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I don't like Epic and not its freebies either particularly much, but i wouldn't say no to free games.

I didnt like them at release, grabbing up companies for exclusives, and limiting my choices.
But a year or so later I started to see how they were offering good competition to steam, and requiring a smaller cut from indie dev's.
Plus FREE GAMES!!! What's there left to hate?

half-half for me
plus - they give some great games for free and their launcher is only needed to download the games
minus - everything else

From what I've seen, most people say they hate/dislike Epic due to the (timed) exclusives, but they're generally lying to themselves, and everyone else. Most really don't care about exclusivity. If the games were exclusive to Steam, most of the complainers wouldn't bat an eyelid. It's more likely that they don't like the inconvenience of either having to wait for the game to release on Steam, or using another platform. Of course, some people have more reasonable issues with trust or security, and the lacking features, but it's a new platform and it'll improve in time, just like Steam did.

I'm no fan of Epic, and I think the only game I've played on their platform so far is The Outer Worlds, but I appreciate what they're doing. They're giving better deals to developers, allowing them to improve their games or work on new developments, all of which benefits the consumer. Valve/Steam had become way too comfortable sitting at the top of the food chain, and this extra competition from Epic is/will be a great thing for developers and consumers on both platforms.

The thing that's makes me laugh the most about all of this are the people who believe they'll never pay a penny to Epic, when they most likely already have, and will do again. Unreal Engine is used by a whole load of massive and successful games, all of which will be making Epic some more money, no matter what platform they're played on :)

I don't care much for EGS either way but still created my account last night for the free Remnant: From the Ashes. (I already had most other past freebies)
However, I have no intention of ever giving them money.
I'm not sure what will happen when the Fortnite cash runs out though.

Anyone who likes Epic supports bad treatment of employees and hates humans. Fact.

Categorizing people between groups of fanboys and haters is never a good representation of the pc gamer base.
There are multiple services, we the vast majority simply choose the one that offers the better service for us, the consumers.
commenting on EGS issues, or their unprofessional twitter usage does not label us as haters.

There are not evil, they met an unexpected success with Fortnite and they try to capitalize on that because they know Fortnite won't last forever.

Sure that's a little dirty but competition is good plus paying 30% to sell your game is just too much.

Only 2 problems that can be fixed easily:

1. No regional pricing (at least in my region)
2. It feels so lonely! (It feels like you are in a huge amusement park, but no one is there)

Epic let a random person register with my email and spammed me everyday with their newsletters (while I have never even visited their site). Took a while to resolve it. So no, I don't like them.

Its just another market for pc games. Who actually cares.

I don't like them because it is a super rich corporation that likes to lie and paint themselves as a hero of the industry while buying out games as exclusives so other people can't buy them without their platform and that makes their rich corporation even more rich.

For me they are just a greedy villain that wants to be called hero.

I am sure I am not

I'm not at all a fan of their launcher or storefront, or the lack of useful features on both.

Honestly, outside of the free games, their deals aren't any better than I've been able to get elsewhere. I purchased World War Z and John Wick Hex, but haven't been even slightly tempted to purchase much else (and being forced to buy one game at a time during a sale is just outright annoying!).

LOL! Tim has gone insane trying to lower the cuts that Apple and Google get from third party devs. I mean It's all about that Fortnite money. Let's see how their lawsuit ends up.
One more reason to hate Epic I guess.

I don't hate it nor do I like it. The free games are swell and I got a few games that are lower priced from any of the other services. I don't like that I have a lot of these individual apps that I need to open to play games but a good game's a good game and if I can't wait and the price is lower, I'd buy it from their store.

Though I regret being locked out of my account for like half a year and missing out on a bunch of stuff, I think I've claimed somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 free games on there, many of which seem like things I would want to check out eventually. S'definitely something I appreciate!

So far, I've only played around with, like, Ape Out and Stanley Parable, both for maybe an hour or so. So the Epic Games Launcher is literally just a 'log in and grab free games for potential future use' app for me at the moment; it hasn't become part of my actual gaming routine yet.

People hate them because of their policy of bribing developers for exclusivity (so that developers who even had their Steam pages up essentially leave Steam, usually for a year) and thus stripping users of their platform choice and forcing them on the Epic client or, if they refuse, making them unable to buy and play the desired game. This policy obsesses over developers, but completely disregards the customers, their right of platform choice and their convenience, treating them like mindless sheep who will go where the content is, even if that content is served on a pile of turd.

I don't really like that they giveaway so much games. If i would play new games I would be afraid that if I buy game it would be given away on Epic few weeks later. The fact that Tencent owns 40% of Epic also doesn't help. I really hate Tencent and avoid them if I can.

Do you have or like the freedom of speech in the public?
If the answer is positive, then good, cherish and enjoy what you have now because the ePig shxxt doesn't have any on their platform.

I don't like Epic mainly because of the following reasons:

• Exclusivity deals, I consider this anti-consumer and not real competition
• Ties with Tencent/China government and the suspect behavior of the launcher
• No official Linux support

As far as I am concerned, Epic has basically burnt their bridges. It will take a lot for them to earn some respect. Recent silliness of trying to rile up fortnight players to fight their platform wars for them makes me like Epic even less.

It seems to be quite fashionable. As a fashion misfit, I'm not particularly fond of Valve, primarily because they are excluding me from the Steam Market and holding my wallet funds hostage until I purchase a new game or DLC directly from the Steam Store or add more funds to the wallet. Also, they spent years and millions of dollars fighting for the right to continue breaking consumer protection law.

Client is very very poor compared to steam or gog, and store does not even have a basket system.
That being said, I buy my gaming licences where they are cheaper, and Epic didn't try to screw me yet (unlike valve). So I'm happily using their services.

Business practices. Look at the crap they just pulled with Fortnite. They 100% knew it would get pulled off both app stores and they even already had a pre-made video response. They are just trash.