Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

[cvv]

Let the children work the mines!

Better than be oppressed by global warming on the surface.

 

[Jigawatt]

Lolbertarians vs Commutards - the console war comes to economics

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Lolbertarians vs Commutards - the console war comes to economics

I'm not a libertarian.

 

[Deleted Member 22431]

Remember, guys. If you merely suggest the possibility that developers that look like this make shitty games, you will be immediately targeted as a paranoid bigot.

 

[LESS T_T]

Latest Epic exclusive: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/rollercoaster-tycoon-adventures/home



This was originally released on Switch. If anything, this got 14 point higher score than RollerCoaster Tycoon World on Metacritic (43).

 

[sullynathan]

If you know where to get your games, you are not threatened by Epic's moves if you know what I mean

 

[cvv]

Idiots gun pirate until we're all saddled with mandatory cloud gaming.

I hope ya'll were watching Google's presentation today because that's our future you dumb dildos.

 

[Ezeekiel]

If industry nuts want cloud gaming, then we'll get cloud gaming no matter whether there is piracy or not.

 

[sullynathan]

implying downloadable games will cease to exist

 

[Heretic]

Idiots gun pirate until we're all saddled with mandatory cloud gaming.

I hope ya'll were watching Google's presentation today because that's our future you dumb dildos.

So the future is either Epic's anti-customer stance, or Google's Life-as-a-service dystopia?

I will let my money do my small amount of voting against both of those directions.

 

[Solid Snail]

If industry nuts want cloud gaming, then we'll get cloud gaming no matter whether there is piracy or not.

If people don't support cloud gaming it won't be a thing.

 

[cvv]

Idiots gun pirate until we're all saddled with mandatory cloud gaming.

I hope ya'll were watching Google's presentation today because that's our future you dumb dildos.

So the future is either Epic's anti-customer stance, or Google's Life-as-a-service dystopia?

I will let my money do my small amount of voting against both of those directions.

I've always suspected us arguing about Epic is like arguing what horse carriage service is better in the early 1900s. It's been p. clear for years cloud gaming is the inevitable future. The only consolation is indie and niche games - the stuff of Codex - will take the longest to move into the virtual space, it's gonna be AAA dumbfuckery making the giant leap for mankind first. We have time but the writing is on the wall.

 

[Poseidon00]

So the future is either Epic's anti-customer stance, or Google's Life-as-a-service dystopia?

I will let my money do my small amount of voting against both of those directions.

Yup. If enough people stop letting companies abuse them then there becomes a market to service and then there becomes alternative platforms, however small they may be. But people have to stop taking it up the ass from these parasitic bastards first.

 

[ZeniBot]

So the future is either Epic's anti-customer stance, or Google's Life-as-a-service dystopia?

I will let my money do my small amount of voting against both of those directions.

Trick question. The only way to win the game is not to play.

I say fug it go the full Apogee/Romero path and just ship the fucking box to their doorstep. Best way to do it. Cut all the asshole middlemen and ding dong bannu (tencent) gatekeepers out.

 

[JBro]

Video games can go to hell if the future is Epic or Google.

 

[Alienman]

That fake download thing in the presentation is so annoying. You basically need a good connection to play streamed stuff, and if you already have a good enough connection you can download games quickly and don't have to sit and roll your thumbs for 4 hours. 500mb lines here are pretty common now, and downloading a 40 gig game from Steam only takes a couple of minutes.

 

[MuscleSpark]

Made me think.

 

[Jigawatt]

That fake download thing in the presentation is so annoying. You basically need a good connection to play streamed stuff, and if you already have a good enough connection you can download games quickly and don't have to sit and roll your thumbs for 4 hours. 500mb lines here are pretty common now, and downloading a 40 gig game from Steam only takes a couple of minutes.

Yep. My connection here is perfect for big downloads (usually get 1.1Gbits down) and terrible for multiplayer gaming (pings usually 100ms+). It's just such a US centric way of thinking, and even then probably city-centric.

 

[Solid Snail]

Outer Worlds is Epic exclusive, announcement later today probably.

 

[sullynathan]

Wow money talks

 

[Alienman]

Tweet is gone. What was it?

 

[Cross]

Tweet is gone. What was it?

 

[Alienman]

Hahaha, oh man.

 

[vortex]

For second I read Stadia exlooosive

 

[J_C]

Fuck Obsidian and Take Two. There are a handful of games which I like so much, that I would try the Epic Store for them. The Outer Worlds is not among them.