I hate Epic Store as much as everyone else and if a game requires their account to play (Rocket League) then I rather not play than make an account there... but I'm confused as to what happened here. I long wanted to get this game, and now it has some sort of Epic service, but what does it mean? Does it require the EGS launcher? DOes it require having an Epic account? Nobody says any of this in between swearing and shouting....

Why the hell does it run and install epic in the background when I launch my STEAM version of the game?

for some magical reason the random crashes and desyncs are far more frequent than before

i have the game on GOG. I reinstalled two days ago and I see multiplayer is greyed out. Also, I'm on Linux, but I don't think that's relevant? how can you play mutiplayer now?

Any idea of patch notes?