so, and they lost their lawsuit against the other one. Completely unrelated to that, the EU forced that second company to allow third-party stores. Conclusion, Epic's lawsuit has nothing to do with this announcement.
- Nothing prevented Epic from opening their own Appstore on Android. Heck, Amazon runs their own you can load on your Android phone if you want.
  
  Yeah. I've had Amazon's for a very long time. There was never anything preventing epic from making their own store. Epic was trying to make Google play store host the download for the epic game store.
  
  Yep it's so true that they did it many years ago. This journo must be on drugs.
- The only good thing came out of Fortnite is the money to fund those lawsuits.
I have well over 300 games on Epic Games Store. I have played zero. I don't know why I keep getting the free games every week, but Steam is where I keep buying. Eventually, I'll play something on there.
- I'm the same way but use heroic games launcher even on windows if that is what you run. Its lite on CPU and you have access to epic gog and epic. if you like the games you played then by them on steam then.
  
  Heroic works great on my steamdeck, too. How I've played several games from gog or free epic games on it.
  I rigged up origin on the SD before there was an easier implementation to do it, though. That was like a 94 step nightmare, but Assasins Creed Black Flag runs great.
- I'm counting on Linux support becoming better. Although I guess Heroic Games Launcher is almost there already.
- I got Control for free, then I bought the DLC for it in there.
- I only ever played hades which I bought for €5 when it was still €15 or more on steam. But even them I just added it as a 3rd party game to steam lol.
- Don't buy on steam, you can use other vendors and just use steam. Don't feed the beast
  
  Judging by the downvotes, people really don't like being told not to use our favourite DRM, huh... anyway, the reason people buy on Steam is for all the features and functions. Other than personal controller configs, most will not work with non-Steam games. Family Sharing, Remote Play, Workshop, premade controller configs, achievements, playtime, and any social features. Of course if you don't use any of these, then supporting a smaller store is great!
Fuck epic
Store exclusives are coming to mobile :/
- Cue the space man gun meme.
  It always was store exclusives.
As a gamer for over 40 years, I don't play games on my phone. I find it boring, monotonous, and repetitive, along with the ads, gatcha mechanics, and whatever trash they're pushing. If I want to play a game, I'll use my desktop or Switch.
- I play shattered dungeon.
  Game boy emulators.
  TIC-80 and PICO8 games.
  Native android Final Fantasy VI.
  There are some good options for phone gaming.
Yeah, what we really needed in this world was Epic Games doing anything ever.
Has this not been a thing for a while? What app do I have on my phone?
- "Also why does Google search keep taking me to random crypto sites?"
  
  No seriously I had to install an Epic Games app to get Fortnite on Android a while back.
  Have I seriously had a virus on my phone this whole time? Am I that dense?
I don't remember the last time i played a game on my phone tbh
TLDR: you can get it from the url http://epic.download
Looks like it only has Fortnite, Fall Guys and Rocket League on there for now
Oh nice, Fall Guys comes to mobile.
Not even joking, if they honor their cut rates for Unreal Engine from the PC Store this will be very big.
- Unreal Engine is pretty good value for money already. You can make quite a large amount of money as an indie Dev before you have to give them any cut.
Only for EU iPhones, right?
- Yup. Worldwide on Android but only EU on iPhone.
  
  Maybe the EU will eventually extend these rules to the iPad. I’ve already tried installing from the epic website and the process is not that bad.
The bastards actually built what looks to be a nice platform. I can’t wait to install a different launcher for every app on my phone!
- Better to have competition than relying on the same launcher for every app. Monopolies are convinient but actually really bad for you.
  
  Yes but here’s the thing. I bought my iPhone because it’s damn simple. I don’t like spending time on my phone, simple is efficient. I’m envisioning a future where I have a folder full of wallet apps because every debit/credit card institution creates their own. All circumventing the privacy restrictions Apple forces on their AppStore. Truly the consumer has lost in this situation. If I didn’t want to use the AppStore - I would have bought a different phone.
  
  And is paying to have a game exclusively on your store good? Remember: Most people use Steam for the features it has (arguably whether necessary or not). Remember when it used to scan your Steam friend list file? Or the fact that it took three years for a shopping cart? Or the fact that the UI looks barebones? Oh, and Goat Simulator 3 was paid for as a temporary exclusive, and they were like, "Yeah, add it as a non-Steam game🤷‍♂️"? Or the fact that when someone hacks your account, you can send all the proof you want, but they say, "Nah, fuck you," while Steam does a better job? I can say that because, even if not directly, I helped someone recover their account with a simple email screenshot and receipt of a payment. Competition is good if you offer something better, and no, "free games" are not something better. People are even complaining about them because they don't give away AAA games but only "garbage" or repetitive ones.
  That's the normal user base you get in their https://lemmy.world/comment/11811952 collect and never play
Why?
- Don't have to pay apple / google 30%
- Because money. The market is huge.
Good but i hope everybody understands that this is not a real W for the peasants...
Not in the US
Wait so what was it that I had installed in my phone from epic?
Ignore the anti-Epic group, they just prefer monopolies

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