5978

Sorry, I meant what is the question you’re looking to answer?

5979

Batman, Batman, Batman!

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/collection/batman-free-week

5980

Damn. It’s everything EXCEPT for the Telltale series. All 3 Arkham games from Rocksteady, and all 3 lego batman games.

Do the Lego Batman games have good voice acting like Lego Underworld? Or are they mute games like the Lego Star Wars games?

Edit: To answer my own question, it appears the first Lego Batman is done in mime, like the Lego Star Wars games, but Lego Batman 2 (and 3, I’m assuming) has voice acting.

5981

What?! You think you can BUY my loyalty with free games? Phsst . . . wait, the Batman Arkham collection for free and even more stuff every week? Where do I sign up?

5982

Is Epic a drag on sales.

5983

That would probably work out as well.

5984

For AAA games I think we already have the answer: no. People will go where the exclusives are.

5985

And it will be interesting to see how many people pick it up on Steam later anyhow.

And I don’t think ‘hugely anticipated game sells well’ was ever in dispute. The question was how games without a built in audience and guaranteed success would fare.

5986

This statement is totally bogus. Epic is NEVER going to carry all the games that Steam does. It only has a chance of being true for games that Epic allows on their storefront, but for the vast majority of games, Steam has no incentive to change their pricing.

5987

Very impressive offering by Epic for people who do not have those games yet and are interested in them.

Unfortunately for me, whoever is picking the games to give out probably has access to my steam account and brain, because they consistently either pick games I already own, or am not interested in :)

5988

We already had some solid data points on that. Why is it still an open question?

The interesting thing with the BL3 statement was that this was the first time we got any kind of concrete number for a AAA game on Epic. Previously it had just been either bad comparisons (Metro) or content-free platitudes (“we’re very happy with the performance”).

It couldn’t just be that you’re automatically buying every game you’re interested in, right? :-P

5989

Nonsense! But yeah that’s mostly it. But there are some games on my wishlist I haven’t bought yet, like The Council, Walking Dead S3 and some such.
That said even if they did give out games I wanted, I want to wait for the EGS to at least have a god damn playtime tracking before I use it.

5990

Playtime tracking has been implemented!

5991

Well that is good news. I guess it was added with the list view in this latest update that installed today?

5992

Slightly before. The EGStore has more consumer friendly features coming (including some things that don’t exist anywhere else), stay tuned!

5993

Lunarstorm, I’m not sure if you’re able (or willing) to say, but do you work on the store yourself or are you on a different team at Epic?

5994

I’m willing but I’ve received insults here and death threats elsewhere, so I probably shouldn’t… :(

5995

Yikes. Well, no worries, it was just curiosity more than anything. And I know how hard software development is, so if I knew it was “your baby” I’d make extra effort to moderate my tone when I have stuff to gripe about (although I thought I was pretty reserved when Borderlands 3 ate my cloud save! :)).

5996

I’m so sorry… Seriously, this is borderline unforgivable and I wish it never happened to anyone, ever.

5997

I’m hoping to eventually say more about who I am, but professional hesitations aside, my family has expressed concerns with a potential backlash. For now I will simply say I am a part of the engineering leadership team working a dream job who happens to frequent this board.