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pivot_root, do games w GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

I guess, yeah. I will say, though: it feels morally wrong to acknowledge their existence as anything other than a anti-consumer cashgrab, and thus give them legitimacy as a competitor to Steam, GOG, and Itch.

pivot_root, do games w GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

I’m not sure which part of that guys comment suggests anything other other than “fuck epic,” but here’s a short and sweet list:

  • Designing a service for their customers instead of relying on paid exclusivity to encourage social pressure or FOMO
  • Halfway decent customer support
  • Unreal Engine 5’s performance
  • Keeping their old of games accessible
  • Not scamming kids out of virtual money
pivot_root, do games w GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”

The approved competitor to a monopoly is… checks notes a wannabe monopoly that’s trying to buy their way into the position by providing less for the customer and instead bribing the publishers for exclusivity?

No, thanks. I would rather stick with the existing monopoly than reward Epic’s anticompetitive and anti-consumer bullshit.

pivot_root, do games w Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat?

But how would we get through to normie 12-year-olds who just want to play Valorant and not have their face constantly rubbed in the dirt by “hackers”?

I think it would be good for them to be told the truth: you aren’t being killed by hackers, you just suck.

pivot_root, do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

Fair point with neither being publicly traded. I should have been more clear on that.

Unreal the engine, or the game series? From the perspective of a consumer, I don’t think either of them seem to be in good shape these days, unfortunately.

Er… Carmarck is in Id. Epic’s founder and CEO is Tim Sweeney.

pivot_root, do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

“Fucking hypocrite” and “Epic Games”. Never have any other set of 4 words fit together so perfectly.

pivot_root, do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

“Making yourself suffer” by boycotting Steam.

It goes against every fiber of my being to not utterly despise a multi-billion dollar corporation, but I just don’t have the energy that I used to. I have to pick the battles I want to fight, and they haven’t done enough to make it worth it for me to do that.

pivot_root, do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

Some perspective from someone vocally against Epic:

They entered the market and tried to get their foot in the door not by providing a better service or experience to the consumers, but by being underhanded and anticompetitive while accusing their competition of being underhanded and anticompetitive. Add on that with the fact that their CEO lacks any sort of humility and integrity, and I simply do not trust them to give a single shit about me as a customer. If they achieved their goals, I’m confident that they would leverage their position to extract value out of me immediately—be it through ads, increased prices, or selling my data to third parties. I don’t want to support that by giving them any of money.

While I don’t think Valve is my friend either, they at least:

  1. Have a history of doing things that provide some benefit to their users, even if its clearly out of self-interest.
  2. Aren’t publicly traded.
pivot_root, (edited ) do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

When it turns to shit, we have the high seas.

Everything goes to shit eventually, but pre-emptively making yourself suffer is just silly. Enjoy the time you have, and vote with your wallet once they start doing anticompetitive crap like paid exclusivity deals. Until then, we might as well enjoy the fact that Valve isn’t a public company obligated to chase short term profits for shareholders.

pivot_root, do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

Epic is the pro-developer storefront.

I think their historically-bad UE5 documentation and laser focus on adding features optimized for Fortnite but terrible for other uses beg to differ.

They’re the pro-shareholder storefront. Nothing more, nothing less.

pivot_root, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

Don’t forget, he knows more about manufacturing game development than anyone currently alive on earth.

pivot_root, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

The cosmetics are all unique and non-fungible, and can be resold to other X premium users for real-world money in the form of credit that can be used to buy different tokens cosmetics.

pivot_root, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

They might actually get along. The CEOs of both happen to be hypocritical asswipes who think providing a worse product and complaining about competition will give them the monopoly they’re pretending to not want.

pivot_root, (edited ) do games w The Witcher 4 has entered full-scale production, CD Projekt has confirmed

If I recall correctly, the “next gen update” for The Witcher 3 was UE5.

I did not recall correctly.

pivot_root, do games w Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release

Thanks for the correction. I sometimes get those two mixed up in my memory, and it’s a really stupid problem that I need to fix.

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