I'm not sure how they managed to make me bored just in the intro cutscene, the "crazy" fire fight after turned it into a very quick delete. Didn't even get to the much talked about "student debt" line.
it's obvious that the ip was over and they needed to move on. too bad their new game was trash though. maybe if they pleaded with other publishers they could have got tossed a superhero ip, it seemed like it was their time to shine on that front.
>Old EGS: "You want Dishonored man? Sure thing. Here's Death Stranding too. How about every Batman game ever made?" >New EGS: "Pwa--Pwease grab our free indie titles... no you haven't heard of them before... SHUT UP, THEY'RE CHEAP TO LICENSE, ALRIGHT?"
I have had Soulstice on my wishlist for years but didn't get around to trying it so this is great actually
Can't wait to claim it then forget I even have it on EGS
Didn't you read the news about them stopping the paid exclusive thing? They don't give studios money anymore or guanranteed sales. Best they do now is taking a 0% during the first six months if you make your game Epic exclusive. Timmy literally ran out of money.
oh cool shit, so on top on not asking for the unreal engine fee if you also release your game on egs they also give you 100% on egs sales if you make it exclusive to their store
shit, guess I was wrong, they are pushing the store very aggresively
Before that program Epic literally guranteed you sales. You make your game exclusive for x months and Epic buy hundreds of thousands of copies of your game in return.
Now you only keep 100% of the money that you make on Epic but no sales are guranteed. And keeping 100% of zero copies sold is zero dollars.
Not even being good can save you from Epics black hole. EGS fricking sucks at marketing itself.
Today they announced that Tony Hawk is getting a Steam release. And basically every site is running the news like the game is finally getting a PC release. Even though it has been on PC for year - On Epic Game Store. It#s just that nobody knew about it cause nobody buys shit on it.
Same with Sonic Colors. Nobody knew the Remaster was on PC until it left the Epic exclusivity hole. And nobody knows that Dead Space 2 is on PC either.
They spend all their money on buying out old games to give away for free instead of letting people know that shit is available to buy.
8 months ago
Anonymous
*Dead Island 2
8 months ago
Anonymous
you're too dumb to realize this but there's hardly any gaming news to report on
>le zero copies sold meme
xd >it's a worse deal
i don't know what previous deal you're talking about, I only added the shit about the unreal engine fees, but if what you say is true then I guess it is a worse deal, sure
8 months ago
Anonymous
>meme
games barely sell on EGS. One of their best-selling titles last year was Saints Row, a game that did so poorly it killed the studio.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>i will now jump from le miden (miden means zero) meme to a "barely" meme. also I will use saints row as an example on why my meme is a nice meme!
it is a nice meme bro...
Them ending their welfare program that only lazy c**t developers used was already a sign that they're running out of non-service oriented incentives to draw customers and devs in.
They gave away a good amount of high profile games including gta v and it didn't accomplish anything so they realized there was no point and will probably stop at the end of this year.
I've grabbed nearly every free game on offer since the program started.
3 of them were worth playing, and I'm only saying that because they were free.
20 pages of free games, a massive heap of shovelware.
Twice I've been given stuff I've refunded on steam for being buggy, only to get it a year and a half later, bugs intact.
Whatever, it's rarely worth checking, Amazon and gog give away way better shit.
I've gotten almost all free games. What usually fricked up my streack was when they switched to daily free games during christmas time.
I've played 2 of them.
Holiday events have broken many a freebie sweep.
I stopped paying attention after the bait-n-switch on death stranding directors cut.
I still have THREE entries of that game in my library because they tried to removed it from my account twice.
I stopped paying attention to them after that.
Yeah but when you tell me "hey log in and get this!" only to take it back from me and give me something inferior, but also fail in this, leaving me three fricking copies of the standard version of a game I already own on a real platform.
It's just stupid.
Frick them.
8 months ago
Anonymous
i will now steal this and use everytime someone says that death stranding is a good game
>Arkham series >Bioshock 1-2 >Dishonored 1 + all dlc(the only good one) >Darkest Dungeon >FNV + all dlc >the metro games >the TR trilogy >pages of comfy indie games
>Unreal Engine barely makes money >Fortnite is on the decline >Every other venture Epic has invested in is a massive failure
>meme
games barely sell on EGS. One of their best-selling titles last year was Saints Row, a game that did so poorly it killed the studio.
