What’s the annoying blue bar that keeps animating across the top of the window?
It’s tracking the number of posts arguing about the Epic store.
TurinTur
5920
They updated something related to the cloud saves.
KevinC
5921
Yeah, Borderlands 3 was (and reportedly may still be, after the update) eating cloud saves. Super fun.
That’s a loading bar. It appears in a couple of different places for a few different reasons, but it generally indicates loading.
Paul_cze
5923
If by interesting you mean moronic
Epic is anti /worker/, it’s the fact that it’s being more pro-/consumer/ than Valve has ever bothered being that’s what’s got everyone’s underwear twisted up.
Epic might have some issues with Fortnite crunch but I very much doubt that it is “antiworker”, and claiming that Epic is being - right now - more procustomer oriented than Valve is hilariously dumb. (Yes the free games are good, but that is the only thing Epic is has right now that is customer-oriented, as far as store is concerned).
stusser
5924
I like free shit. A lot. There’s no possible way for a store to treat me better than giving me free shit I want.
If exclusives are anger inducing, I can understand this stance. But for the gamers who don’t care about exclusivity, who enjoy the curated approach, frequently download the weekly free games, take advantage of sales, etc. saying they’re more pro customer isn’t “hilariously dumb”.
Paul_cze
5926
Not nearly just about exclusivity (but yes that is a large part, I do not enjoy having choices taken away from me). The complete lack of functionality compared to Steam and even GOG is the other big part.
That’s fair enough, for me the free games do not outweigh the lack of functionality and choice removal and price increase.
Unless of course you go into a store to buy groceries, and they have no groceries, or the groceries they have are expired and rotting, but they give you a free hat. You want a hat, sure, but you went into the store for groceries. Once you have the free hat, you aren’t likely to go back there because you still need groceries, and they don’t have any.
That… I think that was a terrible analogy.
Because, even if you think of epic as a Grocery store, you aren’t getting a free hat, but free groceries. And none of them are expired. They may not be the ones you want, but that aren’t rotten or expired.
On the other hand, since all the commerce is Digital, nothing is stopping you from going across the street to any of the other grocery stores, be they Origin, Steam, GoG or whatever. They all still exist and are right there as well. So, it’s not like you don’t have options.
Again, I am trying to roll with your analogy, but I find it lacking in so many ways…
Oh, to clarify, I’m not actually talking about the Epic store, just making a jab at the overall logic in what I thought was a funny way. I have no problems with the EGS really, so far. Sorry if it appeared that I was aiming at EGS in particular. I was just struck by the image of going into a store and getting something free, but the store not really having what I wanted in the first place. Or something.
Sorry about that. Nuisance is hard to pick up on in written format sometimes.
My mistake.
Naw, my fault; I should have realized how things would read on a message board. No, so far I am treating EGS like any other store. I go there, I buy stuff, I use it. I have not (yet) been bitten by their cloud save issue, which I agree is a problem they need to fix pronto.
The cloud save thing is shitty. It is probably the most important feature they need to have right.
That and a lack of Linux support are probably the two arguments that are most compelling to me, about why it’s justified to hate on Epic. I personally am not impacted by the lack of Linux support, but I can understand being pissed about games that I could run with Steam, not being available.
stusser
5933
Erasing savegames is unforgivable. I would be absolutely furious if that happened to me.
Wow, ok - that was my first thought but my second was ‘nooo, it can’t be loading that long/often. What’s it loading? There’s nothing updating.’ :P
Plus there seemed to be a big blue loading bar at the bottom of the window too, when the launcher starts up…
KevinC
5935
That’s the loading bar for loading the top bar.
Yep, that’s why I mentioned multiple places; the bottom bar is for page transitions, e.g. when you shift from the Unreal tab to the Library.
Epic is pro-consumer because they are allowing us to play games we can’t play at other stores. I mean, without Epic we wouldn’t be able to play these games anywhere!
