You may want to read the ruling. The injunction is specifically against the policy that prevents apps from pointing to off-app payment options. The ruling states that Apple is not a monopoly, did not break their contract with Epic, and does not have to let Epic back on iOS devices; they do not need to allow third…

Yes, they would, but they’d also then boycott that company for that decision. You know, like the Blitzchung incident. Perfect parallel, people fired for expressing a view without consulting the company first that may damage the brand, complete with a public response.

As someone in the Twitter comments shared, it’s possible to ignore results from an entire developer in Steam. If you go to their specific Steam page and click on the gear, the option “Ignore all from this creator” becomes available.

I couldn’t give two shits about Valve. They just have the better product. Every time there’s a criticism of Epic, however, you jump in to their defense, usually with a “that doesn’t matter.” If it doesn’t matter, people wouldn’t be complaining about it. Epic is providing a shittier product, all around, and I’m frankly…

You really haven’t used Steam in a while, have you? It’s awash with crap games, with quality indie games nestled in and amongst them. And pretty much the only way to find out if they are crap or not is the reviews, because a website is ridiculously easy to throw up and there aren’t many reviews for these tiny games…

Porn and sex work payments are notoriously unreliable, and credit companies in particular are risk-averse. Which is why credit scores exist in the first place, it’s a measure of how risky giving you credit is. Even without the presence of overbearing “think of the children” types, it would be difficult to get them to…

Because you can’t make money if you can’t get paid, and the payment processors don’t like porn or sex work because payments for it are notoriously unreliable. It’s purely a business decision based around the supposed risk of payments.

Also, since you insist on being dense about this particular topic, the answer is time. Trawling the internet is a long, time-consuming task, and some of us spend most of our days working and keeping up house. That leaves precious little time to spend trawling the internet, and every minute spent doing that is a minute…

You know what else Steam does that Epic doesn’t do? Show reviews and articles relating to the item on it’s page, so you can browse them readily and get a good idea as to whether it’s worth investing in. It’s almost as if Steam is more interested in serving consumers than Epic is. Stop defending anti-consumer practices.

No shit. But some companies do make an effort to offer features to retain a user base. And Straw Hat shills really fucking hard for Epic as if they are some big software store messiah who can do no fucking wrong. Epic is extremely anti-consumer in their approach, and the more this is pointed out, the more pressure can…

Ah, back to leaning on Steam to fill in for the Epic Store, eh? Just admit that Epic doesn’t care about you, the consumer, and move on.

How are you supposed to know whether one of these games is worth purchasing without user reviews and forums?

The problem is in differentiating between what a word actually historically means and how it’s been inappropriately used. A word that is used solely to be demeaning? Sure, stop using it. But other words have been misused and still have their original meanings intact and used properly, and demanding that those words…

You clearly aren’t familiar with the history of Blizzard North.

“Depilated?” Did you mean “dilapidated?” I’m pretty sure the house wasn’t recently waxed...

Aside from uneven coverage mentioned by rogueIndy, there’s also the fact that this is essentially free advertising for a storefront, rather than something that’s actually, you know, newsworthy. Since Kotaku is awash with advertising now anyway, why can’t Epic advertise their free games in those spots like everybody…

I feel the need to ask. With free games constantly being available on other stores, even quality ones, why is it that Epic is the storefront that is constantly getting free advertising?

Which, of course, isn’t what was happening here.

As it should, OK Broomer works on so many different levels.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Civilization VI, Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission; also books like “Team Reaper 1-7" and movies like “Stay Awesome China.” All in just the photo.