This. Everyone’s acting like a “sorry we got caught” apology should set our minds at ease.

Yes, throwing a little hissyfit of your own certainly takes less effort than thinking critically.

Same. I really dislike the Epic Store, and realize that it’s a straight loss for consumers with no upside, and many downsides. But I have never review-bombed anything or written hatemail for anything.

Good news, this exists! It’s called Playnite :)

This would’ve been a pretty good argument...before the countless reports I see in every comment section about people who have their EGS accounts breached or attempted to be breached repeatedly. That and the data scraping that EGS admitted to, albeit claiming it was an accident. Oh, and also this tweet by Tim Sweeney…

Cool, if you’re not willing to invest the time to analyze what people are actually upset about that’s fine. It’s not really a big issue in the grand scheme of things.

I’ve never seen a comment that makes it more obvious that not only did the commenter not read the article, but probably hasn’t ready any articles about this issue from this site ever.

They skipped over just about every point that they couldn’t “disprove.”

This. The article talks about conspiracy theories right before explaining that yes, Epic WAS caught scraping data that it wasn’t supposed to. And did some video game “journalist” discover this in the course of doing their fucking job? Nope, the “entitled conspiracy theorist” gamers did.

But Tim Sweeney said it was a…

You did though. Textbook whataboutism - except a terrible example, because as another commenter pointed out, the US government is a client, and the Chinese government forces you to give them shit just to be able to do business.

Your goalposts are on wheels holy shit.

It’s pretty funny that every blogger shilling for Epic brings up that Sweeney tweet saying “We totally aren’t controlled by TenCent!” as some type of “proof.” Yet they totally ignore the one from a few months ago where he basically admits that they are:

What could possibly make you think that supermarkets and brands of chips are a good example of a system for how people should want their video games to be sold? That would fucking suck.

I have literal life and death issues to worry about in this US of A, this doesn’t fucking stack.

Hey Nathan, I’ve noticed a lot of people sharing that tweet by Sweeney talking about how he totally isn’t influenced by tencent. Yet I’ve only ever seen THIS earlier tweet shared by commenters, never by any journalists. Do you think perhaps Sweeney’s tweet of reassurance loses a bit of its comfort factor in light of…

But it’s so powerful that these community members took time out of their busy schedule of raping and murdering to light some candles!

If she was defending herself, sure.

Sometimes the Root gets a little excited in its headlines and stories for the sake of click-bait

The only people winning in all of this are the publishers cashing all of these checks from Epic.

Except now that the sub reopens, we discover that the comments the mods posted as evidence of bigotry were all unpopular, downvoted comments that were cherry picked to make it seem like bigotry was rampant.