O NONONO O NONONOLol.
Devs didnt even know about the EGS deal:
Like clockwork. But it's "good for the devs"
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PC Gaming Era | March 2019 - The Ides of Smarch
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Like clockwork. But it's "good for the devs"
So, uhm, how's the Windows Store these days?
Goooood? Is it good?
Is that the Obsidian Slack or what?
Goooood? Is it good?
What am I looking at here?Lol.
Devs didnt even know about the EGS deal:
Is that the Obsidian Slack or what?
People say it got better but then it just looks the same to me and people still complain about the same issues.
You know, for all the problems with the Windows Store and UWP, at least that was something that might have hurt the industry only on the long run at the worst case scenario. Epic is hurting the industry right now.
Right now, the Windows Store is just a crapy store that does no harm otherwise.
Right now, the Windows Store is just a crapy store that does no harm otherwise.
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Discord. Maybe the official server for the game or something with a developer.
Same here. If they want my business, they can find me on Steam, GOG, Humble and Itch.io.
Valve could announce a 1% margin and people would still find a way to spin it negatively.
Microsoft isn't publishing TOW, so it's not gonna be a GamePass game.
The fact that it's also coming to the WinStore is as big a concession as anyone's gonna get out of this mess.
(Not enough to drive me to upgrade to Win 10 though, so I don't really care- my plan is to build a new rig once Cyberpunk has a release date/next gen console specs are out in wild. I'll upgrade then)
It was competing for the "Excellence in Narrative" award. :p
I am pretty sure it was ranked last in this category.
I agree that it most likely won't change the attitude of pubs and devs, but Valve should show them that there's a repercussion for shit like false advertising, they're running business after all and sometimes they should act like a business.
Yeah, I'm not bothering with THQ Nordic games right now.
Though I'm just about ready to call off my tentative boycott of Microsoft/THQ publishing collabs on account of there being no evidence of THQ getting any cut of the digital PC sales.
Vengeance Bundle on Fanatical ($4.99) includes Distant Worlds: Universe, a historical low for the game.
It's not much of a looker, but it's 100% the most deep & complex 4X space game ever made.
Think Dwarf Fortress of the 4X genre.
The one thing that they can do is to make games sell on Steam, more and more. If the loss of not being on Steam outweighs the money given by Epic, fewer developers will accept that one year bullshit with Epic.
I played it for a while and I like the automation features, but I keep getting to the point where I end up automating everything out of laziness or lack of understanding/interest and I end up just watching the game play itself.
It's a great option to have though, allowing yourself to focus only on the 4X aspects you actually care about.
I'll be digging in this weekend, but from what I've been told the best way to learn the game is to automate everything and just explore as the captain of a single ship.
Then you slowly take off the training wheels one by one. Toggling back on a single feature at a time, as you grasp each new game mechanic.
Because Era is mostly console people. And they are ok with closed platforms/walled gardens.
The thread about "crappy games not being on Epic store" is exhausting. I straight up asked two posters to stop mischaracterizing PC gaming Era. Doubt that will happen.
I think pubs/devs already understand that their games will most likely sell more on Steam, it's just that, for them, short-term gains from EGS outweigh long-term success on Steam, the way I see it, they think that they can simply milk Epic and year later throw a little PR bs to calm fans and crawl back to Steam while pretending that they care for the customers.
I don't see how it can change without Valve doing rather unpopular things (permanently delisting timed exclusives is one way to assure that pubs/devs receive the message).
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To buy Sekiro, or to not buy Sekiro...
Anyone know if it has ultrawide support?
Still haven't finished any of the Souls games either.
Anyone know if it has ultrawide support?
Still haven't finished any of the Souls games either.
One thing about this sad state of things regarding EGS is how... inevitable it feels. I mean, it's like fighting a moving snowball, people in general don't care about their rights as a consumer and can't barely distinguish store names and company names. So many people at work call EGS "Fortnite Steam". For them, in the real world it's all the same and it's hard to argue with them about this. And these people are the vast majority of consumers. I feel more disconected with real world videogame consumers at each passing year, I barely know what Fortnite is. I barely knew what PUBG was, that was all my friends and work colleagues spoke about 2 years ago and nowadays no one talks about it. Yeah nowadays I feel like an old man yelling at the clouds:D
are primal and wildlands free on EGS? Or just for sale on EGS. I wont play them for years but I may aswell redeem on my recently hacked EGS account if they are free just in case they arent bundled by the time I play them.
It does not. You're gonna have to wait an hour or two for someone to mod it in.
Disappointing. Thought they had it figured out since Dark Souls Remastered had it, but I guess that was all QLOC.
Dark Souls port was a mess unless they fixed it since i played. Durant literally had to make the game playable. Or is Dark Souls Remastered a different and better port? I cant keep up.
Not surprised to see confirmation that Obsidian had no idea about the deal. It's Metro all over again.
Remastered is a better port that added 60 FPS among other things.
Argh, that's disappointing yet not at all surprising I guess. Will cross my fingers that the wizards over at WSGF have a fix in time for tomorrow.
I don't use itchio a lot but I definitely have a lot of respect for it's existence, especially after hearing that they don't even make profits with it.
The difference of reaction between here and the outside is painstakingly different.
Yeah, I'm done with gaming side.
PC discussions were better on gaf tbh, we had less trolling.
So Sekiro, uh, seems like a good game. The best discount looks like the one on GMG (barring CDKeys obviously). Really don't know if I should dive in or not. Probably gonna wait for wsgf to release an ultrawide mod
I think this EPIC shitshow would have been horrible even on GAF
No way. And I don't think it's mostly console only people. It's people just not caring and not wanting to have any kind of discussion about it. "I want to play my games, don't care about anything else"
There was a great story about Itch and a game called "A good snowman is hard to build", but I'm having problems finding it.
From what I remember, at launch the dev of the game had this crazy idea where the game would have a discount proportional to how cold it was outside. He contacted Leaf because he couldn't find any sale API which would let him code something like this up.
There was no such API, but after getting the request, Leaf just said "sure" and started working on it. The API went live a few days later.
From what I remember, at launch the dev of the game had this crazy idea where the game would have a discount proportional to how cold it was outside. He contacted Leaf because he couldn't find any sale API which would let him code something like this up.
There was no such API, but after getting the request, Leaf just said "sure" and started working on it. The API went live a few days later.
I asked one person what competition EGS is bringing to the PC market. He said "curation, games, and a store. That's good enough for me." They literally just want a reason to shit on Valve. That's all it is.
Yeah, Stellaris is so gd sexy top to bottom. The sights and sounds, really good writing too.
But...it's like a puddle in the depth dept. compared to the possibility space found in DW:U.
Can you imagine if they brought both teams together to create some uber-hybid of the two games, pulling on the greatest strengths of each? Man, that would be something.
TBH, I kinda wish there was an Epic OT spin-off thread for PC Era where all the anger and frustration could be channeled.
Like I totally get that PC Gaming Era thread is just about the only "safe space" to talk Epic with zero trolling, etc. But man is it also depressing to read through page after page focused on the topic.
Sometimes you just wanna talk PC games sans the industry drama, dig?
It would get easier to hate on Epic if it wasn't for the fact that Valve doesn't let me pay with PayPal and Epic does.
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