Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

[V_K]

Still no shopping cart, I see.

 

[Perkel]

Still no shopping cart, I see.

How to know someone is retarded ?
He asks for shopping cart while buying digital goods.

 

[the_shadow]

Geez guys, it's always a bad thing for consumers when new competition emerges to challenge a business that has cornered a big piece of the market, that's exactly what capitalism tries to prevent.

I'm not sure where all this loyalty to one particular digital platform is coming from, do gamers really hate game developers so much they would shoot themselves in the foot by staying 'loyal' to a digital platform that they have whined about endlessly in the past when it's at risk of losing market share? Bunch of crybabies.

 

[Reinhardt]

do gamers really hate game developers

Well, game developers hate gamers why it's not allowed to hate them in return?

 

[lefthandblack]

Still no shopping cart, I see.

How to know someone is retarded ?
He asks for shopping cart while buying digital goods.

So instead of one transaction to buy three games, you prefer three transactions to buy three games. You must like entering your credit card number as much as Jamal likes entering your wife.

 

[the_shadow]

do gamers really hate game developers

Well, game developers hate gamers why it's not allowed to hate them in return?

Quoting a fragment of my sentence and then replying to it is a good way of taking people out of context. If you want to hate game developers, fine. My point is that it's pretty silly to hate them so much that you'd cut off your nose to spite your face by remaining loyal to a distribution platform that gamers have complained about endlessly in the past.

As for game developers hating gamers, LOL. The problem is that many of them are far too accommodating to troublemakers and whiners. If I were a game developer, I would:

- Never discount my game, except as an introductory sale when it's first released, and when it's been on the market so long it's a dinosaur. Want my game? Scrape together the money by buying a few less Starbucks coffees instead of trying to snatch it on a cyclical sale. All the discounting on digital platforms has essentially devalued games. Why would I buy a game for $60 when I know I can get it for $30 in 2 weeks, and how good can a $5 game be?

- Push for legislation that allows governments to confiscate the PCs/consoles of unrepentant software pirates, and have them crushed into tiny cubes, which the pirate would then have to pay to dispose. We do that to hoons who drive recklessly in Australia, and its sickening that people gloat about pirating the intellectual property of hard working individuals. If you think a game's not worth paying for, then don't buy it, or make your own. It's not an essential item like food or health care, it's a luxury item that not even Bernie Sanders would attempt to ensure is universally distributed.

- I'd ensure that on any platform I sold my game, I'd be able to get rid of bullshit negative reviews. Valid negative reviews about the game are welcome, but whining about sales practices or drama queen antics demanding an apology from the company to every gamer get shit canned. Americans tend to hold the view that 'Freedom of Speech' means they get to say or post whatever they want, whenever they want. No, sorry, you don't, you self-important entitled children. If you've got an axe to grind, go get your own free web site and whinge there.

- I'd include a comprehensive manual with my game, and when the game starts, the player would have a pop-quiz on what's in the manual. If they fail, they can't continue playing the game. This would help cut down on all the whinging about a game not having a particular feature or mechanic, when it is clearly spelled out in the manual.

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Shit too idiotic to repeat.

Exact type of retard that the EGS appeals to.

 

[the_shadow]

Shit too idiotic to repeat.

Exact type of retard that the EGS appeals to.

Then continue buying games on STEAM if you don't like the EGS, problem solved. Although people complain about STEAM as well, and even GoG. Then they'll complain when there is a new alternative like EGS. Consumers like this have an extreme case of cognitive dissonance and are never happy.

 

[Perkel]

So instead of one transaction to buy three games, you prefer three transactions to buy three games. You must like entering your credit card number as much as Jamal likes entering your wife.

I am not retarded to buy multiple games for them to lie down in library not played.
Secondly almost every clinet out there support one click buy (or with ccv code) so that is not an issue to begin with.
Third even if you have to input all cc details for every game this still is about minute or two which is nothing.

 

[the_shadow]

Still no shopping cart, I see.

How to know someone is retarded ?
He asks for shopping cart while buying digital goods.

So instead of one transaction to buy three games, you prefer three transactions to buy three games.

Such a hard life. Don't worry, I'm sure they will bring a cart feature in eventually and eliminate another of your one-percenter problems.

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Then continue buying games on STEAM if you don't like the EGS, problem solved. Although people complain about STEAM as well, and even GoG. Then they'll complain when there is a new alternative like EGS. Consumers like this have an extreme case of cognitive dissonance and are never happy.

