How do you feel about GOG.com exclusives?
I'm actually okay with GOG exclusivity since GOG is a secure platform, unlike the Epic Store which is a spyware for the Chinese
Uh, that's not true?
Which part? The part about GoG being secure or the part about the Epic store being spyware?
https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/03/16/valve-to-investigate-epic-game-stores-use-of-steam-files
I have not seen any sort of evidence that the Epic store spies for the Chinese government specifically, but it's had more than it's share of privacy concerns over the last few months.
As far as I know the spyware accusation is based exclusively on the import friends from Steam feature, and it is baseless.
The bit about China is just silly.
Take a look at the article I linked. It's doing more than just importing friends lists with permission. Epic itself has acknowledged this, but claims it was a mistake and not intentional. From another article...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/epic-games-responds-store-privacy,38835.html
"Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney eventually chimed in to explain that "the current implementation is the result of a system that was built quickly and then rapidly modified before launch." (This makes it seem like he's talking about the Epic Games Store launch; in another comment, he said he's talking about Fortnite.)
"It's a klunky method that we'll fix," Sweeney said. He also explained that Epic didn't just use the Steam API because "we avoid including third-party code in our engine wherever possible, as it often brings its own privacy, security, and licensing complications (though Valve has a fine reputation)."
In another comment, Sweeney cited a report about iOS apps sending private data to Facebook to explain "the general concern of APIs collecting more data than expected." He also said:
"You guys are right that we ought to only access the localconfig.vdf file after the user chooses to import Steam friends. The current implementation is a remnant left over from our rush to implement social features in the early days of Fortnite. It's actually my fault for pushing the launcher team to support it super quickly and then identifying that we had to change it. Since this issue came to the forefront, we're going to fix it.""
"Since this issue came to the forefront, we're going to fix it.", in case you're wondering, is corporate speak for "we were totally ok doing something illegal, but since we got caught I guess we're going to pretend to be sorry about it and change it, provided we can't just give the illusion of changing it."
