Garbage Devs talking down to people against the EGS... another one not to buy or at a deep deep sale.
Just download it for free instead of buying it. They don't need your money any more.
Epic have already gone from giving away one game a month, to one game every two weeks, to weekly, and now two games a week. Why buy anything on the store? The entire library will be free soon enough.
If they need the money to keep their doors open and you don't want to buy on EGS then just wait.
They are a husband and wife team with ~1200 patreon subscribers, who had already signed a publishing deal with Double Fine.
They split from Double Fine about eight weeks ago because they wanted to "self-publish" the game (were in contact with Epic about a deal).
Wait, they dropped the Publisher and THEN question whether they can pay the rent?
It sounds like they were already in contact with Epic when they decided to drop Double Fine and "self-publish" the game, as the announcement ended with: "I should hopefully have some even more exciting news in a few weeks so keep a lookout for that..."
You do realize that console gaming is the same or worst?
The difference is that they're used to it, and they accept it.
No-one is complaining unless it's
having to sign into a free Bethesda.net account to play Doom on your Switch… 🤷♀️
More and more I'm convinced that it's just a vocal minority. The people who don't care don't post, and the people who think it's a net positive are tired of rehashing it and have moved on.
It's more that a lot of PC gamers have left this site entirely now or stay out of anything related to EGS because the moderation was doing nothing about trolls "just asking questions" and banning the wrong people.
Krejlooc was recently banned for a heated response to unfounded accusations of racism in one of the
Tetris Effect threads, while the moderation team felt it was not necessary to even
warn the accuser. Complaining about this resulted in myself being banned. Still nothing for the troll stirring up shit.
The mods encourage it; it's like they're trying to make these discussions as toxic as possible so they can point any say "look how toxic PC gamers are".
Whenever someone says "I still don't understand" in these topics, just take that to mean "I haven't even bothered trying to understand" and move on, not even worth responding half the time they just make their drive-by and slink off.
They are trolls and should not be responded to. Unfortunately it's difficult to ignore.
I can understand people not caring about the EGS.
I don't know why everyone who doesn't care, seems to dead set on misrepresenting the arguments of people who do care though.
PC gamers had it too good for too long. Anything which upsets them is okay with me.
Signed,
Shitposters, Trolls, ResetEra moderation team.