Don't forget Tiny Tina was one of their best selling game last year and it was considered a flop compared to Borderlands 3. Also the Evil Dead game just shut down too.
i wonder why?
maybe because they want to market the game to literal fetuses now making the game into roblox with uefn and creative, updates with nothing but skins, no gameplay changes, use collabs as a substitution for content (marvel and star wars slop every season) and worst of all shilling esports and listening to little shits like timmy making the game hyper competitive
>Still acting like Epic can survive off of just Unreal Engine
Unreal makes frick all compared to fortnite, I'm talking $100 million a year verse a couple billion
If they had to rely on just Unreals revenue to prop up their store and acquisitions they would be bankrupt
They have been spending money like crazy the last few years getting exclusives, free games, and buying companies which is only possible because of Fortnite
If they didn't then yeah Unreal could keep their doors open but now they own quite a few companies
I'll be happy with Soulstice
I remember a lot of people on Ganker endorsing it somewhat
Don't get me wrong, I still won't spend a dime on Epic... Because Epic literally rejects my cards for no fricking reason. Tim literally just wants me to use his storefront like I'm pirating free shit online
As a store, there is no doubt that Steam is better and Epic clearly just wants to replace Steam as the #1 platform. It has no desires to make things better for the customer or the developers
Doubt it
Timmy knows that is the only thing his store is good for, minus Fortnite
They might reduce the frequency of freebies perhaps, but to outright remove it? It would be suicide
Maybe they should try releasing some of their old first party titles on the store, pretty sure they already took a lot of steam people would be a lot more accepting of them making their own games exclusive
Not even being good can save you from Epics black hole. EGS fricking sucks at marketing itself.
Today they announced that Tony Hawk is getting a Steam release. And basically every site is running the news like the game is finally getting a PC release. Even though it has been on PC for year - On Epic Game Store. It#s just that nobody knew about it cause nobody buys shit on it.
Same with Sonic Colors. Nobody knew the Remaster was on PC until it left the Epic exclusivity hole. And nobody knows that Dead Space 2 is on PC either.
They spend all their money on buying out old games to give away for free instead of letting people know that shit is available to buy.
>Model builder
Huh this could be fun if its a vr game. Models cost quite a bit now fricking around making&painting shit in 3D to practice/frick around before dropping like 40-100$ on a kit plus paints. Normally I find these maker/diy/sim games moronic but yeah I'd try this out if the model kits are not trash and the "game" is good
they no longer give you a free million dollars for exclusivity either, its like, a lower cut for the first year and a couple hundred thousand. theyre totally floundering and Im wagering the epic game store doesnt have 10 years left in it before its all but abandoned
>hades devs
i prefer what IO did >WE HAVE A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE THE 366th day after our EGS announcement >what is it >we cant say >day comes >WERE ON STEAM NOW AND OUR EXCLUSIVITY CONTRACT EXPIRED!!!
The free games were just a way to get you invested in their ecosystem. Did you really think they would continue to consistently give you good ones now that you're already invested?
From what I've heard, Epic directly helped in porting the KH games over to PC and THAT'S why they have longer (if not perpetual) exclusivity rights to them compared to SE's other Epic'd games.
based Epic saving video games again
what has Valve done lately? nothing?
This is why I don't understand the hate for Tim/Epic. They seriously work so hard and bring so many positives for gamedevs. I would know since I'm a hobby gamedev using UE. They give free assets, 12% royalties-free (0% depending on conditions) using their engine, and really invest into their engine.
You can see such a difference with Steam (does nothing, was simply first in line and is coasting through with huge 30% royalties), or Unity (piece of shit doesn't even update their engine anymore).
I mean I guess gamers don't see the behind the scenes so they don't care about gamedev stuff. But as a gamedev, I can definitely see Tim really loves us.
I wish I liked dusk more for this alone but its absolutely correct. Theres zero reality where Tim "like....-smokes blunt-....just wants to take part in the economy of games" and his posturing behind this makes me frickin sick. Least he could do is be honest and just say "Valve makes a trillion dollars a year, I want to make a trillion dollars a year" all this bullshit was exposed when it was made known that they made that moronic apple protest ad months in advance before the apple controversy
>its about ego
yeah but it most certainly IS about money too. They really tried to take apple to court to forbid them from taking a cut of purchases made in apps hosted on the appstore, a serious fricking nonissue that they illegally tried to skirt around because MUH CUT! but also absolutely refuse to engage in any sort of open source or microsoft alternative conversation. Every single time Tim postures about fricking anything, he has to open his big dumb moronic mouth and lay the smoking gun at your feet that "I dont really have principles, I just like money and need to be the biggest fish" but hes simply not that frickin guy
taking 30% of their hard earned money for hosting an app in their closed down appstore, paired down closed off device, is anything but a non-issue. frick Apple, frick Stevie the Jobs.
