Not really, the point is it takes longer to do everything so the player’s forced to grind longer. That problem’s especially bad for players who play less or more casually.

Yeah, it took me like three straight days trying to hit rocks to get the 30 iron nuggets needed to build the shop because you only get them from rocks and I was stupid and dug up my rocks on like the first or second day I played (and rocks only respawn once per day and only give you rewards once per day, also before I…

The fact that it lasts 12 days instead of 1 day is the entire reason for the complaints, dude. That’s not just a little detail you can gloss over, that's a massive change that's the crux of the problem.

I play half an hour to an hour a day. This 2 week event full of garbage is hindering my ability to enjoy the game, which consists of progressing my town via resource and bell gathering, by diluting loot pools with shitty eggs that sell for next to nothing. It also hinders my ability to advance my home, which is my…

I mean, I didn’t play yesterday or today. I got the game Monday. Maybe max two hours a day? The eggs are annoying.

I get what you’re saying, that there’s no “beating Animal Crossing” and that it’s all about finding the zen of just doing, but there’s also something to be said about being SO frustrated by being constantly blocked from doing those things that bring the zen that you just no longer want to play.

Okay? Bruh, he’s making a recommendation, with some guidelines and caveats. Chill.

Anytime someone mentions Rogue Warrior I end up watching this again. 

If Steam was in the habit or price gouging, you’d have a point. And if there weren’t at least 5 other PC digital distribution platforms. There’s no benefit from consumer point of view by adding yet another PC marketplace. GOG is the only other one I care to use. Any other I use is out of necessity. It’s not like…

Oh the, irony here is delicious.

Hey, happy to point out how illogical and self-centered your “argument” is!

I’d like for Epic to compete with Steam on a level-playing field. Would you use their platform if they didn’t extortion developers?

Strawman fallacy. People aren’t expecting EGS to be “perfect and impeccable right out of the gate,” they’re expecting basic, industry-standard features to be available 4 months in.

Considering there’s a blueprint out there for successful online storefronts and business practices, it should be at least half as good.
The Epic store isn’t even that.

And yet Epic isn’t competing against 2004 Steam, they are competing with 2019 Steam and all that comes with it. They chose to enter this market and they knew what they had to compete against and decided that they didn't want to compete on features and they can and should be criticized for it. 

It’s reasonable to expect some kind of parity, and not just let everything slide. Being opposing to Epic because they lack features that Steam has is a perfectly legitimate point of contention, and it is insane to suggest otherwise. Your continual dismissal of people who dislike Epic as reasonless “Steam fanboys” only…

Customers shouldn’t be expected to wait for a competitor to “get up to speed” as it ignores all the modern advances of existing encumbents. Horrible, horrible “argument”.

In fairness (I guess it’s fairness?) there really wasn’t anything like Epic Store before this so I don’t think steam was really adamantly keeping things exclusive. If you were, say, the developer of Hollow Knight and you were looking into how to release the game on PC, your options probably looked like this at the…

The difference is that Valve didn’t have those developers sign a contract where they couldn’t sell their game anywhere else.