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Kotaku: Epic Games Store will block your account from making purchases if you buy too many games too quickly
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We're well aware of that.
The issue is that it's a problem of their own creation by offering products for direct purchase (unlike say...Riot points?) without a basic fucking shopping cart. If they had a shopping cart, people would be making 1 big purchase instead of 6 separate ones that are just begging to trigger a fraud alert.
I mean the launcher doesn't even have a shopping cart feature so this isn't so shocking lmfao. What a mess of a situation. Should of have been tons of positive press for Epic too.
If a shopping cart is critical to you, then this seems like valid criticism! My post was only to give some background as to the likely motivations, not to dismiss criticism. Entirely agree that if you are going to gate purchases in any way, it's preferable that you disclose that to a customer who might take that action.
"I dont need a shopping cart anyways so in your face! Now excuse me while I email Epic and call my bank to clear this up."
That is a pretty hilarious solution and the right thing to do to protect from fraud.
But you thought this would of been tested internally and either add a warning to purchases adding a few minutes cool down not allowing you to make the purchase or you know the shopping cart would be nice consider pretty major online retailer goes through that cart, detail, buy process which is a social norm never mind an industry one.
Hopefully they'll get it sorted soon but there current communication about the issue is pretty poor.
But you thought this would of been tested internally and either add a warning to purchases adding a few minutes cool down not allowing you to make the purchase or you know the shopping cart would be nice consider pretty major online retailer goes through that cart, detail, buy process which is a social norm never mind an industry one.
Hopefully they'll get it sorted soon but there current communication about the issue is pretty poor.
Epic Store the shit show that just keeps on giving. How anyone can fucking defend it is beyond me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same thing happened to me with my Switch just after I got it. I bought four or five games and got locked out, had to call Nintendo.
EGS missing a shopping cart feels like such clutching at straws bullshit, like seriously its not even that bothersome to buy each game individually. There are many more important features missing from EGS, both complicated and basic, than a fucking shopping cart people.
Its good to see their antifraud system works though. Imagine spinning that into a negative story.
Its good to see their antifraud system works though. Imagine spinning that into a negative story.
I'm getting more than a little fatigued by this type of story. It just feels like pointless piling on because it's the in thing. I believe twitter person that his account got locked. That sucks, but hopefully it's a quick fix if he contacts support. If this isn't happening to most people then I just don't get the big deal? I think it's actually better to have a few false positives than no anti fraud measures
At least on the eshop you can add money to your account, so you can buy multiple games with only one credit card transaction.
It's a negative story because it's a false positive that only occurs due to the stores lack of a shopping cart.
If steam would work like this id have to contact the support every other week
"Legitimate people getting locked out of buying games for no reason - working as intended and imagine spinning this positive thing into a negative."
Do you happen to be a professional gymnastic by any chance?
As if that has not happened with Steam, Origin, uPlay, PSN, XBL & eShop ever right?
People get false flagged in online shopping systems all the fucking time, regardless whether there is a shopping cart or not. A simple google will prove my point here.
The algorithm is obviously not as simple as 'buy 5 games'. We even have people in here saying their account wasn't locked out after 5 purchases. It's more complex than that.
Given how targeted Epic accounts are for fraud (I was getting emails constantly about people trying to access my account), I can see why they'd be a bit more aggressive with this kind of stuff. Still, this is just a mess and not excusable.
Are you honestly saying PSN or Steam for example has this same problem in the same scope?
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The store is very popular.
Only angry nerds dislike it for some reason no one can understand.
What scope? We have 1 person on twitter who was blocked, there is no scope. There is not some mass fraud flag exodus happening like you seem to think there is.
Literally google "(insert any online store here) flagged for fraud" and you will find plenty accounts of legitimate people being flagged by the system. Its even happened with me in uPlay and it was resolved in minutes, you don't see me tearing down the walls though do you?
"Nintendo doesn't do it either" isn't a great defense, you know that right?
Hell, the Switch eShop launches with a search bar and has a wishlist feature, so congrats to Epic for officially being more behind the times than fucking Nintendo
The plethora of reasons have been vocalized quite clearly. It's just that people with a Valve hate-on and those who buy into Epic's messaging don't try to understand them.
LOL
Why would they want to punish people for buying a lot of games? I get it's for fraud, but still, you think that they've could've done better.
Like having a shopping cart option in which you can buy games at one time, with one transaction.
Why would they want to punish people for buying a lot of games? I get it's for fraud, but still, you think that they've could've done better.
Like having a shopping cart option in which you can buy games at one time, with one transaction.
The discussions around the EGS sure are popular. Good thing you showed those pesky nerds with their facts and opinions whose boss in here /s
Maybe you're able to understand some of those reasons if you try to put some thought into it.
Well, you seem to be very in the know about the gaming wo-
hmmm.
They could have set up a woocommerce cart in about 2 hours.
Kyle Jenner got to a billion dollars on her little wordpress site with a woocommerce cart. Y tu, Epic?
CliffyB called up his old homeboy Tim and asked for a favor.
Pat banned from all future EGS!
./s
Pat banned from all future EGS!
./s
Have they released any promised features lately? Weren't cloud saves supposed to be Feb? Are those out yet?
Lmao oh pat , hes such a giant baby I bet his reaction when he got the message was hilarious. I can perfectly picture him throwing a tantrum
