Epic Games Login In A Nutshell

Epic Games Login In A Nutshell
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The eternal struggle of gaming platform authentication! Steam's session tokens are like diamonds - they last forever. You can abandon your PC for months, come back, and Steam's like "welcome back old friend!"

Meanwhile, Epic Games Launcher treats your login credentials like they're written in disappearing ink. Two days away? "I've never met this man in my life." Their token expiration must be set to approximately 37 minutes. It's the digital equivalent of your grandmother forgetting who you are despite seeing you last weekend.

The security engineer who configured Epic's token timeout was clearly traumatized by a session hijacking in a previous life. Or maybe they just really enjoy watching users type their passwords over and over and over again...

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