Steam is popular and has a loud following because it does not make unethical choices that annoy users. I completely understand why people do not want to pay the Steam tax, but the Epic launcher is a scummy experience. It was my second experience outside of playing Fortnite on PC. I bought Metro Exodus on Epic Games recently. We have lots of external shareholders, none of whom have access to customer data. However information from this file is only sent to Epic if you choose to import your Steam friends, and then only hashed ids of your friends are sent and no other information from the file.Įpic is controlled by Tim Sweeney. The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file.
We only import your Steam friends with your explicit permission. The launcher scans your active processes to prevent updating games that are currently running. The root certificate and cookie access mentioned above is a result of normal web browser start up. The majority of the launcher UI is implemented using web technology that is being rendered by Chromium (which is open source). The source of the underlying system is available on github. The UDP traffic highlighted in this post is a launcher feature for communication with the Unreal Editor. The launcher sends a hardware survey (CPU, GPU, and the like) at a regular interval as outlined in our privacy policy(see the “Information We Collect or Receive” section). We use a tracking pixel (tracking.js) for our Support-A-Creator program so we can pay creators. I’ll post Epic Games response in the thread here also.
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