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[ISee]

About Randy, do you guys remember this?

And inb4: It's Half-Life Alyx and not 3. Call me biased, but I'm pretty confident it is and that Valve is just superstitious about giving a game the "3".
Microsoft isn't recommending to play Halo 3 before Reach. Valve is recommending to play HL2:Episode 2 before HLA.

 

[Justice Raynes]

It's not Half Life 3. Eli Vance is still alive.

 

[Arsene]

It's not Half Life 3. Eli Vance is still alive.

Well yeah it takes place between 1 and 2. But they could easily pull some time travel shenanigans with Gman and tie it in to EP2.

They warned against playing Alyx before Episode 2 for a reason.

 

[Chudah]

Can I just say it's so nice coming to MetaCouncil and not seeing this thread lit up like a Christmas Tree all the time? I also find it hilarious that the week Valve announces a new Half Life game, the only thing Epic has to announce to contend with it is that Beyond Two Souls is releasing on PC soon. >.<

 

[lashman]

Can I just say it's so nice coming the MetaCouncil and not seeing this thread lit up like a Christmas Tree all the time?

awwww, thanks

 

[Knurek]

Can I just say it's so nice coming to MetaCouncil and not seeing this thread lit up like a Christmas Tree all the time? I also find it hilarious that the week Valve announces a new Half Life game, the only thing Epic has to announce to contend with it is that Beyond Two Souls is releasing on PC soon. >.<

If you want some flamewars, I can take one for the team, easy peasy.
BAN PUNCHER Aussie sucks, NeoGeo has no good games, dropbears should be given naltrexone and all of your favorite anime is SHIT

 

[Ascheroth]

If you want some flamewars, I can take one for the team, easy peasy.
BAN PUNCHER Aussie sucks, NeoGeo has no good games, dropbears should be given naltrexone and all of your favorite anime is SHIT

 

[ISee]

Oh no, what have you done.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Amateur hour, i can alienate half the forum with one image...

 

[Alexandros]

Sweeney was right.

 

[unknownhero]

it's just another launcher.

 

[Ge0force]

Steam needs competition

 

[ISee]

Vavle is lazy and does nothing for PC gaming.

 

[Hektor]

Stupid Sexy Sweeney

 

[Tizoc]

If you want some flamewars, I can take one for the team, easy peasy.
BAN PUNCHER Aussie sucks, NeoGeo has no good games, dropbears should be given naltrexone and all of your favorite anime is SHIT

Scurb that is NOTHING
Here is a super nova of a hot take
Super Mario 64 is overrated

Spoiler

 

[Ruvon]

Super Mario 64 is overrated

That statement is right. I don't see the point.

 

[ISee]

Super Mario 64 is overrated

What's the hot take? Quake came out that year.

 

[Eferis]

I just bought all those sweet games on sale on the Epic Store and I'm playing them all the same time right now while you wait and wait and wait as the Steam fanboys you all are! AH! Losers!

Thank you Tim! Love you Tim!

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Every game should be an MMO or multiplayer. No more single player games!

 

[Knurek]

Every game should be an MMO or multiplayer. No more single player games!

Hell, let's go further.
Monthly subs for all games.

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Hell, let's go further.
Monthly subs for all games.

Monthly subs + Online Passes + Season Passes + Microtransactions + Battle Passes in all games. Imagine the beauty of it.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Valve are Creatively Bankrupt!

 

[texhnolyze]

So we're at the last week of November. If I remember correctly, EGS was "announced" on the first week of December, right? It's almost its "first" birthday. We all know that it's not actually 1 year old, but let's just agree with all those supporters for now since they always deflect EGS criticisms with "It's still a brand new store!".

Now the question is, what has Epic done to improve the store (and launcher) all this time? I remember a few, like a refund system, cloud save, and some improvement to the storefront and game pages.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

One improvement to the EGS experience was that they took down the timeline so you could shop without worrying about the EGS Developer crunching to add missing features.

Actual picture of the EGS Developer at Crunch Time...

 

[MJunioR]

Don't think it's possible to further improve EGS, it's just too good

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Minimalism is a design philosophy and requires discipline. Anyone can just add features to their store until it's bloated and "consumer-friendly" but it takes real will-power to resist and keep things simple and bare-bones.

Valve just don't have the strength of character for that life.

 

[beep boop]

Why buy on Epic over Steam? 1. I want to grow my library there, 2. I don't care about any of Steam's "features" and 3. I want to support devs and my favorite Content Creators.

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

texhnolyze Here's a Trello i found of the EGS Roadmap, i think it's legit?

EGS Roadmap on Trello

 

[Arsene]

texhnolyze Here's a Trello i found of the EGS Roadmap, i think it's legit?

EGS Roadmap on Trello

I think they meant Epic took down the timeframes. Every feature had a target release month but they were never able to hit their dates and got tired of people making fun of them for it so they got rid of them lol

 

[Swenhir]

Minimalism is a design philosophy and requires discipline. Anyone can just add features to their store until it's bloated and "consumer-friendly" but it takes real will-power to resist and keep things simple and bare-bones.

Valve just don't have the strength of character for that life.

You are actually good at this.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Now the question is, what has Epic done to improve the store (and launcher) all this time?

Given a bunch of people free games.
This has been Super Effective! on people who don't actually own a gaming capable PC but have a Gotta Catch 'Em All mentality and now a library of 20 or so titles that they might maybe look at sometime in the future.

A.K.A. The Origin Ploy

 

[Stone Ocean]

Now the question is, what has Epic done to improve the store (and launcher) all this time? I remember a few, like a refund system, cloud save, and some improvement to the storefront and game pages.

