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Why are they so bad at this?
Also enable-secret-features = yes reveals cart coming soon maybe
Also hate that Epic rounds achievement stats to full percent. no leak of owners.
I'm wondering : what about the achievements for the games already on both stores ? And future games that will release on Steam and EGS ?
If devs wants to make the same achievements on both stores, they'll have to comply to EGS rules, otherwise it could mean each version will have its own achievements system.
It limits the achievements to 200 (200 x 5 XP min) so what about games that have more than that ? Ok, it would affect a limited amount of games, but still.
Yeah, that notification is way too big and distracting, especially with the glow around it. If it was half the size and had no glow, it might not be too bad, but they should allow folks to have the notification elsewhere on the screen (and I assume they would allow it to be shut off).
I mentioned before that Steam could dust off their achievement system. Adding global and per game settings to disable achievements entirely, notification w/ sound, notification w/o sound, no notification (though still earn in the background). Change where the notification is displayed. They could also add options to automatically take a screenshot when an achievement is unlocked. Use custom or developer achievement sounds and/or notifications (i.e. a developer could add a spooky sound for a horror game or Steam could allow the notification box to be modified in simple ways like color/font/etc.).
As far as adding an XP/award for achievements, I think it is mostly sailed ship that would be hard to retroactively add. Plus SAM exists, so it would be trivially easy for folks to just game the system. Even Epic's should be possible to circumvent if folks really want to. A lot of games have easy ways to trigger progress. It just remains the question of whether they will ban folks for it.
I mentioned before that Steam could dust off their achievement system. Adding global and per game settings to disable achievements entirely, notification w/ sound, notification w/o sound, no notification (though still earn in the background). Change where the notification is displayed. They could also add options to automatically take a screenshot when an achievement is unlocked. Use custom or developer achievement sounds and/or notifications (i.e. a developer could add a spooky sound for a horror game or Steam could allow the notification box to be modified in simple ways like color/font/etc.).
As far as adding an XP/award for achievements, I think it is mostly sailed ship that would be hard to retroactively add. Plus SAM exists, so it would be trivially easy for folks to just game the system. Even Epic's should be possible to circumvent if folks really want to. A lot of games have easy ways to trigger progress. It just remains the question of whether they will ban folks for it.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Steam started updating their achievement stuff sometime around/after the Deck launches, to correspond with Big Picture's overhaul, and possibly the Desktop overlay since that's the last major thing still in VGUI besides the settings window.
Mark my word, they now will try to use EOS like a trojan horse, for data and to gain userbase from some steam games that use EOS, in future they will mandate an EGS account
All the third party launcher to bypass EGS will be cut off in a way or another, but they will never expose themself against it, because they can't afford other bad pr on pc
Sadly you are probably right, i guess i will miss out on many games in the future, cause i will never make an epic account.
The replies are about as braindead as you'd expect
Against my better judgement I decided to read them.
And there's one argument (from the EGS defenders) that I've never understood. The "The other guy was there before". If a new competitor, in say the car industry, were to appear tomorrow and they released a car that looked and felt like it was from the 50s (and it had the features of a car from the time) nobody in their right mind would accept the argument "the other guys have been at it for longer so we're playing catch up" as a valid answer.
The Tesla Model T - pulled by a team of horses!
I wanted to reply to those people as well, but lack the twitter to do so, with basically that exact same argument. If a company comes into an established market lacking even basic features for that market, it's on them for not being prepared at launch, not a negative on established companies for having put in the work. All other launchers have been compared to what Steam was when that client launched, EGS is no different and deserves no special treatment just because their CEO is an overpromising loudmouth on social media.
Not surprising from Randy. 
I love his way of thinking:
1) I have been a licensee of Unreal engine,
2) and a retail publisher of Fortnite (???!)
3) thus I know a lot about Epic,
4) which brings to the conclusion that Steam could be "dying" in 10 years.
:lul:
Anyway, that was in 2019, and it is funny when you put it next to the achievement system which has come 2 years and a half later! Only 7 years left!
I love his way of thinking:
1) I have been a licensee of Unreal engine,
2) and a retail publisher of Fortnite (???!)
3) thus I know a lot about Epic,
4) which brings to the conclusion that Steam could be "dying" in 10 years.
:lul:
Anyway, that was in 2019, and it is funny when you put it next to the achievement system which has come 2 years and a half later! Only 7 years left!
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Another one of those threads that I should never read. It just gets worse and worse. It comes across as more a justification of there (at the time) upcoming exclusivity deals.
I find it so funny when he speaks of how trustworthy Epic is and yet the recent courtcase shows that they are quite happy to blow contracts out of the water if it suits there bottom line.
I am going to have a cup of tea and some biscuits now to help me calm down.
Not today. Not ever. Not even on the Heroic launcher.
There is nothing that Epic can slide through the bars of this cell to grease these locked gears. No tchotchke they can dangle in front of me to convince me my captors are benign. These scraps that fall from their maw as they masticate on the very sinew of a decent and just society are worth less to me than the dirt from underneath my cuticles, filthy from clawing back towards sanity and dignity.