I dont get why your panties are in a nicker, what's the real issue here. Gamers get free games, Developers make more money, Timmy the King gets his own platform.
does Valve really deserve their "monopoly", why doesn't Epic? we're talking the guys who grassroots from the bottom, who provided Valve with their game engine they used for several games before they forgot how to count to three. They're not the ones responsible for MTX hat cancer, they're not the ones who greenlit a lot of asset flip projects, they're not the ones pushing that VR gimmick, they're not the ones holding back the AI future.
all dislike of Epic feels so forced at this point in time.
Timmy wanted NFT games, frick off. Not my problem your greedy israelite ceo consistently bets on the wrong horse and cries that everyone else was wrong and his horse was actually the best horse! tiananmen square 1989
soulstice is actually alright. It's like peak anime edge kino. It would be better if it didn't lean so hard on it's fricking stupid color coded enemy homosexualry, but at least half the game is fun.
Unreal Engine is a drop in the bucket compared to Fortnite, it's good for their overall business strategy but couldn't sustain their spending habits over the last few years
Unreal makes around $100 million a year versus Fortnites $2-3 billion a year
They lived up to making their store appealing for devs but Steam has got too much of a stranglehold for customers. And that's simply because they are far superior than all of their competitors, not just Epic. It would be a good idea for them to put more resources in improving their store as they've somehow already surpassed other competitors such as GOG, EA and Ubisoft simply by putting more effort than them.
its never been lack of competition thats given steam the clear lead, its lack of decent competition. You wouldnt complain that Napa has a monopoly on autoparts when its only competition are the homosexuals at oreilly who treat you like shit but guarantee more money per sale to the manufacturers, also you arent allowed to use shopping carts for some fricked up reason
>not shitposting
you do realize that companies have openly talked about shitposting as a legit marketing strategy
right? like it's not 1998 anymore they've adapted lol
>Steam homosexuals too concerned about the $ they wasted on their steam accounts complaining about FREE games
every thread, cost-sunk fallacy homosexuals
>no one wants to buy indieshit garbage
stop the presses
beggars can't be choosers
Could be worse, PS+ is a paid service and you got Saint's Row the same month they hiked the price.
what a baffling reboot
I'm not sure how they managed to make me bored just in the intro cutscene, the "crazy" fire fight after turned it into a very quick delete. Didn't even get to the much talked about "student debt" line.
it's obvious that the ip was over and they needed to move on. too bad their new game was trash though. maybe if they pleaded with other publishers they could have got tossed a superhero ip, it seemed like it was their time to shine on that front.
Anon did Agents of Mayhem completely pass you by? I guess that was more like Overwatch heroes then classic superhero ones, and it also sucked.
you saying you liked that game? lol. they should have made a recognizable superhero game instead.
Come on now, no need to say something truly hateful like You must've liked AoM. Let's keep this place a bit civil, gay.
Go on lad, take it. This one's on Tim!
thanks tim!
>run your mouth as the resident egs shill
>have to keep your mouth shut as your steam launch sells 100:1
pottery
He got fired from Coffee Stain too. All that shilling for nothing LOL
soulstice looks cool, I might grab it
thanks for the info daily steamie thread spammer!
No one talkee about steam yet you moronic frick
>surely he made this thread just to have a civil talk about the epic games store...
>surely he can defend epic games store without resorting to whataboutisms...
>baby's first day on Ganker on an Epic/Steam related thread...
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>still reposting this shit
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>yawn
Cringe.
They probably finally caught on that free games weren't going to increase sales.
Model Builder seems cool.
>Old EGS: "You want Dishonored man? Sure thing. Here's Death Stranding too. How about every Batman game ever made?"
>New EGS: "Pwa--Pwease grab our free indie titles... no you haven't heard of them before... SHUT UP, THEY'RE CHEAP TO LICENSE, ALRIGHT?"
