Is Epic Games safe to get free games from?

I've been grabbing the free stuff and playing it since almost the beginning, and I haven't had any real issues. Not sure that I'd give them my credit card information, but here's what you do: you buy a Visa gift card, and use that like a credit card, and it should work. I know it doesn't work for GOG, because it has to be a purchase within the USA, and they operate out of Poland, but I think Epic operates out of the US. If it doesn't work, you use that Visa gift card for groceries or something; problem solved.

As for stealing your data and selling it to advertisers, I'd like to direct your attention to that Google ad to your left that's for the thing it just heard you talking about in Meatspace.

The launcher is absolute garbage and doesn't work if you have no Internet - mine went out one time, and that was that - but you can boot the games from your hard drive, or GOG Galaxy 2.0, which runs almost anything.

1. the steam friendlist drama is bs. steam stores all the data in plain text. valve is the one who you should blame for that. basically, any program that you installed and gave proper permissions can do that.
2. the spyware drama is bs too. every site is tracking you, microsoft is tracking you. valve is tracking you. why should you be bothered about epic.
3. the way epic storms the market is unethical beyond excuse. but it's not illegal by any means.
4. if you heard some rumors, you can use google to find proofs and/or debunks within a single search. it only matters if you want to know for sure or just wish to follow the stream of socially accepted opinion about it.

It's safe. Most of "Steam vs Epic" discussions are similar to "Nintendo vs Playstation 1" or "Digimon vs Pokemon "and so on, it's just the current "X vs Y" stuff we have all the time and here you're on a Forum dedicated to Steam, so most of people will tell you that Epic is a big bad evil and Steam is perfect and always have been ,) !

Any big platform is a security hazard, really. Remember back when PSN was hacked and millions of data was stolen?

People says, when you are forced to accept their EULA, instead of clicking with your mouse on a tiny check box, Tim Sweney demand you to "sign" with a drop of blood, and by using EPIC you agree an exclusivity agreement, your soul belong to him for at least for 12 months, before you can give it back to Lord Gabe, (LOL)

Just grab the keys for now. It's all just handled through browser, and is the same as any other claim-and-grab site. You can hold on to the keys until you're comfortable with Epic (if ever). Better to have them now, and be able to access them later if needed, than to not have them at all.

If you're like the rest of us, you'd be backlogging those games anyway, so it's probably gonna all work out the same in the end. :P

I don't even care anymore. Just stop being a bunch of babies and get yourselves some free games. All of this nonsense about Epic spying on you and doing all kinds of other things is just scaremongering from a bunch of store wars fanboys.

After I was invited to use GOG Galaxy 2.0, it's solved all of my problems. I just sync all of my launchers into one now, it's the best way forward.

Honestly, people freak out a lot about Epic Games but I'd say the Epic Games Launcher (and the games there) are about as safe as most DRMs out there - can they "spy" on you and "steal" your data? To an extent. Will they do it? Only if they can/are allowed to do it, because in most cases breaking the law for user data is very, very not worth it. Also, 99% of the time, the user is mostly at fault for allowing the company access to their data by agreement and through carelessness.

I've been using the Epic DRM for months and haven't had a single issue, except game-specific ones which had nothing to do with Epic or their DRM. In general the DRM is very barebones and really needs improvement to be considered decent (for example, you can't modify your downloads queue which is really troublesome if you're trying to install a game but have pending downloads), but otherwise it runs rather well and doesn't cause any significant problems so far.

However, I might add that you're late on the freebies - this was part of a holiday event which has just ended. You might have to wait and see if they do another freebies event.

I got all the free games so far but I only played into the breach... The rest i already own on steam or its crap. Safety wise theres no probs so far maybe cause i didn't purchase from them yet.

Free is free. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

it's a trash company but you can get free games without issues.

They are 'safe' but they suck balls

There are three things that mean I refuse to buy from Epic:
1 - No wishlist. So I can't mark a game as something that interests me, then come back and buy it at a discount.
2 - No system I can use to track my backlog. Which means I risk buying a game, then never noticing that I haven't played it.
3 - No shopping cart. So every single game and every piece of DLC is a seperate credit card transaction. Which would get annoying and risks tripping anti-fraud systems at your bank and locking your credit card.

Now, as grabbing the free games makes #2 worse, I've been grabbing every single game they give away.

It certainly isn't safe to download any games from Epic (or at least to admit here to doing so)... you may get burned at the stake for doing so :(

78 million kids playing Fortnite, can't be wrong? :)

If you're asking the question now, it means you missed out on 70+ games the last year. Shame