Renault on 20/12/2021 at 22:53
Of course, I actually bought this like a week ago from them!
Renault on 21/12/2021 at 17:20
Quote Posted by Brethren
Of course, I actually bought this like a week ago from them!
OK, I'm a bit shocked by this, but Epic went ahead and actually refunded me for Loop Hero, completely unsolicited by me. I had bought the game 10 days before it went on sale. Pretty awesome all around there.
Nameless Voice on 21/12/2021 at 17:37
Today's free game is (
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/second-extinction) Second Extinction - something I'd considered picking up once it was out of Early Access, but now it's free on Epic before it's even been fully released?
Oh well, don't mind if I do. Might be a fun co-op game.
demagogue on 22/12/2021 at 02:55
Quote Posted by Brethren
OK, I'm a bit shocked by this, but Epic went ahead and actually refunded me for Loop Hero, completely unsolicited by me. I had bought the game 10 days before it went on sale. Pretty awesome all around there.
That's cool of them. I mean it's smart of them. I'm sure they did it for strategic reasons. You don't want to build an army of bitter people when building good will is part of the whole game.
I want to distrust Epic. They got off to a bad start with their platform; like when I tried to register, finding my email already had an account created for some person in Thailand. But slowly and surely they've been making it better, and the giveaways are hard to ignore.
Most of all (I guess I'll go on a bit of a tangent with this), I'm still being surprised how much they are giving away for the Unreal Engine... Like the Megascans. Each pack by itself would go for ~$200 in normal circumstances, and they've given away something like, well 9 pages of 20 packs per page, they're all as photo real as it gets, they're still releasing a new pack every few weeks, and there's enough of them now you could make most basic environments you could imagine. Then there are the regular giveaways all the time on top of that. Then you have MetaHumans for free, so you could make any human character you care to spend enough time making. Who does that?
I guess there's a logic to it. If you put it alongside what the Unreal 5 engine is capable of (you can only use the Megascans in their engine), I imagine we're going to see a flood of people churning out content like they were Itch games, except they all look stunning, photo real, and packed with amazing content...
Yeah, I want to be a little skeptical, but it'll have a big impact I think if you stepped back and looked at the situation.
I suppose we need to be thanking all of those dreadful Fortnite groupies for bankrolling the whole operation (& maybe a good number of UE licenses).
Starker on 22/12/2021 at 06:46
Quote Posted by demagogue
like when I tried to register, finding my email already had an account created for some person in Thailand.
You might want to check (
https://haveibeenpwned.com/) -- for some unfathomable reason, there were (are?) people who used e-mails exposed in data breaches to sign up for services like Epic instead of using their own e-mail (maybe to cheat in Fortnite or something?). And Epic didn't (doesn't?) validate e-mails on sigń-up.
Nameless Voice on 22/12/2021 at 10:49
Tim Sweeney seems to have decided that the big software providers all charge too much for what they offer, and decided that his company shouldn't be all about extracting as much money as possible.
I remember when they lowered their fees for UE4 Marketplace sellers from the old standard 30% to 12% - and retroactively gave the developers the 18% difference for everything they'd ever sold in the past.
I think that's something that could only happen in a smaller company where one person still has majority control, rather than being run by a corporate board.
Starker on 24/12/2021 at 13:27
GOG is giving away (
https://www.gog.com/) I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.