>free games during christmas versus free games given on 26 of september
>I will now rage on a steamie bait thread for funsies
xd
Soulstice is kino
I have had Soulstice on my wishlist for years but didn't get around to trying it so this is great actually
Can't wait to claim it then forget I even have it on EGS
It's always like this unless they're doing a big sale
Didn't you read the news about them stopping the paid exclusive thing? They don't give studios money anymore or guanranteed sales. Best they do now is taking a 0% during the first six months if you make your game Epic exclusive. Timmy literally ran out of money.
>Best they do now is taking a 0% during the first six months if you make your game ~~*~~*Epic exclusive*~~*~~))
source?
(I already know you're wrong)
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/introducing-the-epic-first-run-program
oh cool shit, so on top on not asking for the unreal engine fee if you also release your game on egs they also give you 100% on egs sales if you make it exclusive to their store
shit, guess I was wrong, they are pushing the store very aggresively
This is literally worse than the previous deal.
Before that program Epic literally guranteed you sales. You make your game exclusive for x months and Epic buy hundreds of thousands of copies of your game in return.
Now you only keep 100% of the money that you make on Epic but no sales are guranteed. And keeping 100% of zero copies sold is zero dollars.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhMake Good Games.
Not even being good can save you from Epics black hole. EGS fricking sucks at marketing itself.
Today they announced that Tony Hawk is getting a Steam release. And basically every site is running the news like the game is finally getting a PC release. Even though it has been on PC for year - On Epic Game Store. It#s just that nobody knew about it cause nobody buys shit on it.
Same with Sonic Colors. Nobody knew the Remaster was on PC until it left the Epic exclusivity hole. And nobody knows that Dead Space 2 is on PC either.
They spend all their money on buying out old games to give away for free instead of letting people know that shit is available to buy.
*Dead Island 2
you're too dumb to realize this but there's hardly any gaming news to report on
>le zero copies sold meme
xd
>it's a worse deal
i don't know what previous deal you're talking about, I only added the shit about the unreal engine fees, but if what you say is true then I guess it is a worse deal, sure
>meme
games barely sell on EGS. One of their best-selling titles last year was Saints Row, a game that did so poorly it killed the studio.
>i will now jump from le miden (miden means zero) meme to a "barely" meme. also I will use saints row as an example on why my meme is a nice meme!
it is a nice meme bro...
>tim offered snk a half million copies for samurai shodown exclusivity
>they turned him down
But they did accept exclusivity for it in 2020?
oh right. wonder if timmy secured the bag after all, or what that was about.
No idea either, my guess is tim upped the deal and they took it
These are fricking old shill talking points from 2019/2020, update your script
SamSho did have a year of EGS exclusivity, the classic collection came out on Steam the same day if I remember right.
>they also give you 100% on egs sales if you make it exclusive to their store
100% from 0 is still 0.
>100% of 0
xd
>r/theydidthemath
it would be crazy not to
Fortnite is finally dying- so yeah that's the result
They can no longer afford to beg the user's attention
Them ending their welfare program that only lazy c**t developers used was already a sign that they're running out of non-service oriented incentives to draw customers and devs in.
PLEASE SARS REDEEM THE INDIESLOP
Soulstice is pretty good. You should play it.
They gave away a good amount of high profile games including gta v and it didn't accomplish anything so they realized there was no point and will probably stop at the end of this year.
I've grabbed nearly every free game on offer since the program started.
3 of them were worth playing, and I'm only saying that because they were free.
20 pages of free games, a massive heap of shovelware.
Twice I've been given stuff I've refunded on steam for being buggy, only to get it a year and a half later, bugs intact.
Whatever, it's rarely worth checking, Amazon and gog give away way better shit.
I've gotten almost all free games. What usually fricked up my streack was when they switched to daily free games during christmas time.
I've played 2 of them.
streeeaACK
Yep.
Holiday events have broken many a freebie sweep.
I stopped paying attention after the bait-n-switch on death stranding directors cut.
I still have THREE entries of that game in my library because they tried to removed it from my account twice.
I stopped paying attention to them after that.
the ocarina of time of walking sims
Yeah but when you tell me "hey log in and get this!" only to take it back from me and give me something inferior, but also fail in this, leaving me three fricking copies of the standard version of a game I already own on a real platform.
It's just stupid.