1) Fixed their utter shit refund system - it had stupid restrictions like 2 refunds per year. Now has the same requirements as Steam, still a manual system that needs to go through their support.
2) Regional pricing support, adding more currencies and countries. To their credit they support some regions that Steam doesn't.
3) A search bar. lol
4) Cloud saves, but considering their cloud save FAQ still has the notice about Borderlands 3 erasing people's data, lol.
5) An actual storefront layout with categories instead of a vomit of game plates.

Clearly a very busy year.

 

[ISee]

You are all too harsh.

The biggest achievement was to convince the press that consumers should care about the income of stock market companies over their own interests.
The second biggest achievement was to make people cautious towards funding campaigns.
The third biggest achievement was to discount games before they were even available to download. Giving everybody who pre ordered at full price a very good feeling inside.
The fourth biggest achievement was being toxic towards critics and gamers. Further improving the mistrust between developers and consumers.
The fifth biggest achievement was to change the meaning of indy development. Once it meant being independent from publishers and doing your own stuff. Now it means being independent from consumer and selling your game to store fronts instead.

And you all are like epic didn't have a busy year. When in truth they were very good at making this industry worse.

 

[Ge0force]

What Epic did in the past 12 months:

- introduced moneyhatting 3rd party games to pc gaming

- pissed off a significant part of the pc gaming community

- severely damage the relationship between developers and gamers

- nearly killed crowdfunding for games by moneyhatting games funded by backers

- devaluated indie games by giving away dozens of indie games for free

- turned streamers into paid shills

- turned some excellent games into a flop

- raised the price of games by boycotting 3rd party keystores

- somehow caused several devs to act like jerks

Well done Epic!

Edit: my apologies for my negativity; in real life I'm actually a very optimistic guy ^^

 

[Joe Spangle]

What the hell is happening?

 

[fantomena]

Outer Worlds, Blands 3 and Ancestors has gone one deep sale 33-40% (between EGS, Humble and GMG) quicker that I thought.

 

[Tizoc]

3 weeks til TEGSA.
Is it wrong if I feel bummed out at the lack of EGScloosees announcments?

 

[lashman]

Outer Worlds, Blands 3 and Ancestors has gone one deep sale 33-40% (between EGS, Humble and GMG) quicker that I thought.

... and they'll still launch at full price on steam

3 weeks til TEGSA.
Is it wrong if I feel bummed out at the lack of EGScloosees announcments?

they're saving all of them for the show

 

[Knurek]

... and they'll still launch at full price on steam

And they will sell like shit, like the shit games they are.
(Well, maybe not Outer Worlds).

 

[Arsene]

3 weeks til TEGSA.
Is it wrong if I feel bummed out at the lack of EGScloosees announcments?

Also less than 3 weeks until the first 4 EGS exclusivity deals end.

We’re almost there boys

 

[Cordelia]

Also less than 3 weeks until the first 4 EGS exclusivity deals end.

We’re almost there boys

Don't worry it'll be available as weekly free games.

 

[lashman]

Don't worry it'll be available as weekly free games.

i bet at least one of them will be ... either that or in a humble bundle (egs key, of course)

 

[Stone Ocean]

Outer Worlds, Blands 3 and Ancestors has gone one deep sale 33-40% (between EGS, Humble and GMG) quicker that I thought.

Is the 20% on RDR2 a launch discount or something?

 

[lashman]

Is the 20% on RDR2 a launch discount or something?

nope

 

[Nahkapukki]

Commodore > Atari

There... That's it. The most controversial talking point in the history of gaming.

Also EGS.

 

[Ge0force]

Outer Worlds, Blands 3 and Ancestors has gone one deep sale 33-40% (between EGS, Humble and GMG) quicker that I thought.

It seems Sweeney was right when he said EGS will make games cheaper

 

[Cordelia]

People on my communities just realized that Heavy Rains in on PC because it got cracked. They were confused because they never heard it come to PC and they can't find it on Steam.

Nice visibility there.

 

[Ge0force]

It's remarkable how many Epic-shilling articles have been published on non-gaming related tech sites in the past few weeks. Example here. Most of it seems to be written by Epic's PR department:

For the expert gamers, Epic Games Store is not a new name. However, for the newbies in video games and the likes, this is a curated electronic storefront for Mac and PC, designed with both the developers and players in mind. It is focused on offering exciting games for gamers and a reasonable deal for the developers. When you purchase a game on this store, about 88% of the price directly goes to the developers, whereas on many other stores, only 70% goes to the game developers.

Aside from the Black Friday Deals, upcoming updates from the developers, features, and more offerings await the gaming world for both the new and old players. More so, exclusives are also part of this successful platform's growth for both the games and other digital entertainment forms, such as music and video streaming. And, even if Black Friday ends, the Epic Games Store continues to offer its gamers' exciting treats, such as the free new game made available every week throughout the year. And, when a player claims a free game, it is his to keep even if that particular game is not available anymore for the new customers to claim for free.

 

[C-Dub]

At least make Epic pay for articles written like that. Jesus.

 

[beep boop]

Someone must’ve forgotten to tag it #ad. Gross. This is exactly what I was talking about with these writers just literally parroting press release talking points.

Also lol at this bit:

a curated electronic storefront for Mac and PC, designed with both the developers and players in mind

Nothing in that store is designed with players in mind. Not even the handouts. It’s just a play to get you into the ecosystem, contribute to their monthly numbers, and soften you up for a purchase.