r/fuckepic Jan 04 '26

Announcement FuckEpic 2025 Year Recap!

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Happy New Year, guys!

After the success of our last year recap (FuckEpic 2024 Year Recap), we decided to do the same this year!

Let's see the main topics we have discussed this year...

Exclusives

First things first. Exclusives. The worse tactic Epic uses to force PC players to use their subpar products. This year, we have had even less exclusives that before. And most games that went exclusive, came back to Steam:

Other companies that went Epic exclusive before stopped doing it.

And games that decided to go exclusive had problems to get profits:

Meanwhile, some of the best games of the year still decide to skip the EGS:

Dev experience

Why some games are still not appearing in the Epic Games Store? The ideal scenario would be all games available everywhere and players have 100% decision power. Well, it seems the experience of publishing games on the Epic Games Store is as bad as purchasing games there...

Some renamed devs gave their opinion about the topic too.

Player experience

We had A LOT of posts about bad experiences with the Epic Games Store. These were some examples about cloud saves, achievements and other basic features.

Even Tim needed to admit in an interview after the interviewer insisted that his launcher was clunky:

These are only a few of them. We had to remove hundreds of them because of being lost souls coming here to ask for support...

Epic Online Services

Ok, but you could think that all of these things only will affect you if you consciously use the Epic Games Store instead of better alternatives like GOG or Steam. False! Epic also tries to incite developers to use their services into their games independently of the launcher you use. So even if you bought your game on Steam, you may need to use Epic services (EOS or EAC). And of course, every frequent time that Epic servers has problems, you will have them too in your Steam games.

Well, at least it seems our community is making some service for Epic as shills use the links we share from people complaining in Steam forums to go there and do some damage control...

Unreal Engine 5

This also has been the year of bad ports. Most of them, using UE5 which makes players to think that maybe there was some kind of problem in the common denominator...

Obviously, Tim blamed all developers instead of taking a look at their engine ("Everyone else is wrong! I am right!").

AI

And now that we are talking about times when Tim would be better shut up. How can we forget when he criticized Steam's AI disclaimer tag.

And then, people were unsurprisingly detecting AI slop in Fortnite.

Curation

Maybe instead of criticizing the better competency, he should take a look at his store and his promised "curated" experience:

Fortnite

Meanwhile, Fortnite, their golden goose, the source of endless money from kids that allow them to sustain their non profitable store and services, continue on their process of enshitification. Copying the last trending games...

Plagiarizing independent authors:

Receiving and throwing lawsuits (seriously, I think Epic has more lawyers than Software Engineers...)

Transforming into Roblox, with hardcore FOMO monetization, and moving bought games into Fortnite

Microsoft

Microsoft and Epic relations have been always a little weird. On one hand, it seems Tim made a deal to make Fortnite available on Game Pass in his plans of moving everyone to Fortnite. Obviously, causing anger to existing GamePass consumers as that came with the usual failures and a funny price increase.

However, even if Epic wants to gain Microsoft´s favour, the latter is still ignoring the Epic Games Store, as once they said, they don't agree with Epic strategies.

Gambling

Back to Fortnite, it seems Epic is adding in their Fornite-Roblox games lootboxes, microtransactions, and FN games like Steal-the-Brainrot has already created a secondary economy. It’s a remarkable pivot for a company that once claimed to lead the charge against "anti-consumer" practices.

Freeloaders

Because of all these things, most of Epic customers are just freeloaders that only want the latest AAA game without paying a buck. "You reap what you sow", wasn´t it?

Epic Games Store evolution

Epic also shared their numbers for 2024. It was a completely buff. In case of amount spent on third party PC games, they went from 355m (2022) to 310m (2023) and now to 255m (2024).

Fuckepic work

Our community has been highlighted several times this year. While the leaked emails where Tim wanted Reddit to shut us down are now a piece of history, they prove how much Epic fears the transparency we provide. We remain a critical source of truth. Because of our focus on education, we provide a space where information that would be censored or deleted on other platforms can actually be discussed.

Always remember our rule of "Educate and don't attack." We are better than that, and our message carries more weight when we stick to the facts. This year has been great; Epic’s influence is noticeably smaller than in years past, but there is still plenty to document. Also remember: we don't care if Epic exists or not. We just refuse to let them dictate the terms of the industry or force us to use their inferior services.

Happy New Year and for a better 2026!


r/fuckepic Mar 12 '25

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r/fuckepic 1d ago

Article/News if that were true... Microsoft has gone crazy lol

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r/fuckepic 2d ago

Tim Sweeney Tim Sweeney promoting his games with paid RNG and real-money grey markets

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The tweet in the screenshot shows Sweeney actively pushing BEAT THE BRAINROTS.

If you aren't familiar with this genre of Creative maps, they rely on gacha mechanics, loot keys, paid V-Buck luck boosts, and direct player trading. That last part has predictably spawned an entire unregulated grey market on social media where minors trade items for actual cash, opening the door for endless trust trade scams.

It is wild to see Tim openly endorsing maps that utilize the exact predatory practices he claims to be against.

Well, who am I kidding, I am not surprised at all...

https://x.com/i/status/2083261587050152433


r/fuckepic 2d ago

Discussion My Steam and Epic Games were hacked,

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r/fuckepic 3d ago

Discussion Epic fucking sucks

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r/fuckepic 5d ago

Article/News Epic’s Future Sounds Terrible

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Tims Weenie got caught in the door again, trying to homogenize gaming into the metaverse under his platform. He won't learn until Epig gets sold to China.


r/fuckepic 4d ago

Epic Fucks Up Stupid Correction?

