I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that it's not something that can be easily fixed by having consumers throw more money at the industry. Especially in a world where wages continue to stagnate and income disparity is increasing at an alarming rate.
And another one bites the dust.... and as everyone already guessed:
Its something that Epic thinks they can fix by throwing money at it. Or at least pick the winners and losers rather than consumers.
Oh good.. I was just able to email Epic support with an apology...relax, i'm not trying to guilt-trip you
just explaining what's the most likely reason for those free games (especially since they already bragged about that exact thing at GDC)
i'm sure JaseC has more info about that saved somewhere
honestly? i don't think they give a single fuck about any of those developers (or publishers)
oh youOh good.. I was just able to email Epic support with an apology...
indeed, JaseC has been here for a long long time
he just doesn't like us very much, so he barely posts j/k, lol
I do the same thing. As soon as a pub/dev announces a deal, I go on Steam and block them. Petty? Sure, but I don't give a rat's ass.
That is a pretty broad and vague term. A developer, or indie developer, has the right to make the game they want to do, should be allowed their vision to become real and make it available to others to experience.
Hey, if an indie wants to make a game that appeals to no one, more power to them. Everyone is free to do whatever they want. Just don't come crying to me that your game doesn't sell or try justifying selling out for a bag of cash. If you want to make money, you have to make something that people want to buy. Nowhere did I knock someone for making something artistic.
Yeah, sure, and we have the right to not buy it.
This post reads as you knocking them down though.
Dunno if 'right to something' is the proper term, more like, this I believe is what goes in one's mind when they see a game that may interest them: 'Do I want this game? Does it interest me?' That kinda thing.
I'm not. If I was, I'd be blunt about it like "fuck that artsy fartsy indie game". I don't dance around and try to hide agendas in my words. I know we are used to places that do that, so no harm, no foul. My entire point, which looks like your point too (just worded differently) is don't whine about not making money or try to place blame on consumers or Steam.
/r/FuckEpic is growing pretty fast too. Most EGS announcement videos on youtube are dislike bombed as well
They dont want to admit their baseless claims are just that. I mean, in most cases, that is a healthy skepticism to have regarding web forums, as they tend to be bubbles that are disconnected from the greater whole of society. In this case, pc gamers pretty unanimously seem to dislike EGS, so PCEra was on the money from day one.
Haha, while I don't keep an active eye on the forum, I did have alerts set up for when I made my account. That setting must've reset when I deactivated my account back in April. I've ticked those boxes again.indeed, JaseC has been here for a long long time
that's good to hear
also - love the new avatar, haha
Even at my workplace when I talk to PC Gamers they're all pretty much like "Fuck Epic". One even told me how he was happy The Outer Worlds was coming to game pass so he wouldn't need to buy it on the Epic Store.
Same. Pretty much everyone I know that plays PC is openly against Epic. I think only 1 of my friends bought anything from it.
And the final nail in the coffin of the franchise (of pc games).
Piranhas games and piranha bytes are two different studios
This is actually worse than the exclusivity deal itself. I'm losing every last piece of respect for these kind of lying devs.
What people really mean when they say "I have the right to not buy" is: I don't have an obligation to buy a game.
Hilarious
that probably also extends to redeeming free games ... i have no doubt epic have a "here's all the active users we have ... all of them are your potential customers" slide in their moneyhatting presentation
Exactly. It's very clear that Epic is going all in on exclusivity deals after the success of WWZ and Satisfactory. At their current pace, they will have over a hundred exclusivity deals from some of Steams most popular devs and publishers by the time EGS is 1 year old. People still claiming that what Epic is doing is good for competition are out of their mind.
Not for the money, but for the good of the game is a new one.someone compiled the MW5 AMA info .... some quite baffling answers
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Don't forget how Epic paid everyone €10 for buying games on EGS, resulting in ridiculous low prices in many regions.
Oh that's the famous actress Saoirse Rodent, isn't her?that's good to hear
also - love the new avatar, haha
It is.
will make the games much better!
they are probably basing that shit on MWO ... which they just randomly dropped one day on steam without any marketing and like 5 years after it actually came out
Ah fair enough, they are entitled to that then.
On that final part we can agree yes.
