The Epic Games Launcher is an Epic Games storefront, digital games distribution, communication and multiplayer platform made by Epic Games. It’s focused on providing great games for gamers, and a fair deal for game developers. This is what i'm experiencing after the new updated Epic Games Launcher. It constantly opens and closes and its very stupid. If anyone has a fix let me know. The Epic Games Launcher will begin downloading Fortnite. Wait for the “Initializing” process to complete. When the text “Installing” appears, click the “X” under Fortnite to cancel the download. Close the Epic Games Launcher window by clicking the “X” at the top right corner of the window to continue.

Why the Epic Store?

Our goal is to bring you great games, and to give game developers a better deal: they receive 88% of the money you spend, versus only 70% elsewhere. This helps developers succeed and make more of the games you love.

The first games on the store are Hades by Supergiant Games, Ashen by Annapurna/A44, and Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek by tinyBuild, and they’re available now!

Hades is the rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion and Transistor. It is available in early access, with updates to come every month until full release later in 2019.

Ashen is an action RPG about a wanderer in search of a home. You can forge relationships in the game, inviting other players to join your camp - they might just help you succeed.

Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek is the prequel to Hello Neighbor, the stealth horror hit. Find out what happened right before the events of the main game.

The store will also feature one free game every two weeks throughout 2019. Epic is funding these free releases so you always have something new to come and check out. The first free game will be Subnautica, available from Dec 14th to Dec 27th, followed by Super Meat Boy from Dec 28th to Jan 10th.

The Epic Games store will be growing throughout 2019 and beyond, as it opens up more widely to other games.

What's New:

For those who love something for nothing, the excellent Subnautica and Super Meat Boy will be available gratis for a limited time. Normally priced at $25, alien ocean survival adventure Subnautica can be grabbed for $0 from December 14 to December 27. Classic indie platformer Super Meat Boy, meanwhile, is free from December 28 to January 10.

Epic’s own Fortnite and Unreal Tournament are also free on the store, and the company promises a new free game will be on offer every two weeks.

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Football Manager made its debut on the Epic Games store with FM20 as of September 17th. Until September 24th, FM2020 is free to get and keep there forever. This free week has resulted in amazing numbers of users getting the game on Epic; more than 500,000 already.
This is a curated list of the most common questions I've seen around the FM community. With their answers of course. I'm hoping this will help you get a clearer picture of how the game is like on Epic, and what's different compared to the Steam version.

How does FM20 work on Epic?

You can install games the same way you do on Steam. Once you get FM20, it will be added in your library. From there you can install the game and open it once ready.
The actual game should look and be the same on either platform (same version even).
However, there's a number of known issues which will hopefully be addressed in the future.

How do you install FM20 addons on Epic? Does Epic have the same folder setup as Steam?

In terms of the User Data folder, it's exactly the same as Steam. So if you have a custom skin, a custom database or some tactics already stored in your User Data for FM20 on Steam, FM20 on Epic will find them too. There are some problems importing some of them though at this point (e.g. training schedules).
For certain mods that require fiddling with Steam's installation folder path, the equivalent path for Epic is by default at:
C:Program FilesEpic GamesFootballManager2020data

Is there a pre-game editor on Epic Games store? The free editor we can get from Steam tools library.

Unfortunately there's currently no pre-game editor available for FM20 on Epic. It seems that the pre-game editor is a Steam exclusive.

What about the paid in-game editor? Is that available on Epic?

It's available, but not universally. For example, Mac users can't use it. So if somehow you're a Mac user and purchased the in-game editor, you should request a refund by using the 'Contact Us' button found at the bottom of this page.

Can we really play a network game of FM20 on Epic versus Steam users?

In theory, that's the key feature SI advertised. The reality is the network game experience in general varies from flawed to impossible. That situation appears to be worse for Mac users.
For example, I keep getting this error message when clicking the 'Join Online Game' option: 'A network connection required in order to play Football manager online.Please ensure that you are connected to the internet and that epic is online before'. And I'm on Windows.
Hopefully this aspect of the game will be sorted with a hotfix soon.

Can you change the data folder location of FM20 on Epic? On Steam I could use this: --user_data_location='path'

No, this option is not available.

Is there any benefit in having Football Manager on Epic that would justify switching to it from Steam?

Not really. If you're happy with Steam, stick to it.

Where is FM Touch 2020? I can't find it on the Epic store.

There's no FM Touch 2020. It's just FM20 available on Epic.

Why did SI release FM on Epic anyway? Steam was fine and there's also Game Pass.

My guess would be that Epic charges lower fees compared to Steam, so this is mainly a business decision. It also means they can attract new users who prefer Epic to Steam.

Will FM21 be only on Epic?

No. FM21 will be released on multiple platforms, including Steam and Epic. There's no exclusivity involved.