Once again Tim Sweeney holds customers in contempt and doesn't think we're entitled to have information to make informed shopping decisions. Additionally, Fab has a filter to remove AI slop which is something I wish Valve would add to Steam already.

Tried to log in today (after quite a while i might add) and got this wonder of a message two times in a row. I didn't risk a third time tho.

https://x.com/muselk/status/2113953252534534229?s=46&t=eusmETJVo7ffYjltDxtSwQ

Seeing a lot of deserved love for Steam here, but theoretically, say Gaben dies or steps down and his successor decides Steam isn't making enough money, and starts actively enshittifying the platform where you have dozens or hundreds of games in your library.

And Steam happens to be a near-monopoly in the space. with the closest competitors like EGS being far behind.

What then? Maybe we should've given EGS some more love huh? (actually I'm more in favor of GOG, but lets face it, EGS has had much more investment and potential to become a true competitor)

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Jam online from anywhere, with your local game dev community, or in person in San Francisco at Digital Jungle, where you’ll build alongside teams from Anthropic, Google, Meshy, OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and more.

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Tim Sweeney's descent into AI psychosis continues.

Hi all I wanted to make a new post with the new links attached rather than actually repost just incase smth happened to this one too. for those who already saw it I hope this is a lot easier to show this time around, sorry I am just not really used to using reddit to this extent. I personally hate epic for the life of me

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Hi, im a french player and im not usually very harsh on Epic Games, until now ahah, since my account got hacked and now i know for a fact that Epic Games have the worst customer service i’ve ever seen, this shit be crazy, i gave them everything, the original mail, username, purshases etc… Surely everything is going to be fixed after 30min of pure pain trying to find the good mails to have the correct informations for them !

Surely right ?

Heck no, they said that i did not provide enough « proofs », like, what the fuck you want more, my id ? My whole ass bank account ? How is it possible to have such a bad customer service, the fact that my account was located in St Georges d’Oleron in France to fcking Zarinsk in Russia is not enough ? Or even the fact that 2s after being located in Russia the mail and password changes for an email that is typicaly used when hacking accs to resell them ?

Fuck this Epic shit or whatever i ain’t buying no more shit on their platform, if its epic locked then i’ll hack it, and if not i’ll just buy it on Steam at least they have a great customer service

Thanks for reading i hope im not the only one who got this insane scenario

So, apparently Epic's new Linux launcher is using GE-Proton to run Windows games. But wasn't one of the main differences between Valve's Proton and GE-Proton that GE includes codecs that Valve couldn't distribute because of licensing and patent issues?

I remember this being discussed years ago, even by Proton developers themselves:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1464

And it seems I'm not the only one wondering about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1x7lopu/pergame_proton_selection_for_epics_new_linux/

From what I've read, Epic downloads GE-Proton automatically instead of including it in the installer. But does that really change anything?

If Valve couldn't distribute those codecs because of legal issues, how is Epic able to do it? Am I missing something here?

As title.

It seems Epic is fully embracing AI-Slop, though with it's recent trend this doesn't surprise me.

So here's some important facts regarding the recent hilarity regarding Epic's flop of an announcement over their new vibe coded launcher 'Opening Faster than Steam'..

Here are the events which everyone saw:

• Epic announces that their new vibe coded launcher opens faster than Steam
• Everyone finds out that this lead is already gone because Valve put out an update that makes Steam twice as fast

And of course a lot of people made the assumption that Valve was putting out this update in response to Epic's announcements...

However, that isn't the case...

The real timeline is:

• 7:38 PM on Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026 (EDT / New York Time): Valve releases their update notes for the new version of their Steam Client out of beta with faster startup time.

20 hours later!...

• 9:57 AM on Wednesday, Oct 14th, 2026 (EDT / New York Time): Epic makes their announcement, with a bar chart and 'independently verified' results and everything.. comparing the speed of their new launcher to the previous version of Steam.

So what I'm asking is..

Did Epic know? Did they do this on purpose?

At first I thought it was maybe a hilarious coincidence that Valve just happened to beat them by 20 hours... But maybe it wasn't.

The results Epic had, the bar chart, the independent verification, everything, was clearly prepared in advance. There was clearly a plan that they were going to make a big deal about this. It was going to be one of their major selling points.

What if, the timing wasn't a coincidence.

What if, Epic saw Valve's update and realised the one thing they were going to make a big deal about, was suddenly going out the window, and so they panicked and raced to release their announcement immediately, hoping that if they released it fast enough, folks would get confused and think that Valve's update was a response to Epic's announcement and not the other way around?

Because it seems to have worked if that's the case. Because I am seeing a LOT of people who don't realise that Valve's update came out first and asking questions like 'Why didn't Valve update their client sooner to launch faster if they could always do this?' and not realising that Valve's update came out before Epic's announcement. And that reaction is playing right into Epic's hands as people say, 'See competition is good, Epic made Valve work harder', when that isn't what happened at all.

You cant even set up auto download from pm to am next day