I don’t know where anyone spoke in hatred of anything, we just have some dislikes and fears of things that aren’t unprecedented or assuaged by their communications. I, and others, have said more than once that it’s fine if they’re not problems for you and that nothing is set in stone (including their current benefits).
And yet, every time anyone has an issue to raise, they get multiple replies about how one should just take everything at face value and how stupid they are for not doing so.
The hate is not on me, mate.
Epic doesn’t support Linux so, yes, Linux gamers have a rather serious problem using EGS.
Damn right.
Didn’t you just call them Evil earlier today?
Sorry, I didn’t realize it was a Linux thing that would keep you from using the epic store and not just a refusal to use it. That is obviously different. I don’t see adding Linux support on their roadmap right now so that would be a bummer if your game of choice became an exclusive.
Not to say you’re wrong, but is that right? Epic just started EGS about 5 months ago, so this seems like an awfully bold claim. Can you explain a little more? Perhaps I’m not understanding the context.
They’ve talked about “price discipline”- the same words Charter used to jack up rates.
Sure. I am talking specifically about the games Epic made exclusive to itself. For example Metro Exodus. Before they made it exclusive, I could have bought it for 48 eurobucks on an authorized third party reseller store and get steam version with all the features and benefits it has (particularly important for me are family sharing, playtime tracking, steam cloud with screenshots). After exclusivity and Epic Store being the single point of availability, the price went up to 60 euros and of course Epic currently has none of the features I mentioned.
Same is the case for other games, although I am “lucky” in that none of the other games made exclusive so far have appealed to me. Outer Worlds, Sinking City and Control were on my day 1 purchase list, but now I will get to wait an extra year. Yay.
Ahhh - it’s the context, then. Sorry for the confusion. I don’t think most people here are expecting Epic to have lower costs on exclusives (although, I think most people think the competition between stores will bring down costs in the PC gaming marketplace in general). Then again, if they’re exclusives, it’s hard to compare what the price would have been elsewhere. But yeah, Metro Exodus is a good example, although I’ve seen Steam do that plenty of times with limited deals on presales (albeit normally cutting off much closer to release, but not always).
Made me look. No, I said they acted greedily, which is always debatable and not even wrong for everyone.
Being an electron app, I’m sure it works mostly fine with Wine or quickly will. It would be trivial to support the basic features of the launcher, but I admit the rest might not be and it’s more work regardless.
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Valve have also done a massive amount of work both to make it easier to produce linux-native game binaries that can run across multiple distros, and more recently to run windows games under emulation (the proton project)
Another EPIC store PC exclusive. Also on consoles.
Ok, now that looks very interesting, not what I would have expected from a John Wick based game. I am intrigued by what was shown.
A non-VR John Wick game? Sold.
Is his Staffordshire terrier in the game?
From the 2nd film.
Something that will never happen again happened again. GG Kickstarter and Fig.
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Was it promised originally on Steam? I couldn’t find any information about that.
It was, Eurogamer mentioned it.
Initially, the developer expected the game to be ready for Q2 2016 and had been “planning” to release the game on Mac, Linux and PC via Steam.
No big deal. Game looks like a turd anyway.
But you can toast marshmallows at a campfire. :)
I have that game in the Windows Store! MS gave it as gift for watching the last year E3 conference on mixer.
