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PC Gaming Era | March 2019 - The Ides of Smarch
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Most likely the discussion about Tencant and distrust of Chinese companies, or more likely some fucko leaving a comment somewhere on reddit or elsewhere about this.
Disappointed by RPS. But, this is the kind of thing that drew me to RPS in the first place, blistering hot takes, so its to be expected.
Well, RPS and Eurogamer were the only two gaming-related outlets I was able to read without getting annoyed as hell because they looked like the closest thing to actual journalism but apparently they can't be trusted with hot takes no different from those you can read from your average poster on your average message board. Alright.
It does seem pretty dire out there for PC focused gaming websites. I've just been getting my PC news from this thread. Haha.
Im alright in cockpit based games. Played a load of Elite Dangerous in VR (which is feking brilliant) without issues. It just seems to be a few types of games that give me issues and this is one of them. Ill try playing around with the snap turning settings.
Any investigative work done by the non-journalist audience, that has ramifications beyond...say...finding a glitch in a looter shooter, will be met with much harsher scrutiny and upturned noses by outlets. This is just one more negative side effect of GamerGate; any audience dogpiling or "bitch eating crackers" on something will be met with pushback.
It's depressing with RPS and PC Gamer, because if there's really no issue with Epic doing what they're doing then a reasoned, in-depth article - with interviews and requests to comment from Sweeney/Galyonkin/Epic and Valve/Gabe/whoever - would put the whole thing to bed, done-and-dusted. What both sites have instead done is push a specific line without deigning to consider that there may actually be a problem. By dismissing the issue out of hand, it just makes it look like there's something to hide.
Gamergate did a number on the video gaming public and its relation with the Video gaming media. I don't blame the media for distancing themselves and taking the stance that often the gaming public needs to take a breath and step back from the mob. We've got work to do and I don't mind the games media calling us out every now and then.
I'm not even against RPS take, as we all have spy devices in our pockets. Its the world. However, I'm not really interested in downplaying someone's concern/anger over this. I don't know what steps people take to secure their private information and how controlling it matters to them and I'm not going to finger wag and they them they're overacting. Also, many others have pointed out how Epics explanation of the feature doesn't match up with the data and local file information collected and perhaps sent back to Epic.
What frustrates me more about the recent RPS articles is that even when Steam offers a new feature, its because of Epic games. When Epic Games gives a dev a bag of money, they stop short of calling a spade a spade. I thought they were more of a actual investigative outlet, when it seems like now they're more a place for offering opinions on just games themselves and the gaming landscape in broad strokes and relaying press releases. In 2008 they were openly critical of major gaming companies when they gave us the PR spin and now Epic Games is getting the kid gloves treatment.
Well, these sites and the people writing these articles have made their position very clear. They chose to side with the corporation instead of the customers. Good to know.
I deleted my Epic Account right after the Metro Exodus deal and just received an email about Division 2 what
I also got an email.
I just realized that I have an epic games account bc I sample fortnite on my PS4.
Huh. I already uninstalled fornite bc i'm not interested in it. I replaced it with Apex like weeks ago lol.
Maybe time to delete account?
I received an email from Epic too earlier today for The Division 2. And you know what? The email is such a low effort. There's only Epic logo, the game's banner, and a paragraph of copy. It's the simplest template of all.
Anyway, it's the 2nd email after the confirmation email. I never opted in for newsletter, and there's literally no way for us to choose to opt in. Clicking the unsubscribe button in the email redirect me to a newsletter managing page, which can't be accessed from anywhere in the website. Unless if I'm missing something.
Where's the "Unsubscribe All" button, by the way?
Anyway, it's the 2nd email after the confirmation email. I never opted in for newsletter, and there's literally no way for us to choose to opt in. Clicking the unsubscribe button in the email redirect me to a newsletter managing page, which can't be accessed from anywhere in the website. Unless if I'm missing something.
Where's the "Unsubscribe All" button, by the way?
If anything, I have faith on the PC community. People at large will continue ignoring the Epic Store and Epic will continue burning it's money until they give up, even if take some years. It worked with Microsoft.
About the email. It happened before with the latest season of Fortnite 8 when some people here commented how they just got that email despite not being subscribed to that newsletter.
Taking into account the evolution of the store, my main guess is they consolidated all the newsletters from the launcher, which means: UE4, Fortnite and EGS.
Taking into account the evolution of the store, my main guess is they consolidated all the newsletters from the launcher, which means: UE4, Fortnite and EGS.
I never even got a confirmation email from Epic. I only got a copy of the ToS when I installed the launcher and the Division 2 email this morning.
I got the email this morning, it was a terrific reminder that i had an Epic account that needed closing.
I hope so but I'm not confident about it. The majority of gaming audience is quite different now, they don't care about anything (lootboxes, broken games, shady practices, gaming media bullshit...) I wish Epic crash and burn if they keep acting like assholes, the younger/broader audience though... I'm not sure.
It remains 50/50 on whether Epic Games Store will be a major success in 10 years. It hasn't started well but Epic has endless pockets.
I didn't get Division 2 email for example but i did get Battle Pass one for Season 8.
Yeah it's a great game! Had dozens of hours fun with it already, and I have yet to play the DLC.
Honestly, I have suddenly come around on this whole Epic thing. They simply want us all to accept games, no matter where they happen to be. As long as they are part of the games collective. We shouldn't offer futile resistance. It doesn't matter how many launchers you have, you have to accept them all as no traces of individuality should exist. Epic means well, Epic is for the good of as all.
It's like a TOOL album?
I heard a LOT of good things about Halo Reach and Firefight mode. Let's hope people play it so there is a healthy community. It seems like something i'd be interested in.
I think the game is gonna be insanely popular at release, so there should be a healthy community.
Check it's actually deleted.
Also try and do a password reset. No email verification means someone else can set up a new account for you without you ever knowing.
Sure is.
It was my #3 last year behind Star Traders: Frontiers and Subnautica.
I also got this email, after closing my account a month or so ago.
Maybe this is also thread worthy. If you delete your account, I think most people would expect to be removed from mailing lists.
Maybe this is also thread worthy. If you delete your account, I think most people would expect to be removed from mailing lists.
The first Devolver game has been removed from Steam:
https://steamdb.info/app/906100/history/
906100 App was deleted, previous name: Observation
last update from 5th March, now deleted. You know what that means.
https://steamdb.info/app/906100/history/
906100 App was deleted, previous name: Observation
last update from 5th March, now deleted. You know what that means.
We are proud to announce that we just obtained another exclusive for our amazing Epic Games Store Library.
This is more likely to be Amazon/Twitch exclusive, if the rumors are true.
Yeah, Amazon has been leaning pretty hard into Devolver. I'm most worried about Serious Sam 4 becoming a victim to this.
I love how they call exclusives "scloosies", because infantilizing language is a top tier argument. Along with "everything wot I don't like is racism!" I'd almost think this was a parody, but I doubt they're that self-aware.
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