Epic Games Store - the console war comes to PC

[whydoibother]

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[fredsteel]

I begged them for a full year to revive UT4 and I get this?!

 

[abija]

Boycotting a title and/or studio, however, makes a consumer a No Sale, a different statistic that they cannot use to benefit themselves, or justify any of their actions except 'Stop Being Assholes'.

They don't give a fuck though and aren't smart enough to track that. Maybe buy and refund or smthing else. Ignoring them doesn't tell them they are assholes.

 

[Mustawd]

Pirating a game "out of spite" for a developer is like throwing a childlike tantrum that actually blows up in your face and hurts you.

It just hurts one's brain when you hear "I fucking hate this new game from developer X, so I'll just pirate it and play it 100 hours." No better way to sound like spoiled child.

You’re missing the point but ok. If I want to play a game from one of those developers I will pirate it because I don’t wanna use their shitty platforms.

Not because “I fucking hate this new game” If that were true then I wouldn’t play it. Duh.

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

 

[Turjan]

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

You can get Wing Commander 1-4 on GOG, plus a few others.

 

[Mustawd]

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

You can get Wing Commander 1-4 on GOG, plus a few others.

Oh sweet. Well, it was a bad example, but the point still remains.

 

[fredsteel]

Pirating a game "out of spite" for a developer is like throwing a childlike tantrum that actually blows up in your face and hurts you.

It just hurts one's brain when you hear "I fucking hate this new game from developer X, so I'll just pirate it and play it 100 hours." No better way to sound like spoiled child.

You’re missing the point but ok. If I want to play a game from one of those developers I will pirate it because I don’t wanna use their shitty platforms.

Not because “I fucking hate this new game” If that wete true then I wouldn’t play it. Duh.

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

Or a game that is literally on no other platform for some weird reason, like Severance: Blade of Darkness.

 

[Turjan]

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

You can get Wing Commander 1-4 on GOG, plus a few others.

Oh sweet. Well, it was a bad example, but the point still remains.

Of course, to pour salt into the wound, Wing Commander 3 had been given away for free on Origin for a long time. Decisions, decisions...

 

[J_C]

Pirating a game "out of spite" for a developer is like throwing a childlike tantrum that actually blows up in your face and hurts you.

It just hurts one's brain when you hear "I fucking hate this new game from developer X, so I'll just pirate it and play it 100 hours." No better way to sound like spoiled child.

You’re missing the point but ok. If I want to play a game from one of those developers I will pirate it because I don’t wanna use their shitty platforms.

Not because “I fucking hate this new game” If that were true then I wouldn’t play it. Duh.

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

I can understand that. My point was - as I made the example - that there are lots of tards who are being edgy about hating a game, and then being smug about they will pirate it.

 

[Mustawd]

For example, Wing Commander 3, a game I love, is sold through EA and must be played on the Origin store. Fuck that. Ima pirate it and play it on my PC free of the Origin store. If it came out on GoG or Steam I’d likely buy it. Although Steam does not have a good rep with older games.

You can get Wing Commander 1-4 on GOG, plus a few others.

Oh sweet. Well, it was a bad example, but the point still remains.

Of course, to pour salt into the wound, Wing Commander 3 had been given away for free on Origin for a long time. Decisions, decisions...

Funny enough, I did pick it up for free on Origin back in 2014. Which is why I used the example. I remember downloading Origin for the first time and thinking, “Wtf is this?? ANOTHER PLATFORM? And ONLY for EA games? No. F that”

I then deleted it straight off my PC forever. So out there I do have an Origin account with WC3 on it. But I sure as hell am not gonna install Origin to play it.

 

[DeepOcean]

Any son of a bitch that makes his game exclusive to this shit because he was bribed by Epic should fuck himself, I don't want that retarded exclusivity shit on PC gaming. It is already anti consumer to force you to buy a shit pc to play some games but I tolerate that because it is fucking Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo financing their games so they do what the fuck they want with them but fucking bribing developers to fuck consumers is a really shit move. So, if I gonna buy a multiplayer game on Steam, should I have to buy another copy on Epic shit Store too?

Fuck them. Honestly, I hope people pirate the son of a bitch of the developer that accept those bribes until his ass bleed money.

And by the way, no question asked refund police my ass if I have to fill the blanks on a huge form with all my fucking personal data on a site that could very well have some quite suspiciously half assed privacy protection from hackers.

 

[Alienman]

Satisfactory devs responds with a Q&A.

Lots of bullshitting. It all comes down to that they were payed. We already knew that of course.

(video is also gay)

OT: Why would you choose someone as off-putting as this to be your public face?

It's kinda logical when you think about it.

You would want someone like that as community manager, the one to handle the press, because... well, he is one of them. Danger hair, gay or gayish, best would be to be trans of course. The only problem is that most of your costumers don't look or act in that way, but who cares? As long as media is on your side.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

force you to buy a shit pc to play some games

what

 

[Pika-Cthulhu]

Why not just have exclusive DLC to the digital storefronts if theyre going to do this kind of retard shit, sack up and go full retard

 

[Wunderbar]

Or a game that is literally on no other platform for some weird reason, like Severance: Blade of Darkness.

it was on GOG, didn't know they removed it.

 

[Trithne]

And by the way, no question asked refund police my ass if I have to fill the blanks on a huge form with all my fucking personal data on a site that could very well have some quite suspiciously half assed privacy protection from hackers.

The site is likely owned by Tencent, never mind the hackers.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Why not just have exclusive DLC to the digital storefronts if theyre going to do this kind of retard shit, sack up and go full retard

weird how pirates never have to deal with these sorts of shenanigans

 

[abija]

force you to buy a shit pc to play some games

what

shit pc = console

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Why not just have exclusive DLC to the digital storefronts if theyre going to do this kind of retard shit, sack up and go full retard

Don't give them ideas.

 

[Turjan]

I guess 200 million Fortnite players are not enough?

 

[LESS T_T]

After seeing Epic, Discord realized them doing 70/30 was a mistake. Now they do 90/10: https://blog.discordapp.com/why-not-90-10-3761ebef4eab

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

and mysteriously, nobody gave a fuck anyway.

 

[Morgoth]

Subnautica is for free on the Epic Store. Well here's an excuse to install another installer.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Subnautica is for free on the Epic Store. Well here's an excuse to install another installer.

It wouldn't happen to be DRM-free in the Epic Store, would it?

 

[Mustawd]

Subnautica is for free on the Epic Store. Well here's an excuse to install another installer.

It wouldn't happen to be DRM-free in the Epic Store, would it?

It’s the same as Steam. Up to the developer.