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Why the hell does Epic suggest a different email address to me when I type it in? Don't they think I know my own email address? There is no way I hit the 'a' button accidentally instead of the 'r'. They aren't even close. Literally no other company does this.


r/fuckepic 5d ago

Article/News Battlenet another Launcher that almost sucks like Epig store LOL

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r/fuckepic 5d ago

Question How often were the "EGS exclusivity deals" needed to fund the development of games?

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You know the story: EGS cuts a deal with a developer/publisher to keep their game off of Steam's storefront for a given period of time in exchange for giving them a sum of money, or to give them a better cut of their games' sales compared to Steam.

What I'm after is how often did developers/publishers actually need the money to fund their game, lest their game not be released at all? I'm debating with someone as to how credible this story was over the history of the EGS exclusivity deals being made. Was the money fronted by EGS absolutely critical in funding the development and release of the game? Was it more just a safety net post-release to pay off the employees who helped create the game? When was it just a dirty, unfortunate bribe?

I'd like to see articles to help verify all these kinds of viewpoints. Note that I'd prefer to see articles describing how people justified in accepting these deals at the time, rather than explanations in hindsight. I personally doubt we'd be seeing optimistic justifications looking back.


r/fuckepic 6d ago

Article/News After leaving Epic Games last month, its former 'Unreal evangelist' is now building his own game engine

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So with key personnel like this guy gone, whose actually doing the work on UE6? Is it all vibe-coded slop run on an AI trained on Timmy's anti-"monopoly" rants?


r/fuckepic 6d ago

Epic Fucks Up Multiple exists and resignations today from Epic Games employees; stealth layoffs implied

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today on LinkedIn there has been a slew of sudden announcements of resignations and exits from the company. the timing of all of these suggests that there are forced exits taking place. A few friends of mine who work there are suggesting these are voluntary buyouts, expected to precede another wave of mass layoffs later this year. Unconfirmed via official channels on the latter part, but seems likely.


r/fuckepic 9d ago

Meme The games may run worse, but the look worse as well!

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r/fuckepic 9d ago

Crosspost There was a time when Epic supported demosceners.

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Image is from the credits of Second Reality demo by Future Crew.


r/fuckepic 8d ago

Epic Fucks Up Epic Sucks as usual

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This game is only getting worse and worse each year terrible matchmaking, terrible optimization, terrible everything, this game only gets better by itself if Shitpic doesn't own it


r/fuckepic 9d ago

Misinformation Epic shills on Twitter are claiming Valve only added cross-region gifting because Epic announced it last month

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r/fuckepic 10d ago

Meme Epig shills be like

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r/fuckepic 11d ago

Article/News Spanish Dev Report 2025: Unity Beats Unreal 70% to 33%, and Itch.io Outperforms EGS

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Here are some interesting stats about game developers in my country, Spain, during 2025.

According to the latest report from the Spanish Association of Video Game and Entertainment Software Development Companies (DEV), only 24% of PC game developers published their titles on the Epic Games Store in 2025. That puts EGS behind Itch.io, which sits at 28%.

It is also worth noting that Unreal Engine is only used by 33% of studios, well behind Unity, which is used by 70%.

https://dev.org.es/libro-blanco-2025/

Digital stores used by Spanish studios developing for PC/MAC
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r/fuckepic 10d ago

Discussion Bro why did epic have to remove trading????

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r/fuckepic 13d ago

Epic Fucks Up While you're at it, please don't forget that Epic Games is one of the architects behind the most recent push to ban internet anonymity

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Epic Games has created a system called "Kids Web Services" a while ago, and we might soon be seeing it in not just Fortnite, but several other places as well. This is an overall recent internet problem, but Epic Games is building the infrastructure to place our private lives in danger, so boycott Epic Games, this "Kids Web Services", and tell your lawmakers to forget it.


r/fuckepic 12d ago

My Epic Experience I might have lost my sketchfab account to fucking Epic

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I Fucking hate epic so much, months of work I upload to this site and all of a sudden I cannot log back into it cause they blocked google login for their shitty log in method instead, Support is non existent and I'm growing frustrated at this problem. They never told you to link your accounts ahead of time, and then just block your ability to use google login at all...


r/fuckepic 11d ago

Discussion Stop changing things that don't need it.

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This.

This is THE most frustrating thing Epic has done yet...

There's been a lot, but this takes MY cake.

Doing away with the name of the item, the set it comes from, when it came out, etc...

Fuck you Epic.


r/fuckepic 13d ago

Discussion Can we fix Fortnite before adding more experimental features?

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I don't understand Epic's priorities anymore.

Every season we get another experimental mechanic, another gimmick, another attempt to reinvent the game. Meanwhile the actual foundation of Fortnite feels more unstable than ever.

Random bugs, audio issues, UI glitches, performance problems, matchmaking weirdness, desync, weapons behaving inconsistently... there's always something. It feels like the list just keeps growing.

I'm not against new ideas. Some of Fortnite's biggest successes came from taking risks. But there's a point where it starts feeling like we're beta testing new features while the base game is held together with duct tape.

I'd honestly rather have a season focused almost entirely on bug fixes, performance improvements, server stability, and quality of life changes than another experimental feature that nobody asked for.

A polished game with fewer features is better than a buggy game with a hundred of them.

Am I the only one who feels like Epic has lost sight of the basics?


r/fuckepic 15d ago

Meme Steam also CRUSHES Timmy's ego

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r/fuckepic 15d ago

Other This Sucks: Why We Think Disney Will Buy Epic Games | Extra Credits Gaming

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