God-tier post. I don't know who you are or where you live, but if we ever meet in real life, I'm buying you a beer
Ah, sorry, they haven't pulled it yet. My mistake.
They also removed the random ingame drops and replaced them with an ingame shop where you have to buy everything for credits.
Probably not, this decision is probably based on the relative number of sales vs the time spent developing for the Linux/Mac platform. For example, there were 10.5m copies sold as of March 2017. If Psyonix is spending 10% of their time fixing bugs for say ~100k users, then the writing was on the wall. If the Switch userbase is close to 1m though and they make many in-app purchases, then it's worth the effort.
Also since I made this post I realized the Switch version probably doesn't use opengl but instead NVIDIAs graphics API.
I bet they didn't tell Valve anything and just said to ask them for refunds knowing full well that their system will deny them because of the general 2 hour rule, and thus making the Evil Monopoly look bad lmao
Epic isn't an indie company, don't give me that
Those are only the basic items. Before the changes you had different ways of getting a special item of your choice: buy keys to open chests, buy the item from the Steam Market, have it gifted to you, trade with others. Now your options are: buy credits for $4,99 or $9,99 or $24,99 or $49,99. Also there is no way to earn a single credit without spending real money. Oh, and also of course you aren't able to sell, gift or trade your item later on for anything else.
I have the Epic Games Launcher open in macOS right now, and Fortnite is also installed.
Is there a (good) reason why you keep completely ignoring that you could trade items with friends, that you could gift items, that you could buy items on the marketplace? I mean, if you play on PS4, Xbox or Switch: sure, there was never a Steam Marketplace so nothing was lost. But I think most people here are talking about the PC version.
This is all still possible is what I'm saying. You're just misinformed. And trading markets exist on all platforms.
I take that as a "no, I'm not playing the PC version". Thanks.
Imagine hating EGS so much you make a hard argument for loot boxes in an open game economy
They're also either lying or just don't know what they're talking about. Literally every part of what you quoted is false.
Proton is double edged sword here. It is also the reason why I expect devs not to bother with Linux native version in the future and reduce the support of it. Why waste resources for 1% of Steam gamers if Valve gave them a workaround.
That just shows why GaaS model sucks. You never actually buy a game in the first place.
Could you point out where I made an argument for loot boxes? Also it's kinda ironic that the formerly open game economy got closed off, isn't it?
The post I quoted.
I'm arguing for the Steam Marketplace which allows you to buy, trade or gift items. Ways so people can aquire items without having to spend any money ingame.