Frick them.
i will now steal this and use everytime someone says that death stranding is a good game
I guess they eventually realized that handing out free shit doesn't attract paying customers.
They probably realized there is diminishing returns on putting good games for free up.
>soulstice
Nice, been meaning to pirate it one of these days
>Arkham series
>Bioshock 1-2
>Dishonored 1 + all dlc(the only good one)
>Darkest Dungeon
>FNV + all dlc
>the metro games
>the TR trilogy
>pages of comfy indie games
I have nothing to complain about
At least it is free, how many games has steam given you last month?
be nice to steamies bro, both stores are essentially israelite shit made to shekel farming
uh oh daddy tim ran out of money
>is the unreal engine and fortnite company bankrupt
moron
Bankrupt no. But Timmy clearly isn't willing to put any more money into his trainwreck of a store.
>2 more weeks
>Unreal Engine barely makes money
>Fortnite is on the decline
>Every other venture Epic has invested in is a massive failure
Don't forget Tiny Tina was one of their best selling game last year and it was considered a flop compared to Borderlands 3. Also the Evil Dead game just shut down too.
>Evil Dead game
lol it was a multiplayer? I had no idea
Sifu got a lot of hate for that exclusivity.
Turns out epic really, really needed that.
I picked it up when it came to steam, great fun.
Sifu seems to be the most pirated game at skidrow
Not surprised
>fortnite not number 1
IT'S OVER
i wonder why?
maybe because they want to market the game to literal fetuses now making the game into roblox with uefn and creative, updates with nothing but skins, no gameplay changes, use collabs as a substitution for content (marvel and star wars slop every season) and worst of all shilling esports and listening to little shits like timmy making the game hyper competitive
>being this mad at a kiddie's game
go back to pubg poojeet
>poojeet this, poojeet that
is this the moment some NA cringe lord will finally explain to me, as an europoor, why NA is so obsessed with India? O.O
>not being obsessed with the new world superpower
ngmi, we post about india because were jealous
>new world superpower
more like poo world pooperpower
What is this? A rank system of most popular games on the platform?
Why the frick is Epic the best of the best when the store has Epic in its name?
Fricking morons, I swear.
>least deranged ESL steamie
>Still acting like Epic can survive off of just Unreal Engine
Unreal makes frick all compared to fortnite, I'm talking $100 million a year verse a couple billion
If they had to rely on just Unreals revenue to prop up their store and acquisitions they would be bankrupt
>$100 million a year can't keep a company afloat when operating costs are basically nothing
lmao
They have been spending money like crazy the last few years getting exclusives, free games, and buying companies which is only possible because of Fortnite
If they didn't then yeah Unreal could keep their doors open but now they own quite a few companies
I'll be happy with Soulstice
I remember a lot of people on Ganker endorsing it somewhat
Don't get me wrong, I still won't spend a dime on Epic... Because Epic literally rejects my cards for no fricking reason. Tim literally just wants me to use his storefront like I'm pirating free shit online
As a store, there is no doubt that Steam is better and Epic clearly just wants to replace Steam as the #1 platform. It has no desires to make things better for the customer or the developers
you better enjoy the free games now, they are going to be stopping the free games in 2024
Doubt it
Timmy knows that is the only thing his store is good for, minus Fortnite
They might reduce the frequency of freebies perhaps, but to outright remove it? It would be suicide
There were documents in the Apple court case that said they were ending the program in 2024, but hey plans change. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I haven't been enjoying the free games, it's actual garbage.
Look at that shit.
Prey, Yooka-Laylee, Fallout 1 - NV, Tomb Raiders, Death Stranding, GTA5, Bioshock 1 - 3, yeah I'm thinking I'm enjoying them.
>lost count of the number of AAA titles I got for free
>still haven't made any purchases
maybe they just gave up
Their plan moving forward seems to be
and first party publishing, which has been pretty disastrous so far
Maybe they should try releasing some of their old first party titles on the store, pretty sure they already took a lot of steam people would be a lot more accepting of them making their own games exclusive
>ahem, yeah sure.... tiny tina was popular and shit... also sifu as well...
>HAHA!!!!! it's le piracy!!!!!!!
>"100% of 0 is still 0™"
EPIC BROS??? OUR RESPONSE???
