load times actually mater. A lot of game design currently is working around loading zones and texture pop in.  Eliminating that is actually quite interesting from a dev standpoint, and changes how levels and textures are designed. 

I’ll rise to the challenge because its something i’m fairly passionate about, the difference between the drum gun and the pump is one of consistency.

“You know what this will actually do? It will make us charge more than we actually want for the items in order to make up the difference. I would love to know how this helps players at all.”

A less than 2% take rate on manual equipped cars in the US? There are whole brands that don’t offer manuals. 

This is a perfectly reasonable take and you’re clearly not the only one in the comments who feels this way. I may just be too jaded to have my own opinion either way, but I respect it.

I’m probably going to be dumped on if this comment reaches high enough to be read, but... this is to me a bit in poor taste to report on so soon? I mean, yeah, this a car news blog. But man, a building blew up and multiple people died. It just so happens that a neighboring building had some old cars in it, and those…

If you read the article you’d see that there isn’t really evidence that Tencent or the Epic store is giving data to the Chinese government.  Additionally, if thats your fear then you should basically cease using all modern gaming platforms and services because they have a hand in almost all of them.  Tencent is simply…

I will never understand the childish anger of internet gamer bros. I get the social/cultural/political roots of it, I just can’t imagine being so angry over something so miniscule. I like to believe it’s just teenagers who don’t know any better, but it’s so often overemotional adult men. It blows my mind every time…

What are the tangible negatives? Other than having to install a second service...so minor.

Game developers getting 18% more of your money is a huge benefit to the customer: The game developer can invest more in the games you love, and has less incentive to depend on trashy DLC models.

sounds like the problem is that it feels out of place relative to the rest of the game

Seems like something all games should do IMO.

I don’t think you can register a game mechanic....can you?
I certainly hope not!

“Detailing cars is the most soul sucking profession on the planet,”..

For the better part of a decade, Valve had a near-monopoly on the PC game storefront, with no real competition. To the point that Steam was synonymous with digital PC game storefronts, like Kleenex or Advil. Valve’s lack of proactive or timely fixes to Steam are a direct result of them having no real competition. It…

Good god look at all the Steam bros coming out whining all over the internet AGAIN. Jesus christ how can you have such ridiculous allegiance to some corporation that doesn’t give a crap about you?

So I assume you want it this way instead:
Epic: “We’re going to open our own store to promote competition!”
Epic: “Let’s just offer developers more money from their sales, but literally do no other moves that might bring attention to our new store front.”

You all act like downloading the Epic Store requires you buy an…

Moronic gamers: “I don’t know what a competitive market looks like.”

Ya know except for the fact that this is competition? The store fronts are competing not the game with itself. This is how competition works in other markets. You try to get exclusive deals with other companies to draw customers. This is pretty much a brand deal. There are many reasons to complain about the Epic games…

Exclusives are a way of creating competition between storefronts. Epic has drawn a line in the sand labeled 12% and now expects Steam to step up if they want games to be drawn back to their storefront. 30% is an INSANE royalty rate and they only got away with it because there wasn’t an alternative. Now there is.