tldr; Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection. You'll have to give Bungie whole bunch more money if you really want to play. Don't give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they'll always try to screw you. Don't get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

According to the article, Epic is giving away Destiny 2: Legacy Collection which contains The Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep. If you've never played Destiny 2 and think this seems great because now you can start playing Destiny 2 for the first time. This isn't so. You'll still need to spend bunch of more money if you want access to seasonal content and they're really not an optional. Just when you thought you're done, you'll then have to buy the Dungeon content which isn't part of season pass. Oh by the way you can't just buy season pass with money. You have to purchase their premium currency and then buy season pass with that currency which means you'll always have a left over premium currency. This is definitely scammy and it's by design.

Destiny 2 is dystopian microtransaction hellscape. They've been adding layers of microtransactions for years and this is the result. If you want to see how bad it has gotten watch this video by Aztecross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIdPWB2_JA

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Warframe is a free alternative to destiny , its in steam and runs on linux. For those looking for that type of game. There is a warframe community on lemmy too.

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[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

Bungie was given 1.2 BILLION to retain talent. They decided to fire 100 people going back to the Halo days.

That right there ended any money I'll ever give to Bungie.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

i bought that game full price. 60 dollars

still better use of my money than black ops 4 was

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 80 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I won't support any store that sabotages Linux on purpose. Just earlier today I read a lame excuse for them to not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox. Of course, it's easy not getting tempted since I don't have a windos system to begin with.

[–] silentknyght@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Bad take.

I'll remind you that Steam needs SOME competition in order to actually get better, and I can't think of anyone else able to do it (Microsoft has kinda already tried and failed). Remember when Steam suddenly addressed long-standing issues with the client and storefront a couple years ago? That was because the EGS appeared.

I'll also remind young folks that the Internet was extremely negative regarding steam when it was new. Yes, I've been on Steam for 20+ years.

Tldr: EGS is fine. Relax.

Edit: clarity

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Also a bad take. Competition is good, and a proper competitor to steam would benefit us all, but users don't have to support them just on the basis of them being competitors.

I agree "EGS is bad because I want only steam" is silly, but if it's a worse experience for the individual user or if they perceive it's involved in non consumer friendly practices, it's perfectly normal they are not supported.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I fully support a good competitor to Steam like GOG. It may be less convenient than Steam but it has one key feature that no other shop has: no DRM.

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the best way forward. If GOG had more games it would change the industry. More companies need to partner with them.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

GOG still has that niche of the "old games." Can't think of anywhere else I could get DOS games from my childhood that also come with patches and updates to make them work on modern systems.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Except that Valve revamped Steam loads of times before anyone else was even competing with them. The biggest was when The Orange Box launched and they had added better Friends support as well as literally all the community features and achievement systems. EGS didn't launch until 2018. Origin didn't launch until 2011.

[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You aren't supporting them by accepting free games and then not using them. It costs them money to give them to you.

[–] Radicaldog@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We found out in the Apple lawsuit that the games are fixed price for Epic, so you can download or not as you wish - individually you do not make their cost go up.

[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Ahh!I didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.

[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Not entirely true. You're giving them users and downloads to pad their stats.

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[–] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No no, you don't get it. Windows has problems, but switching to Linux would be like leaving your home country because you don't like its political trends. Where's your OS patriotism? There's no need for Linux, because you can just keep using Windows and hope Microsoft ends up doing what's best for their ~~customers~~ products :)

I'm paraphrasing here, but that's an actual thing the CEO and founder of Epic Games posted on Twitter: https://nitter.net/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698

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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

not support Linux with Fortnite despite only needing to click a single checkbox

I'd love to see that, because my understanding is that the anticheat software that fortnite and others use requires pretty deep access to your system that linux either can't or won't give them

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[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They can all be free, I'm still not touching your launcher.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Same. I'd rather pay for my games than be bribed to use their launcher.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think there are alternative FOSS launchers that you can use if the issue is the launcher itself. On the deck I use Heroic, I think there are also for windows.

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago (5 children)

It's the general business scumminess towards consumers. I want Epic to fail for it.

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[–] ram 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that's much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA'd and updated. It's wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it's better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Did someone say "bribes"? I take bribes!

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no need to use their launcher, as there are open source alternatives. "legendary" is a tool that can download sand install games from epic, but it's command line only. Fortunately, there is also "heroic", which is a GUI for it and honestly a pretty good one. Can also handle GOG games.

They work well for me, haven't had epic's launcher installed in a very long time.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

That's a neat fact I'm going to store away if I ever want to play a game from epic haha

[–] Shadywack@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Until Bungie gives me back the content I already paid for, that company can rot in hell. I feel for the devs who point stuff out to leadership and tell them exactly what they need to do to fix their reputation, but the leadership saying "player's still love us" means that piece of shit scumbag, Pete Parsons, can go get dry fucked by splintering balsa wood.

I won't play the Legacy Collection, not even when it's free. Fuck you, Bung-hole.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I stopped playing way back during Forsaken, and even then I was getting soured on the game.

Then I found out they effectively deleted the first couple year's worth of content and I got pissed off for the community.

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[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Look Epic, those are very nice presents but as I told you many times already, I am happily married to Steam and I plan to keep it that way. Please respect my decision and stop sending me gifts, it´s getting awkward and honestly you´re making an ass of yourself.

[–] darelik@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I am polygameous

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

How long can they keep giving away free games when their store has never made a profit?

[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

…ever heard of a little thing called Fortnite? I hear it makes a tiny bit of cash money for them.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (14 children)

Ok well people spend money on Fortnite and we get free games, that's a good deal.

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

As long as it takes for them to build a userbase. They can afford giving away games constantly until users start using the store for real.

[–] Amanduh@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Jokes on them i just login to get free games lol

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[–] The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (8 children)

No thanks. We don't need a spyware on our systems.

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[–] quams69@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Nah honey

[–] dalakkin@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tbh I love Steam, but I think it's nice with a little competition. Definitely checking this out

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then go promote GOG or itch.io. Don't support companies with monopolistic behavior

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[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Nice try fed, still not gonna get on their app

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