SPT Score: Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, who has been its vice president since. After moving the headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio changed its name to Epic Games. Taken from Wikipedia.

Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, EULA.

Part I: Accounts

Score for Part I: -10

Part II: Use of Service:

Score for Part II: -130

Part III: Miscellaneous

Score for Part III: -35

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Total Score: -75

Analysis: Epic has always been second fiddle to Steam in terms of video game distribution. However, they seem to triumph over them when it comes to negative SPT scores. There's also been many reports regarding unauthorized data collection from their client, mainly what you have in your Steam library (someone's jealous). I've also heard whispers about their free games not exactly being free and instead of money you pay with your data. Not much I can say about this except to avoid it at all costs if you value your privacy. If you somehow still want to use Epic, I'd suggest using a 3rd party client like Heroic or Legendary.



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