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PC Gaming ERA | May 2019 - Romance of the Three Storefronts
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Think about this logically.
Regardless of if you are for or against supporting the Epic store if this image is true you sign up for 2 factor, something that would be free to do, in order to get a $10 credit, which you then spend on a $10 game and buy nothing else. You give $0 to Epic. They can't just give away games, so if you buy Hades they likely would have to pay $8.80 to Supergiant Games since that would be 88% of $10. Even if there is tax then technically you would give Epic at most $1 and they would still have to pay Supergiant Games so overall would be a net loss for them.
Thus, through a few steps, you don't support Epic at all, and instead support whatever company you spend the credit on.
I'm just saying, for the Epic store, against the Epic store, such an offer is merely a win for consumers, but if you want to continue to ignore the store you are totally free to do so.
First they buy exclusivity
then they buy the developers themselves
what's next, buying the custome-
then they buy the developers themselves
what's next, buying the custome-
damn it
I strongly disagree with this. Anyone using this offer will increase the amount of sales on EGS, which Epic is using to convince more devs and publisher to make exclusivity deals.
I can't stress enough that this is NOT about "using another launcher". It is about supporting Epic's shitty moneyhatting strategy that is a huge threat for the open nature of pc gaming.
So unless you want these exclusivity deals to become a permanent thing on pc, ignoring/uninstalling EGS is the best thing to do. There are plenty of other great games out there that aren't involved in exclusivity deals.
Don't accept their dirty blood money or free games. Do not support the EGS ever if you want their shitty exclusives to go away
Join https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/ instead
Join https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/ instead
People still believing Epic after every statement they did proved wrong after 1-2 weeks, lol.
It's clear those guys would do absolutely everything for money, I just hope Fortnite will disappear from the face of the earth so they can't keep ruining PC gaming as they are doing right now.
It's clear those guys would do absolutely everything for money, I just hope Fortnite will disappear from the face of the earth so they can't keep ruining PC gaming as they are doing right now.
It seems that every 2K games have the 6 months exclusive deal
More at Take-Two CEO talks full-year results: 24m copies of RDR 2 shipped, sales up by 47 per cent and the company's E3 presence
More at Take-Two CEO talks full-year results: 24m copies of RDR 2 shipped, sales up by 47 per cent and the company's E3 presence
They would still have enough money to keep buying exclusives. Question is how much money are they willing to burn if people keep rejecting their store? They must have wasted at least 100 million on exclusive deals so far. They can't be satisfied with the results. I'm sure exclusive deals will be made throughout 2019 but in 2020 we hopefully see them giving up. Unless Tim Sweeney doesn't care because he only wants to hurt Steam and doesn't care about a billion more a less on his bank account.
That would actually be the first good news I've heard about EGS since it was announced.
Epic yesterday: "We don't believe in sales events and won't make a big deal out of discounts"
Epic today: "BIG SALE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GET HYPE BOYS"
Where did they say there wouldn't ever be a sale on the Epic store?
So I saw this tweet through MetaCouncil:
So I checked EGS and Anno and Division 2 can still not be bought. But not until I checked the tweeet closer it says 11th may. That's like 3 days ago. Wut.
So I checked EGS and Anno and Division 2 can still not be bought. But not until I checked the tweeet closer it says 11th may. That's like 3 days ago. Wut.
And? Yesterday was monday and today is tuesday. The problem apparently happened on sunday.
Should have been fixed by now.
Maybe it got something to do with their completely barebones launcher.
Ion Maiden news on the horizon! GET HYPED!
I'll never forgive this game for the Pavlov Effect it has on me.
If anyone wants to gamble on Druidstone, preorders are 10% off for another 20 hours on their website. Steam key + DRM free version through Humble.
I've been spending too much on games lately, but I pulled the trigger on this last night. Tactics + Grimrock devs is too strong of a pitch for me to resist.
I've been spending too much on games lately, but I pulled the trigger on this last night. Tactics + Grimrock devs is too strong of a pitch for me to resist.
I'll never forgive this game for the Pavlov Effect it has on me.
Every time I see that game mentioned.. Iron Maiden game? Oh.
It was predominantly pretty girl titles, koi koi japan, avaris II, dungeon manager zv 1 & 2, boneless zombies and a few other bits.
I found i got the 404 from the email but not from the homepage. Plus at time of writing there is about 50 minutes left.
A whole bunch of anime porn, basically
They didn't say there wouldn't be sales, they just said they wouldn't really bring attention to it - which is still true as far as the storefront goes, you wouldn't know there's a sale going on if they didn't announce it on twitter. Source is Sergey's tweets, hard to dig them up atm since at work, provided they weren't deleted.
Look at the bright side
I'll never forgive this game for the Pavlov Effect it has on me.
At least it's not meant to be this
You need to calm down with putting blame on people btw. Rhis isnt Ruanda politics politics, its videogames. How about ill spend my hard earned money after fucking 12 hour days 6 fays a week on whatever I want? That work for you chief? Neat.
Sure, you can and should spend your money on whatever you want. But by buying moneyhatted games on EGS, you ARE supporting store exclusivity deals on pc and this WILL have consequences for the future of pc gaming. That's my only point, and if you don't care about that, fine. Other people do care tho.
If you're going to openly support a store which is proving to be nothing but a detriment to the hobby, I mean, don't expect people to cheer for you?
Signed,
man who also works for his money.
(As if this makes you immune to criticism??)
Edit: And to be clear, I'm not saying EGS support = open season to personally criticize people... but yeah, if you're part of a community and that community has largely expressed discontent at (thing) I don't understand why you'd get upset when your support of (thing) ends up being a point of contention. That doesn't make sense. You have to realize it's playing with fire.
Signed,
man who also works for his money.
(As if this makes you immune to criticism??)
Edit: And to be clear, I'm not saying EGS support = open season to personally criticize people... but yeah, if you're part of a community and that community has largely expressed discontent at (thing) I don't understand why you'd get upset when your support of (thing) ends up being a point of contention. That doesn't make sense. You have to realize it's playing with fire.
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They don't last I checked
So no buy option for me in that case since I don't use credit cards online (I use PayPal or gift credit)
I suspect they'll curate the hell out of the live audience, otherwise I expect a lot of booing.
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