Posted a listing of engineering video games.

I have fasted for three straight days on many occasions and it was pretty easy for me. Drinking zero-calorie beverages (coffee, tea, water) should be fine. This is not professional medical advice and definitely do not do this if you are an alcoholic, diabetic, or pregnant. Once you break the fast, do so with moderation.

Yikes. Good point.

"Based"?

Admirable; praiseworthy, especially if the thing that is considered "praiseworthy" is unpopular or controversial.

There’s no reason to be rude. See Rule 1.

I only know it as “I approve of this”, not “lol, I don't approve of this, but I say I am to be hilarious”. This is the danger of adopting this Nazi Internetspeak to be funny.

No one said that it is all like that, but enough of /b/ is so gross as to taint the reputation of the entire site. Allowing some of the stuff that is on there is enough guilt by association, even if some of the other boards have better discourse.

I did.

If you did, then I answered the genuine question you asked.

It's all I need: I buy a game, I download and play it. I don't need anything else.

Having a bunch of features that I don't want or need is a waste. The Epic Store and Steam both do exactly what I need, so I don't care about any of whatever the other features are.

Correct, correct, not correct (but if they don't sell what I want, then I would buy it elsewhere).

No and it's not worse service.

What is the alternative to Steam?

Their service is in no way worse: I buy games, and I get them.

I'm excited about the fact that someone provides an alternative to the monopoly that is Steam.

There are already comments claiming this, thanks.

Exactly. Not having an alternative marketplace--and no other one exists--is anti-customer and yet, you seem to have no problem with a Steam monopoly. Why?

Probably not. Do games on the Epic Store cOSt TwIcE aS MucH? Do you routinely buy goods and services with irrelevant features to your needs?

There are almost 40,000 entries, I obviously cannot answer for all of them.

Still waiting for you to answer my question.

How about you write what you mean and have quality conversation in the future?

Except when it was on 4chan and it was actual Nazis just being Nazis. So no, not blatantly sarcasm.

There are tens of thousands of Steam-exclusive games: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_exclusive_to_Steam

What is the alternative to Steam?

No, Steam are the monopoly now! The only other option is Good Old Games and for weird indie titles Itch.io.

Yes, I do, or else I wouldn't have mentioned it. I'd prefer the publisher gets money over a middleman store. Isn't that preferable?

Quite likely, but until then...

The "killer feature" is that they pay more to the developers, so if you are getting the exact same game on (e.g.) Steam versus Epic Games, then whomever actually made the game gets more money from the Epic sale. Isn't that a good thing?

(Note that I may be conflating the publisher with the developer, but either way, it's still the case that less money is taken by intermediaries, which is a good thing.)