I've heard they serve children for breakfast!

Best regards,
Gabe

The OP is a ridiculous premise.

If EGS had spyware and/or malware in the way how the OP is suggesting it might, then it would have been discovered eons ago and there would have been a huge media storm about it.

But EGS, like Steam and now like GOG Galaxy too, is a DRM launcher, so EGS is malware in that sense of the word. But it's no worse than Steam DRM malware and/or GOG Galaxy DRM malware.

I recently installed the launcher to play some of the free games I got, and while it seemed alright and not too bloated or anything, for some reason it constantly caused 5% CPU load even when it was minimized to the system tray. But the latest update apparently fixed that for me.

There was some noise a while back when some claimed that Epic Launcher "was spying on them". It turned out to be mostly "No Steam, No Buy" fanboys sulking over Epic's exclusives (and how "I now have to wait one single year for that AAA game I was going to buy on Steam after Epic grabbed it" = "worse than Hitler", whilst "GOG customers often have to wait up to 10 years for Steam-only AAA's to come to GOG" = "business as usual").

Several people at the time did some in-depth packet analysis and found no real "spying" or backdoors at all as was claimed. The worst that was found was that the Epic Launcher read a file used by the Steam client (localconfig.vdf) to see what games were installed on the system, whilst some of the supposed "shady stuff" was more then anti-Cheat technology bundled into Fortnite (that many were using the Epic Launcher for) and is no different to games on Steam / EA / UPlay using same anti-Cheat technology will also be "caught enumerating processes" (for "WallHack.exe", etc) in the same way. Likewise, "Epic Client is accessing your root certificates" was "it was actually Windows HTTP Services doing that" as part of normal Windows operation.

Bottom line - the Epic Launcher is missing a lot of features and is somewhat heavy & bloated, but isn't "official Chinese govt spyware" as was claimed. It does have DRM'd games but is also less aggressive at "recommending" developers DRM their games by default than Steam.

It's only missing features if you care about those features. The only 'feature' that I care about is that it downloads some DRM-free games that I can play offline and zip up for archiving/backup.

I'm surprised that you post such a thing - but maybe it's just a semantics thing and you just wanted the say that it has less features than other clients.

Unless something has changed since I last looked, I was referring to store (rather than client) features like a shopping basket (to buy more than one game at a time), reviews or simply better ways of finding games (showing related games on each game page).

It depends on the context, like so many things. Can I trust EGS, technically speaking, as it is now - vs. - Can I trust this company, generally speaking, from now until... whenever?

I've been using epic for almost a year now,

picked up some exclusives , some freebies, I do enjoy their store now it is still small. I've never had any trouble or warning but then again i'm only using norton to sort things out on my system. It seems all of their games can be played off line once installed by just disconnecting from the internet. Just as with galaxy the whole epic store seems to be a project in development.

one of their things to do is implement achievements for example. Halfway past last year i'm pretty sure i've read something about that but up until now it's been without achievements

does anyone have a clue when the achievements are supposed to be implemented?

Oh, that makes more sense (your previous post ;-) ).
Still, you shouldn't generalize it. Me, e.g., I know everything about a game before I buy it - I don't need or miss many 'store features'.
One could even argue that the single-item basket is more consumer friendly (in general) because it motivates people to think (more) before purchasing...

Harvey Dent, can we trust him?

yes

i believe in harvey dent

I know that it's a silly question... but it makes me think of something that hasn't been said before:
Companies aren't people (unlike Soylent Green).
Make of it what you want, relating to "trustworthiness".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ&ab_channel=CollegeHumor