They need to keep those 12 year old kids and their mommy’s credit cards around as long as they can.

Honestly, this sounds just like Valve’s defense of random critical hits in Team Fortress 2. It was a stupid defense back then too.

I’ve for the most part stayed away from the Fortnite hatetrain. I don’t play it, and so I don’t have a horse in the race here. But adding something to a competitive game specifically so bad players have an “better chance at winning” seems counterproductive to the idea of a competitive game.  I loath the whole…

Random powerups to help weaker players for no reason is a pretty good way to make a game suck.

I don’t play Fortnite, so I got no skin in this game. That out of the way...

The mech wasn’t added for any competitive reason. It was added in an attempt to show up Respawn for not putting Titans in Apex Legends, their Titanfall spin-off battle royale. It backfired miserably, which is exactly what they deserve for their arrogance.

They did you one better; they’ve now designed a game where it’s the only composition!

If Blizzard wanted to make a game where the ideal composition was 2/2/2, then they should have made a game where 2/2/2 was the ideal composition. The fact that people were choosing to play other compositions than Blizzard had hoped is a failure of the design team, not of the players. Role-locking is basically giving…

Seriously. Harassment isn’t the answer but the initial announcement of the EGS exclusivity was soooo bad. So bad that just reading it, I knew they were about to get pummeled worse than the other EGS exclusives.

If you get harassed, that’s definitely the fault of the harasser.

These devs are bullshit though, and fueled a fuck ton of this through being total asses(at least the dude) on their discord. No reporting on how the dude just basically shit on anyone who disagreed with their decision civil or otherwise? Also being condescending as fuck in the initial announcement. Hopefully they’ll…

They took the Epic exclusivity bribe, they get the online yelling.

If it were about convenience, I’d agree. But the reason I’m against the EGS is less about how it directly impacts me and more about how their business practices will shape the future of the industry.

Straw man. Do better.

No mention of this?

I mean this is all very dumb of course but let’s not pretend the devs didn’t write an insanely ill-advised post that any decent PR rep would have aborted immediately.

Epic Game Store has a lot of problems. By all means, criticize those problems. Bring up its flaws. Suggest improvements.

Yeah don’t haze people even if they did a rather tone deaf press release. If you don’t want Epic to continue snatching games you may or may not have already pre ordered on Steam, don’t buy the Epic copies and make sure your friends don’t either.

You’re really brushing off the level of snark in their announcement, and failing to mention how they addressed concerns about availability of their game in different countries with currencies not accepted by Epic’s storefront with a “you’re not entitled to our game” bitchy and not at all joking response (which sort of…

Just curious but how is it a win for Epic?  If the game doesn’t sell very well wouldn’t Epic basically have to buy the remaining copies?