As a company based in China I heard, is there any possibility of malware/spyware/nuisance ware whatever in it?
Anyone used Epics installer and can comment on first hand experience? Or heard anything in regards to this topic?(because if its a subtle backdoor, even using it people might not know)

"Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney."

http://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/about

I see, Still, can anyone speak directly about their launchers and product? Even if it's not Chinese spying, it could be ad ware type stuff,

So, who's used the Epic launcher and what was their experience with it? Or anything people have heard about it?

Similarly the games, are the Epic games patched and packaged correctly most of the time?

Can one get Epic launcher to easily run on Linux?

As far as I read there’s no evidence of EG spying for Chinese government, but if it is, it may be crucial for people from Hong Kong in question whether to use its launcher or not (however, I have no idea how it can spy on you unless you start the launcher and run a game).

What's the big deal? After listening to gamers, we've come to learn that malware/spyware/nuisanceware is preferred by gamers.

yes

I use EG launcher along with Galaxy and find it pretty inconvenient compared to Galaxy. It's not as overloaded as Steam client, although you're gonna have hard time while trying to find some information about games. Solid black theme may also feel strange and confusing. I only use it to play free games or some games which GOG lack of (if I ever buy there ones). Worse then Galaxy, still better then Steam.

I trust Epic. What i don't trust is Tencent.

Not sure if it runs on Linux through Wine but Epic don´t officially support Linux, even some games that have a Linux version on Steam, are Windows only on Epic.

However, many games there are DRM-free and you can use WINE/DXVK to play them.

Link to DRM- free on Epic list, kindly maintained by AB2012

I would have imagined many people, even on here, if only for the freebies (some of which are insane). I'm personally using it quite often these days due to playing some current games I own there. Windows games on linux.

The actual client software is ok, though a bit heavy for my tastes. It does its job, and isn't trying to be Facebook for nerds like STeam. I don't actually use the client software anymore though, as explained below (legendary is what you're after). Yes, no complaints there. Updates arrive on time and earlier than on GOG for example (especially for its offline installers). Just recently for example with Phoenix Point's update, just to name an example. Arguably easier than GOG/Galaxy. This is because Galaxy on wine is very clunky and buggy still, so then you have to use offline installers. Which nobody in their right mind would use without some kind of 3rd party tool, like lgogdownloader (the best one imo). So then you basically use a 3rd party tool to download the games, use wine to install them, and use wine to play them. Ok, completely doable and feasible (I do it with my offline games like Witcher 3 and XCOM 2), but not exactly the most user friendly experience out there. Overall I've been very disappointed with my Linux gaming experience on GOG, the DRM free platform that should have made things easier. Yet hasn't.

EGS actually provides a similar experience with a 3rd party tool, legendary, an alternative CLI client for Epic Games. For the DRM-free games, you can play them offline completely fine. Otherwise you get access to cloud saves if you so wish by logging in when playing through it. ANd even if you don't use legendary, you can wine EGS and it works well so no need to fiddle with additional utilities and installers.

Of course there are no native Linux games to my knowledge on Epic, which is a negative. Still, this is a larger shift away from native games due to outstanding performance of Wine/Proton, and I won't really go into this too much here. Other than to say that the diminishing number and quality of native linux games has had little impact for my gaming experience.

Also, I think someone's trying to make a gui for legendary, Heroic (lol), not sure why to be honest. But more choice is of course better.

No, you can't trust Epic, and certainly not Tencent.

There's no evidence that the Chinese "Government" is using Epic to spy on people through Tencent (which is just a shareholder in Epic). That being said, if you're based in Hong Kong, I can appreciate your caution. The programme likely uses telemetry.

As a store/launcher, it's serviceable. It's less bloated than Steam, doesn't have any of the pointless social stuff or achievements, which is pleasing. They tend to highlight when their titles use Denuvo.

However, it's not true DRM free - as you have to use their launcher to install on your PC. Some games may be portable.

Linux - no idea.

I actually managed to get ahold of him from one of the various possible email addresses listed, quite curious.

Looking at the email it was Win10 and the Anniversary Updates (2016), and likely driver complications.

*sigh* oh well. Regardless, i would trust Epic Games Store a bit more than Apple, Microsoft, and Valve at this point. Albeit not by much. Other than them trying to push their store as legit with tons of free games and encouraging people to join the store by buying exclusivity (the shadiest thing so far) i haven't seen them making any real bad moves. And until they hit critical mass of taking half of the PC market, i'm not sure Valve/Steam will lift a finger to even try to improve more than they are.

Epic Games has really gotten a big boost from Fortnight. As long as they continue to get a big boost from that game, we will likely continue to see bold moves, which are mostly good from what i see. In the long run will they become a monopoly? I doubt it, there are too many people with huge libraries on Steam. But challenging them and giving better cuts to other devs may in the end result in better third party companies and in the end a better gaming community.

You can trust epic

I will take the free games they offer, but that's about it.