1623

I’ve never looked into that whole virtual cc number thing. I’ll have to see if my Chase Amazon Visa supports that.

1624

China makes all of your smart phone too you weird paranoid people.

1625

I’d gladly make up the 18% Double Damage gets sliced off from the EGS, or the 30% they don’t get from Steam, by buying it directly or through GoG. Hell, I’d pay more. And I don’t think I’m alone.

One of those hateful things I have to live with because of the relentless late stage capitalism doctrine of shoving manufacturing to the cheapest production pool possible. Am I happy that my phone was likely cobbled up in some Foxconn indoctrination camp? No. Do I have a choice if I need a phone? No.

1626

The numbers just don’t make sense. Setting it up for direct buy (and a way to patch!) is a huge pain and next to nobody uses it (voice of experience here!)
And GoG is just tiny, tiny numbers compared to Steam or EGS.

1627

I’m not worried about the China connection. I’ve read that partial ownership by a Chinese company like Tencent facilitates doing business in China, so I figured it’s a formality more than an active partnership.

However, DNS lookups for tracking.epicgames.com did start popping up on my Pi-Hole’s logs after installing the EGS client. So it’s not completely benign.

1628


This may give you an idea of what’s going on there.
That’s a tracking pixel. Most websites use them. Steam uses them too. EGS store is webkit based.

In this case it is used to manage the support-a-creator program -

It’s very public in their code and not obfuscated at all.

1629

I mentioned the Humble Widget back in December of 2018.

https://www.humblebundle.com/developer/widget

95% in your pocket!

Definitely look into it when you get the game onto Steam next year.

I’ve bought dozens of games via the humble widget directly off of developers websites.

1630

That sounds reasonable. And Nick did exactly what I did, used Pi-Hole to block it. Actually I didn’t give it a second thought until this discussion came up.

1631

I mean, yes, but it’s still a Steam or EGS build. I’m assuming for 99.9% of the people with a beef here, the fact that they’d still download from EGS wouldn’t exactly alleviate their concerns?

1632

Well maybe… ok ok ok, probably not. :)

1633

While I would much rather have this on Steam, because that’s my little gaming “cave”, I’m quite happy to travel to the weird store down the back alley to buy an amazing game that supports amazing creators. I’ll create a link in Steam anyway, so really I’ll only miss updates on Steam and things like achievements, discussion, screenshots etc - I can live with that to get it a year early.

1634

I like the way you phrased that. Because that’s how I think. I have Steam. And I have a folder called GAME LAUNCHERS. ARC, Blizzard, Epic, GOG, Origin, Uplay.

I guess I have a folder for the things that are selling my blood type and such to foreign nationals. I gave up on worrying when I got Origin. Now it’s just stuff.

1635

Gamers are pretty reactionary in general.

1636

We’re petulant man-children most of the time. It’s a tough job.

1637

Please keep the epic store discussion in the dedicated thread. Rebel Galaxy Outlaw deserves better.

1638

Where’s the like button?

1639

Will this support Kali and DWANGO?

1640

I have a lot of issues with the Embolic Gambling Scam, but that is not really one of them, plenty of people are monitoring what goes out to the network from the client Just wait a year, which goes by like that, and take EGS to the other thread, for everyone’s sake. Because…

yep, that’s why we have a 1600+ thread of discussion about it. So, anyway, what’s the store location for the Proton version of RGO?

@tbaldree , might as well congratulate you on what looks like a great game as well and wish you success. I can’t budget the time or the money anyway, so no loss here from your choice of intermediary :P

1641

Is the console version likely to be 2019?

1642

Twenty five days til gaming bliss.