I have none. I made an account to siphon the free games and then couldn't be bothered.
I even ended up buying Subnautica Below Zero on Steam instead.
I even ended up buying Subnautica Below Zero on Steam instead.
I have none. I made an account to siphon the free games and then couldn't be bothered.
I even ended up buying Subnautica Below Zero on Steam instead.
Fuck these devs. They couldn't have more contempt for their audience if they tried. I never say this as I don't tend to get hard feelings towards people wanting to make an honest living, but I truly hope this game fails hard.![]()
"You’ll have to Install EGS if you wanna buy Ooblets on PC. I know that’s asking a lot but I believe in you and your ability to download a free thing and create a user account "
"Epic paying for PC exclusives has become the latest thing Gamers™ have gotten angry about "
"Just imagine if other companies got it in their head to offer funding in exchange for exclusives. What’d be next? Game consoles paying for games to be exclusive on their consoles? Netflix paying for exclusive shows? Newspapers paying for exclusive articles? It’d be some sort of late capitalist dystopia "
There's a lot more hot takes inside.
Looks like Ooblets signed with Epic.
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"You’ll have to Install EGS if you wanna buy Ooblets on PC. I know that’s asking a lot but I believe in you and your ability to download a free thing and create a user account "
"Epic paying for PC exclusives has become the latest thing Gamers™ have gotten angry about "
"Just imagine if other companies got it in their head to offer funding in exchange for exclusives. What’d be next? Game consoles paying for games to be exclusive on their consoles? Netflix paying for exclusive shows? Newspapers paying for exclusive articles? It’d be some sort of late capitalist dystopia "
There's a lot more hot takes inside.
Not only did they have a Patreon, they dropped their publisher (Double Fine) just two months ago. No word on if that’s because of the Microsoft acquisition, but they were taking both publisher money and Patreon money and they still needed an EGS deal?Also remember they had a patreon:
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Get more from Rebecca Cordingley on Patreon
creating Ooblets, a game about creatures and farmingwww.patreon.com
Your “let’s all be fwiends uwu” tone doesn’t make your statement any less aggressive.
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"You’ll have to Install EGS if you wanna buy Ooblets on PC. I know that’s asking a lot but I believe in you and your ability to download a free thing and create a user account "
"Epic paying for PC exclusives has become the latest thing Gamers™ have gotten angry about "
"Just imagine if other companies got it in their head to offer funding in exchange for exclusives. What’d be next? Game consoles paying for games to be exclusive on their consoles? Netflix paying for exclusive shows? Newspapers paying for exclusive articles? It’d be some sort of late capitalist dystopia "
There's a lot more hot takes inside.
So I also did the thing. De-wishlisted, ignored, and never will buy a game from them![]()
"You’ll have to Install EGS if you wanna buy Ooblets on PC. I know that’s asking a lot but I believe in you and your ability to download a free thing and create a user account "
"Epic paying for PC exclusives has become the latest thing Gamers™ have gotten angry about "
"Just imagine if other companies got it in their head to offer funding in exchange for exclusives. What’d be next? Game consoles paying for games to be exclusive on their consoles? Netflix paying for exclusive shows? Newspapers paying for exclusive articles? It’d be some sort of late capitalist dystopia "
There's a lot more hot takes inside.
At least they're saying they did it for the money rather than go all high and mighty like Rebel Galaxy devs.
Also it's wrong to say "this way the game can't fail". If the money's just from Epic and the game isn't sold to actual gamers on top then that's still a failure.
It won't make them pack up and go home but they'll still need to figure out what they did wrong.
That game is so going to be free 1 month after it gets released lolwell, I hope they enjoy failure lol.
... in a very spectacular way too:
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Yeah, it's kind of strange.
Imagine Coca cola telling their costumers to shut up and stop complaining about high sugar levels because world peace is more important.
While half of twitter and the media tells you that you have to think about the sugar industry. It's also coca colas right to put as much sugar into their products as they want to.
But in the gaming industry it is okay for a company providing a product for a certain hobby to tell its clients to shut up about the hobby.
Its funny that you metion coca-cola, because they are what they are now, because they reacted preety good and fast after the new coke backlash.
Its funny that you metion coca-cola, because they are what they are now, because they reacted preety good and fast after the new coke backlash.
Slavoj Zizek has a great rant where he talks about how modern tyranny is worse than classic tyranny because at least the old kind of authoritarianism was a direct order you could object to, but now the new strategy is to make you look like an asshole for objecting. Like a boss who acts like he’s your friend so he can express disappointment when you call in sick, or a relative telling you you don’t have to go to a family meetup but then getting mad when you say you won’t.Passive aggression pisses me off more than just regular old traditional aggression.
... in a very spectacular way too:
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So we had a big decision to make, and we didn’t take it lightly.
Because Epic doesn’t yet have the same market share as their competitors, they offered us a minimum guarantee on sales that would match what we’d be wanting to earn if we were just selling Ooblets across all the stores. That takes a huge burden of uncertainty off of us because now we know that no matter what, the game won’t fail and we won’t be forced to move back in with our parents (but we do love and appreciate you, parents!).
Now we can just focus on making the game without worrying about keeping the lights on. The upfront money they’re providing means we’ll be able to afford more help and resources to start ramping up production and doing some cooler things.
They're totally right! In the grand scheme of things, this is a totally inconsequential little thing, so I'll just treat it as that and ignore it, forget about it and buy something else instead ¯\(ツ)/¯So let’s remember that this is all low-stakes video game stuff we’re dealing with here. Nothing to get worked up about.
Let's just say it's the sort of post that the most extreme, shit stirring, console playing EGS stans would be proud of. Unbelievably tone deaf.I think this is one of the worst dev statements I've ever read when it comes to justifying EGS moneyhats. Reads like a typical pro-EGS forum/social media post.
Someone please do the same for me so that I can take the money I was going to spend on the game and instead donate it to Extinction Rebellion, because as the devs said, climate change is more important than video games.Someone please @ me when they announce the price for the game.
What is it with some of these devs and their delusions of grandeur? Like, who the fuck even are you to assume you can talk down like this to your potential customers? Not that there should be any point in a dev's career where it would be acceptable for them to treat their audience with such disdain. It seems like some of them just can't wait to show their - shitty - true colors the second they get paidThey doubled down on Discord and started saying “entitled gamers are not our target audience” and “anyone who says our post was rude or condescending weren’t going to buy the game anyway”
Like yikes way to alienate your fanbase. I guess wanting to buy a game in my native currency is too much entitlement for them to handle and apparently my original plans to buy the game day 1 were just a big lie. Thank you devs!
They doubled down on Discord and started saying “entitled gamers are not our target audience” and “anyone who says our post was rude or condescending weren’t going to buy the game anyway”