All the while their jackal fingies swish to and fro like long stalks of corn in a Midwestern field, uncaring to the plight of the people whose very lives depend upon it.
Did they run out of money, new free stuff isn't that great
Technically they dont need money for this week freebie since the dev is owned by Epic now
The free games are certainly lower profile this year compared to 2020. Of course, it's impossible to top something like GTA 5. Here's a list of games Epic gave away in 2020 and in 2021 (so far). There have been 57 games given away this year so far while there were 75 at this point last year.
Maybe the Google trial will leak some new documents and we can see how much they're spending on exclusives and giveaways nowadays.
Has aged about as well as a porn usb drive at work
The funniest thing about this take is that over the past 3 years the stuff Valve has done with Alyx, SteamVR, Proton and Deck is more impressive than anything Epic has done with Fortnite/EGS. imo. So whatever bullshit he is talking about in terms of technology investment isn't there.
Even Unreal hasn't been all that impressive as of late. In fact the last time I played an UE game that blew me away visually was Arkham Knight 6 years ago. And that was a large + talented team at Rocksteady more than anything else.
But Epic took on the monolithic Apple and has created an entire Metaverse! Think of the implications of those two things!
Think of them!
Yeah, Steam Deck is probably gonna put Valve on the map in ways we've yet to see, if the Switch's popularity is any indication.
That's an ice-cold take, but he's transitioning out of that role.
Some rare information about the number of copies claimed for a free game. Troy Total War had 7.5 million redemptions in the first 24 hours, but that was an outlier since it was a brand new game and was only available for a day. Also I think Star Wars Battlefront had 19 million copies redeemed while Among Us had 15 million copies in a week.
Should be noted Epic owns the publishers of this game, which is probably why we got numbers for it.
Imagine breaking the TOS and still dont know why you got banned.
He knows exactly why he got banned. The just playing PR to keep being the focus of a conversation and to keep his fortnite army engaged and loyal. You can see it in the replies where anyone under the age of 15 is backing him up and everyone else is saying "Bruh".
Google countersues Epic for allegedly breaching Play Store contract
Google has filed a counter claim in its Epic lawsuit, accusing the games developer of evading its contractually agreed service fee to Google.
www.zdnet.com
Epic: There's absolutely no way that third party stores can cause security issues
Google:
Google:
Yay, more fun! I hope all these shitheads keep suing each other and airing their dirty laundry.
Dunno if this bit was noticed anywhere
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Epic finally admits that its Imposters mode was ‘inspired’ by Among Us
Nearly two months after it launched.
And it only took two months.
The sad thing is, I don't think he's joking about world domination.Dunno if this bit was noticed anywhere
Honestly, I do not think he is joking in some sense...
Everyone trying to create their METAVERSE™ are hoping they will have a captive audience of folks within an ecosystem they own, control, and profit from. Facebook, Epic, and others can spin it as something empowering content creators, providing a virtual world we can all come together and connect, and whatever other feel good explanation. Ultimately, the goals are to ensure folks spend their time and money within their world. Sure, it is not as glamourous as actual world domination, but it is far more feasible of a goal I suppose haha.
How anyone could have looked at something like Ready Player One, consider the dystopian reality of the metaverse, and still think it is a good idea to strive towards, is beyond me. Then again, I have long since realized the problem with something like Bethesda's horse armor wasn't that it was $5 dollars for cosmetic content in a single player game, it was that it was not $20 dollars, turned your horse into Epona, sold for a limited time, and able to be shown off to others. Given this, I suppose the prospect is too good for these companies to concern themselves with whether they should, rather how they should.
(BTW Ready Player One was terrible
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I'm disappointed in myself for not seeing this coming -- the Epic store catering to publishers/developers instead of end users was a glaring symptom. Can't wait to see the end result of this metaverse made for game peddlers and influencers. It's pretty dystopian, really.
Did CliffyB ever publicly discuss why he left?Dunno if this bit was noticed anywhere
Had nothing bad to say about Tim. But it's also clear he wasn't in on Epic's then new direction (yet on his comeback tried to make a gaas too, times change).
I'm actually really digging that notification bubble. Super clean.
The top sellers list updated for the first time since October 4. Far Cry 6 is #1 and AAA games like B4B and Battlefield are near the top. Honestly the most interesting thing is that the Kingdom Hearts games seemed to jump up quite a bit. I wonder if Sora being announced for Smash Bros helped boost their sales.
The most popular games list is a bit more interesting. PC Building Simulator overtook Rocket League as the most played (non-Fortnite) game on the platform. We know 4 million copies were redeemed in the first 24 hours (not the same as 4 million players though), so it must be pretty popular.
The most popular games list is a bit more interesting. PC Building Simulator overtook Rocket League as the most played (non-Fortnite) game on the platform. We know 4 million copies were redeemed in the first 24 hours (not the same as 4 million players though), so it must be pretty popular.
That's fair. If we could resize it and change it's location, that'd be cool.
