Carzy Zarx’s PC Gaming Emporium - Catch Up on All the Latest PC Gaming Related News

[Chazore]

Zkuq said:

For me, it's mostly buying exclusivities and not really doing anything at all for the benefit of gamers. I might have been willing to forgive Epic for the exclusivities had they actually offered a good service in return, but Epic's platform is really barebones. For some reason, all they've done is moneyhatting and the absolutely minimum to improve their service. I don't see any commitment from Epic, so I should I commit to Epic

Also, Tencent's massive share in Epic makes me concerned about freedom of speech in games if Epic ever becomes a really big player in the market.

To be fair, this is the same company that regarded us as pirates (much like Ubisoft, surprise, surprise how both of them treat PC gamers), claimed "you won't find a game like Gears of War on PC, but you might find something on Facebook gaming". It took them 2 years to get a shopping cart and Tim claimed that the storefront costs to make it the best they can be weren't worth dumping into over the money hatting (Working with studios as he called it on Twitter).

Also this damning piece of evidenced is all I needed from that Apple court case to know they hadn't learned a damn thing since they left PC gaming (the Anti-Epic section in particular). 

Btw, there is no freedom of speech on EGS, because their "user review" system is neutered in a way that it "randomly" picks user reviews based on scores, meaning it will only ever pick the higher review scores, not the negative ones, and even then, the way they have worded 1 star makes it still sound good, not bad, which is enough to tell me that their review system is completely fucked and not at all designed for us the users, but for the studios/publishers (Publishers/studios can also 100% opt out of even allowing user reviews, which is a massive anti-consumer red flag). 

Last edited by Chazore - on 16 June 2024