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2395210/Tony_Hawks_Pro_Skater_1__2/
We still have Kingdom Hearts.
what nonsense are you sa-
>it's real
WHAT THE FRICK?
nah, its on 1337x
>thread devolves into sports rivalry bait by usage of store exclusives
classic
>Model builder
Huh this could be fun if its a vr game. Models cost quite a bit now fricking around making&painting shit in 3D to practice/frick around before dropping like 40-100$ on a kit plus paints. Normally I find these maker/diy/sim games moronic but yeah I'd try this out if the model kits are not trash and the "game" is good
they no longer give you a free million dollars for exclusivity either, its like, a lower cut for the first year and a couple hundred thousand. theyre totally floundering and Im wagering the epic game store doesnt have 10 years left in it before its all but abandoned
After what the Hades devs pulled, that was never happening again.
>hades devs
i prefer what IO did
>WE HAVE A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE THE 366th day after our EGS announcement
>what is it
>we cant say
>day comes
>WERE ON STEAM NOW AND OUR EXCLUSIVITY CONTRACT EXPIRED!!!
What basedness did the hades dev pull?
Better yet I really know frick all devs have done to take their bag and dab as the zoomers say on EGS.
List some good ones Ganker
you literally can't win lol
>give free million dollars
>YOU CAN'T DO THAT!!!!!!
>stop giving million dollars
>EPIC IS DOOMED™, 10 MORE YEARS!
well noone is organically using egs
>no one is using egs organically
well I am, I use both steam and egs, guess you are just wrong mate 😉
damn ya got me.
that is how it works when people type shit like ~~*((no one*~~*~~, ~~*~~*((100% of 0*~~*~~), etc, etc...
I'm genuinely interested in the forest quartet, I do not mind a walking novel game if it's free.
model builder is super comfy
This is the only good post in the thread. I'm glad you play videogames, anon
I don't really give a shit. I've personally made timmy tencent shell out 2.5 grand for my account and spent $0
>is the chinese government bankrupt
Like, people have been killed for chatting shit against Xi bro.
the poo poo jokes are getting stale fr fr
when is the next cringe political debate between team left and team right NA bros? I kinda enjoy those
>the poo poo jokes are getting stale fr fr
Just like the poo on the streets of India.
frickin gottem
soulstice is great. one of the most faithful dmc clones I've seen.
don't worry, prey will be back soon and another one of those cheap party games
The free games were just a way to get you invested in their ecosystem. Did you really think they would continue to consistently give you good ones now that you're already invested?
safe to say KH also got a 3 years exclusive?
im curious to see why kh got such a lengthy exclusivity deal and FF7 didnt
From what I've heard, Epic directly helped in porting the KH games over to PC and THAT'S why they have longer (if not perpetual) exclusivity rights to them compared to SE's other Epic'd games.
based Epic saving video games again
what has Valve done lately? nothing?
Timmy, come on. This is sad.
This is why I don't understand the hate for Tim/Epic. They seriously work so hard and bring so many positives for gamedevs. I would know since I'm a hobby gamedev using UE. They give free assets, 12% royalties-free (0% depending on conditions) using their engine, and really invest into their engine.
You can see such a difference with Steam (does nothing, was simply first in line and is coasting through with huge 30% royalties), or Unity (piece of shit doesn't even update their engine anymore).
I mean I guess gamers don't see the behind the scenes so they don't care about gamedev stuff. But as a gamedev, I can definitely see Tim really loves us.
tim....we get it
it's not even they dont see behind the scenes neither, worse they just swallow up memes because they are so brain damaged.
I FRICKING KNEEL BOOMER CHADS
https://twitter.com/duskdev/status/1705948957233299948?s=46&t=vUjzZbiZua6a9fsRr57DdQ
I wish I liked dusk more for this alone but its absolutely correct. Theres zero reality where Tim "like....-smokes blunt-....just wants to take part in the economy of games" and his posturing behind this makes me frickin sick. Least he could do is be honest and just say "Valve makes a trillion dollars a year, I want to make a trillion dollars a year" all this bullshit was exposed when it was made known that they made that moronic apple protest ad months in advance before the apple controversy
he's already rich as frick so this is a thing about ego.