Those evil consumers, curse them! Protect us from those horrible consumers Lord Sweeney!

 

[Reinhardt]

you'd cut off your nose to spite your face by remaining loyal to a distribution platform that gamers have complained about endlessly in the past.

Nigga, boycotting epic costs me nothing. They still have zero games i care enough to even pirate.

And i don't even need shopping cart for this!

 

[lefthandblack]

I am not retarded to buy multiple games for them to lie down in library not played.

So you don't take advantage of sales then? You must be one of those guys who insists on buying games at full price to sUpOrt teH DeVelaPaRs!

Secondly almost every clinet out there support one click buy (or with ccv code) so that is not an issue to begin with.

Yeah, just store that shit on their servers. What could possibly go wrong?

Third even if you have to input all cc details for every game this still is about minute or two which is nothing.

Yeah, except for triggering the CC fraud algorithim which just got more retarded thanks to eurofaggotry.

 

[lefthandblack]

Such a hard life. Don't worry, I'm sure they will bring a cart feature in eventually and eliminate another of your one-percenter problems.

Another one who discounts sales (heh). Thanks for acknowledging one of your betters though, that's rare these days.
I don't even use epic and never will so it doesn't affect me, I just have trouble ignoring retardation.

Maybe I should have been a Mental Health Professional?

 

[the_shadow]

Such a hard life. Don't worry, I'm sure they will bring a cart feature in eventually and eliminate another of your one-percenter problems.

Another one who discounts sales (heh).

Nope, I just don't make mountains out of molehills. If needing to enter your credit card details a few extra times is enough to turn you off a a digital platform, even when they have heavily discounted products, then you really are a snowflake.

 

[Wyatt_Derp]

Chinese product blatantly copying the design of an American product

I wonder how many fat-pocket westerners would support it if it was released only in its NATIVE language.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

The remaster of Ghostbusters (2009) is Epic exclusive and out today; unfortunately the Steam version was removed a couple of years ago. Generally considered to be the actual Ghostbusters 3, as it had all the cast and was actually pretty well written, with script doctoring by Ackroyd and Ramis.

Also out on Xbone, PS4, and Switch.

 

[J_C]

The remaster of Ghostbusters (2009) is Epic exclusive and out today; unfortunately the Steam version was removed a couple of years ago. Generally considered to be the actual Ghostbusters 3, as it had all the cast and was actually pretty well written, with script doctoring by Ackroyd and Ramis.

Also out on Xbone, PS4, and Switch.

Thankfully I bought it earlier on Steam.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I bought it retail, and it comes with a nasty bug in the installer so that you have to install it manually from the disc.

A remaster of the game is nice, but not any reason for me to sign up for EGS.

 

[DalekFlay]

The remaster of Ghostbusters (2009) is Epic exclusive and out today; unfortunately the Steam version was removed a couple of years ago. Generally considered to be the actual Ghostbusters 3, as it had all the cast and was actually pretty well written, with script doctoring by Ackroyd and Ramis.

I own the Steam version so we'll see how much the remaster improves. I remember hating the KBM controls in that game, which really turned me off it in general. If I recall correctly the aiming felt like utter dogshit with a mouse with no way to fix it.

 

[Jenkem]

RDR2 will be a one month epic exclusive before coming to steam. it will be available on rockstar launcher the same time as epic

first they had 1 year exclusives, then with blands 3 they moved to 6 months. now they are at 1 month. decline = incline

 

[Drakron]

RDR2 will be a one month epic exclusive before coming to steam. it will be available on rockstar launcher the same time as epic

first they had 1 year exclusives, then with blands 3 they moved to 6 months. now they are at 1 month. decline = incline

I am sure its more about Red Dead Online that anything else really, EGS doesnt have the amount of people that would buy Gold Bars since thats were RDR2 is really making money from, just like GTAV with Shark Cards.
I am only surprised they are even giving some exclusivity to EGS, question is Humble and GMG will be EGS or Rockstar Shitty Club keys? Either way thanks to Epic we now have the streaming wars on PC gaming ... maybe Steam will follow the path of Netflix but Epic will follow then close behind ...

 

[Jenkem]

they will be rockstar keys for sure. 3rd party sites sold rockstar keys for gtav, much like cdpr 3rd party keys are always gog.

 

[LESS T_T]

I'd imagine one month of half-exclusivity on RDR 2 would be much more expensive than 6 months of exclusivity on Borderlands 3.

 

[DalekFlay]

It'll likely force the Rockstar launcher wherever you buy it, so might as well buy it directly from them.