Posted October 28, 2022
Syphon72: I know Epic is cool to hate but they seem to be okay with DRM free. I guess Rage 2 and Days gone are drm free on epic.
Not strictly true. They prefer that devs take full advantage of their EOS client integration, but other than that they don't force the DRM agenda for runtime operability. That's not all that different from Steam, really. In both cases you need their client to download (unless you're going to risk using the 3rd-party one), and it's up to the game whether the installation is portable or able to be played without the client at all after installation.
And I might add that in my experience a significant amount of "DRM-free" (or rather capable of running without the client) games on EGS are in fact releases the game devs originally made for GOG (they still contain the Galaxy dlls!), but they just repackaged them again for Epic (same as for some old DOS titles on Steam). So if GOG waters down its DRM stance or drops out of the market you can guarantee the number of games not fully integrated into the EGS client, or have invasive DRM frameworks/libraries removed will dry up rather quickly.
But yeah, EGS isn't too bad right now when it comes to DRM. But the number of games which got client-integrated after release has increased over the past few years. It may not be "okay" forever.
Post edited October 28, 2022 by Braggadar