You people are nuts lol. I don't like Epic either, but if you think buying a $60 game is somehow less work than just claiming a free game, you're delusional. $60 is at least several hours worth of literally working for the vast majority of us, whereas a miniscule amount of hard drive space and a one-time affair of setting up an account is a non-issue. Especially if you use a password manager (as you should), then you don't even need to remember the password.

There are plenty of reasons to hate Epic, stop making up bad ones.

Thanks. I'll be checking these out later.

I got to step 20, where my password suddenly caught on fire and Paul died.

My day is ruined.

...what does that have anything to do with closing accounts? Accounts do not degrade.