What are the reasons why somebody would buy a game on Epic Games Store instead of Steam, Gog, etc.?

I am just curious cause to me there is absolutely no reason for me to ever buy games there. I have an account there to claim the freebies, but i never intend to spend any money there.

Steam has convenience, trading cards, badges.

GOG is DRM-free, has offline installers (i dunno what people see in them, but they are a thing).


Both of these platforms have achievements and cloud saves for some games. And contrary to epic, they have a forum.

Say, Cyberpunk is releasing (besides consoles) on Epic, Steam and GOG. If you buy it on Steam, you get (probably) trading cards etc. on GOG, you get the game DRM-free and you support CD Projekt.

Why would anyone purchase it on Epic?

The Google AI spam bot is strong today, 8 inane questions on the main page alone.

GOG is also client-free. Now, that is a thing. For me, the best Galaxy is a galaxy far, far away.

I don't know what people see in clients, badges, trading cards posting obvious bait, but it's all a thing.

What do you mean obvious bait? I am nice

Look, there are only two explanations for someone posting "i dunno what people see in DRM-free, offline installers" on GOG forum. One is trolling. The other doesn't assume nearly as much intelligence.

Exclusives and significantly lower prices. They often have 10 EUR off coupons applicable to anything over 15 EUR, discounts included, so let's say a rather new game that usually costs 30 EUR is discounted by 50% on Epic, Steam and GOG, so at the latter stores you would pay 15 EUR, but on Epic only 5 EUR, which is significant enough as a difference to be worth it for some.

Of course, Epic doesn't play "fair" in this regard, they're "buying" the customers with the coupons, freebies and exclusivity deals. If a game would be available in all stores to the same (discount) price, I think hardly anyone would buy it on the Epic store. Except maybe those who want to support the devs getting a higher cut (I think it was 70% on Steam and GOG, 80% on Epic or so?).

you dont know what people see in offline installers? common sense, you back up the game to have control when to install games. the point of gog's appeal is to own the game and not rent like steam. btw epic store seems to have more drm free games than steam. none have installers though/

I buy games on Epic. Why? Because some of them are released there as an exclusivity and I happen to want to play them RIGHT NOW.

That's as simple as that. Last example to date was Borderlands 3. I'm happy it is now on Steam so more people can enjoy it, but for me it was day one.

I buy games on Epic store, on GOG, on Steam and, hell, even sometimes on uPlay!!! It all depends on where the product is available or where is the best discount. End of story.

Do I care about Epic store policies? No. But freebies are nice. Do I love Steam? Not specially. Do I cherish GOG? No more.

Do I use clients (Galaxy, Epic, Steam...)? Of course. Because it is convenient.

Are achievements a must have? No, but it's nice when there are some.

And all that is purely my opinion. It's neither wrong, nor right (neither good nor bad, also), but it's my opinion.

If it's not available to buy on GOG, I will buy access to the game from the cheaper store, whether that be Epic, Steam, Uplay, Bethesda or wherever. Steam & Epic are one in the same to me, neither are the 'good guy'. I don't care about achievements or trading cards either, I just want to enjoy a game. I don't see the point in being a die hard fanboy of somewhere that gives no crap about anything other than your money. Steam will happily sell you a non-working game.

Neither. I just stated i don't use them because Galaxy is very convenient and i see no reason not to use it.

All right, you are right, maybe they are needed for DRM-free. But that doesn't mean i am dumb. If anthing you are dumb for making pointless accusations about me

Galaxy is not convenient at all, why would I click on a program just to click again to play a game?

- Because some games are on EGS exclusively first, and some people would prefer to play them when they are new and fresh, as opposed to playing them only after they have become old and stale, as they will be by the time they reach other platforms.

- Supporting EGS helps slowly to dismantle the Steam monopoly stranglehold over the PC games market. That iron grip isn't going to be loosened overnight, but over the course of many years, it can be done.

- EGS has given out way more free games and a way higher quality of free games than any other stores have. So buying from EGS is a nice way to show some gratitude for all the free stuff that they have (and continue to) very generously given away to consumers.

- Some people hate Steam for reasons like the shady way in which they gained their marketshare in the first place, via coercively forcing everyone to use their garbage DRM launcher, because almost no PC games were being sold without it being infested into them any more (i.e. even CD or DVD games sold in physical stores were all infested with the Steam DRM plague, even though though many consumers didn't want it). Also, some people object to how Steam often censors free speech on its platform, and how it sometimes steals people's games by banning their Steam account. That makes it sound like Steam is some pure angel which rose to prominence through its benevolent acts of good will and pro-consumer policies. But nothing could be further from the truth. Steam unfairly stole the PC games market from all of its competitors via its choice to purposely indulge in its own tyrannical anti-consumer behaviors.

Well, the thread is about Epic. I didn't say anything about Steam. All I said is that since at this point Epic has nothing else to offer yet, they have to invest a lot of money themselves to lure customers in with these costly tactics. Steam doesn't need to do it anymore because they're established already.

People buy for the exclusives or to support competition against a Steam monopoly for newly released AAA games. I haven't bought anything on Epic, but I created this thread because a lot of games there are DRM-Free (as in "no client required to play once you have the files") and many of those games are either not on GOG or are still DRM'd on Steam. I've always found that stuff to be useless gimmicks on any store. I mean the last time I wore a badge or "traded cards" with other people, I was still at Primary school...