5009

And if Epic does this for the next 5+ years, you won’t care. Because it can always be justified. Any tactic can be justified. And you don’t care, because you’ll just place the ‘blame’ on steam and the market: if the market/steam wanted it otherwise, they would make it so companies wouldn’t want to take the exclusives.

The same logic can be applied to any anti-consumer activity. “If the market didn’t make lootboxes profitable, they wouldn’t be used.”

So you’re not against any level of exclusivity – you just don’t care about it. Which is fine – just be honest about it.

5010
5011

Oh no you don’t. You are one of the biggest culprits in this topic. You ran into a situation you haven’t experienced. So instead of just listening to someone else complain about EGS you decided not to just voice your opinion, that you were going to systematically try to tear down anyone else who might have a different opinion than you by taking information freely given to you by community members here…

And try to use it to destroy and invalidate their voice, dismiss their experience and try and remove them as a participant in any discussion. It’s not an accident that a simple complaint about a poorly implemented fraud system that very few, if ANY other store uses turned into yet another opportunity for you to turn on the attack only to later then shrug the next day, and say I just don’t get why people are so mad.

5012

Epic’s flush with cash, but it’s from one game. Now it remains to be seen if Fortnite Battle Royale will be evergreen like Minecraft or LoL. My initial response is no way, but it’s possible, right? Still, they need to diversify. That’s where the store came in.

Lets not ascribe motivations to people. I’m sure that was just lego’s immediate response. He isn’t playing three dimensional chess in a brilliant long-term strategy to derail anyone’s opinion on this stupid game store. He just saw that some people have multiple game computers and that was his reaction.

5013

I don’t agree. Although Fortnite has been a game-changer, Epic has been profitable for a long time. The Unreal Engine and Gears of War are two examples of hugely successful products.

5014

There’s successful and then there’s successful. Fortnite Battle Royale is a whole different level than their engine licensing business.

5015

I agree that FN:BR’s success levels (both in terms of users and revenue) are on another level, but saying they’re flush with cash due to one game is false as Epic was flush with cash long before FN:BR existed.

5016

Capture

Looks like we have a fun day ahead of us!

5017

Great. I explained what I meant by that, so now it’s clear.

5018

Lol. I think it’s the devs that makes promises should be the ones that have to keep them, it isn’t like Epic send a group of mobsters to make devs sign the contract, ‘or else’. Blame the devs in that, not Epic.

5019

I’d argue it’s been a pattern from the beginning from him.

Any criticism of anything Epic seems to get this treatment. Keep in mind this was his response to being wrong about something. “First World Problems” about fucking video games is well… come on. Literally ALL video game issues are First World Problems. It’s akin to saying no matter what Epic (or Steam or Apple) does it’s fine because at least you aren’t being killed with machetes in the street or starving Kappa.

5020

Very good. Not perfect, mind you, it starts with a few problems, but no game is perfect.

5021

Oh heck no. This is not the first time time he’s gone after someone. First there weren’t enough children, now there is too much money and the crime of having more than one computer, new or old. What’s next, are pet owners allowed to have an opinion? if we have a cellphone is it okay to talk about EGS?

How about we just stop trying to dismiss every minor opinion about this damn store as if the person making the complaint has asked the EGS supporters to line up against a wall.

5022

Please attack the post, not the poster.

5023

I am not the one who tried to dismiss the entire QT3 community as being too rich to matter.

5024

I think we can do both: let’s not dismiss complaints about the store, and let’s not turn Lego’s rant in this case into something malicious, as I don’t think it was. He was just talking coming from his experience, and admitted as much later on.

5025

Okay, that last one about the Hutts was obviously said in jest. There was a whole section about how Amazon was the evil empire that had nothing to do with Epic what so ever. Not sure why you would quote such as silly remark out of context but it is a bit low for you. Context is key, as is a sense of humor.

As for the rest, I obviously came at it from a place of ignorance. I have young children, so it seemed rather expansive to have multiple gaming machines and seemed ridiculous to buy more than one copy of a game.

But that was just my experience growing up and my experience with having a young family and living off a single income. That might change in a few years, and my experiences might more closely match the older members of QT3 with more disposable time and income.

I am sorry that you feel my experience is not valid in your world. But I guess that’s just the way things go.

5026

It’s not a rant. It is a pattern that is continuously showing up in this discussion, and to add to the insult, right after he does it, he shows up here and does this weirdo shrug thing and says I just don’t get why people get so mad about a store as if he didn’t just do this literally yesterday or the last time someone posted here or the time before that.

It is so freaking frustrating to see people try and have a discourse about this store only to watch the endless attack on the posters, and then as soon as one person gets frustrated enough to snap back the self appointed topic police show and try and to control it as if the one person who just got snippy first didn’t endure an endless amount of this kind of shit first.

This is why we can’t talk about Epic like we can Steam.

5027

I appreciate that.

Epic isnt perfect. And maybe you are right. Maybe they’ll continue to have exclusives 5 years down the line, like consoles do. In that case, I would have to admit that I was naive and in the wrong. If, after 5 years, you need to have exclusives to compete, that would be a losing deal.

Heck, if in 2020 they are still signing exclusive deals (even timed ones) I think that would be a jerk move. Especially since they don’t support Linux, like Steam does (probably the best complaint against Epic, if you are a Linux gamer).

Now, quick caveat the developer decides to only sell on Epic, but aren’t forced to by agreement, that’s different from Epic requiring exclusives.

5028

It’s the other fucking way around. At no point did anyone else go around saying people are too poor to be allowed to talk. You are the one that keeps trying to do this passive aggressive crap by trying to use markers to circle people and dismiss them based on wealth of which you don’t even know everything about, or children or anything else you can come up with. And look, you’re doing your passive aggressive garbage yet again.