The Epic Games Store And What To Expect

I don't, this -is- Dihm we're talking about. Of course it'd have to be a right angle. It's the only correct option. *nod*

 

Anyone have a copy of the old "throw fun on the pinball machine and take your belt off" meme?

 

So I tried to claim one of the Twitch Prime games and it requires activation on the Epic store.



Yeah I can see now why adding a shopping cart has been such an insurmountable hurdle for these fucknuggets.

 

Thats some impressive shit right there.

 

Maybe their company charter actually reads - the part you can't view publically - "to spread evil, misery and advance frustration among gamers".

"We raise capital in order to achieve these goals"

 

I'm pretty sure their charter is just weird stains you don't want to ask questions about and a particularly bad crayon drawing of a cat.

 

On a napkin during a half hour lunch.

 

Somewhat related. But apparently if you buy a steam key from anywhere other than through steam itself. Valve does not get much if any of that money.

The reason for the discrepancy is Steam keys, which developers can generate pretty much at will to sell through non-Steam storefronts and brick-and-mortar retailers. While these key-based purchases are still redeemed through Steam and can take advantage of Steam's suite of features, Valve actually takes no commission from sales that don't take place directly through its own storefront.

 

So, what I am reading out of that is that PGI really had no fucking excuse at all.

 

it pretty much came down to "hey they will throw money at us. and we won't alienate any of our customers (their opinion)". I haven't seen any numbers but they were paying the refunds, not epic (who after some kickstarter game said they would pay the refunds). But MW 5 wasn't kickstarter even though it was crowdfunded. My guess is 25-40 refunds. I think Epic has a guarunteed sales thing (we'll pay you this much for x number of copies of the game) even if they don't sell that many. Which it kinda sounds like players on the Epic store don't care about mechwarrior at all.

But yeah. If steam gets their cut only if you buy through their store then where is Epic's moral high ground?

 

I am pretty sure they refunded more than 25-40 copies of MW5. (Typo?)

 

Whoops. Meant 25-40% of all pre order copies (might be high). I swear I fixed it before I even posted. Pretty sure i hit the % button.

The only number I've actually seen was Russ saying 700 refunds in the first (24 hours?) In the AMA after the "announcement". And I have seen 10,000 and 20,000 for the number of preorders (copies. Before preorder on epic store). Which if it was only 10,000 copies 700 refunds is 7%.

Here's a quote of it.

Still about 3.5%. In 24 hours. And I'm sure an equal number waited till last minute (final week of refund period) to refund. Leaving 20 or so days for others. 25% is probably high on second though. Since they never really sent out an email (I think there are still preorders who are just now finding out about the epic deal).

 

That makes a ton more sense. I think 25-40% is probably a pretty fair guess despite whatever Russ says.

 

Holy fuck those ads are annoying. Okay maybe they are just notifications about x game/games being free or on sale. Still unwanted. They pop up in the lower right corner of the screen without the store actually being open (minimized).

 

Well. That's new. And takes up like a quarter of the screen. And the close button doesn't work 75% of the time. And to get them I had to a) update Epic b) kill the update and start over because it doesn't fucking work correctly c) log in again and d) enter a "we don't actually know what two-factor is" two-factor code.

On the plus side there's still no shopping cart.

 

Also still months behind on the mod support.