Funny thing is that his legacy when he dies is going to be that one epic schizo
>its about ego
yeah but it most certainly IS about money too. They really tried to take apple to court to forbid them from taking a cut of purchases made in apps hosted on the appstore, a serious fricking nonissue that they illegally tried to skirt around because MUH CUT! but also absolutely refuse to engage in any sort of open source or microsoft alternative conversation. Every single time Tim postures about fricking anything, he has to open his big dumb moronic mouth and lay the smoking gun at your feet that "I dont really have principles, I just like money and need to be the biggest fish" but hes simply not that frickin guy
taking 30% of their hard earned money for hosting an app in their closed down appstore, paired down closed off device, is anything but a non-issue. frick Apple, frick Stevie the Jobs.
I dont get why your panties are in a nicker, what's the real issue here. Gamers get free games, Developers make more money, Timmy the King gets his own platform.
does Valve really deserve their "monopoly", why doesn't Epic? we're talking the guys who grassroots from the bottom, who provided Valve with their game engine they used for several games before they forgot how to count to three. They're not the ones responsible for MTX hat cancer, they're not the ones who greenlit a lot of asset flip projects, they're not the ones pushing that VR gimmick, they're not the ones holding back the AI future.
all dislike of Epic feels so forced at this point in time.
Frick epic
Frick Tim
Frick chinks
simple as
Timmy wanted NFT games, frick off. Not my problem your greedy israelite ceo consistently bets on the wrong horse and cries that everyone else was wrong and his horse was actually the best horse! tiananmen square 1989
literally nothing wrong with NFT's. at least there's not content gated behind MTX. greedy fat frick Gabe
is Unreal engine a blessing or one of the worst things that happened to gaming?
Third party engines are cancer. Frick Unreal and Unity.
Why do you think that?
>gives shit for free
>"waaah why are they giving us this shit for free!!"
soulstice is actually alright. It's like peak anime edge kino. It would be better if it didn't lean so hard on it's fricking stupid color coded enemy homosexualry, but at least half the game is fun.
post em
I still don't understand how they didn't give up on the free games yet. No way epic is profitable
You just can't imagine how much money fortnite makes on top of unreal engine. Timmy is even richer than gaben
Unreal Engine is a drop in the bucket compared to Fortnite, it's good for their overall business strategy but couldn't sustain their spending habits over the last few years
Unreal makes around $100 million a year versus Fortnites $2-3 billion a year
>Timmy is even richer than gaben
he could afford to give all users $100 a week for many many years, but it would look bad to investors.
They lived up to making their store appealing for devs but Steam has got too much of a stranglehold for customers. And that's simply because they are far superior than all of their competitors, not just Epic. It would be a good idea for them to put more resources in improving their store as they've somehow already surpassed other competitors such as GOG, EA and Ubisoft simply by putting more effort than them.
its never been lack of competition thats given steam the clear lead, its lack of decent competition. You wouldnt complain that Napa has a monopoly on autoparts when its only competition are the homosexuals at oreilly who treat you like shit but guarantee more money per sale to the manufacturers, also you arent allowed to use shopping carts for some fricked up reason
the shopping carts is a straight up lie, there's obviously a shopping cart, and you obviously are clueless and parroting memes
Well more people would know they got a shopping cart (In fricking 2022) if they actually used it for more then claiming free games
I've never understood shopping carts on Steam or Epic, who the frick buys more than one game at a time
Have you never bought games during sales?
Or are you just parroting Epic shill talking points back in 2019?
I buy one game, I play the game. Who hasn't partook in sales. Are you a redditor who posts their "hauls" to social media, fricking cringe. Good goy.
Soulstice was Ganker's favorite game for 2022, newbie
Why is it that I get that this is distinctly genuine shilling and not shitposting?
Because it is
Shitposters at least are entertaining to read
>not shitposting
you do realize that companies have openly talked about shitposting as a legit marketing strategy
right? like it's not 1998 anymore they've adapted lol
>Steam homosexuals too concerned about the $ they wasted on their steam accounts complaining about FREE games
every thread, cost-sunk fallacy homosexuals
>omgosh what a totally legit ubisoft leak, it came from an "anon" who said moron so it can't be an employee!
the absolute state of Ganker
Epic always has periods of shit "literal who" games followed by godlike freebies like Bioshock and Death Stranding.
The only good games they give out are during christmas. The rest of the year it's literal who trash shit.
I've got like 40 free EGS games that I've never even installed.
I don't see the issue. The games Tim gives away are being sold at the exact amount they're worth.
a shill who says buy less games, this makes complete sense to the delusional