Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you’re being slightly inconvenienced.
Pretty much what happened is it wasn’t advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it’s Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.
And it’s funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of “Sure it sucks, but there’s a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry.”
Ngl it’s probably a case of old man yelling at clouds but I hate always having to make accounts for everything, especially when there’s not even a multiplayer mode. I was trying to play Child of Light not too long ago and got stuck in a looping bug with Uplay where it wouldn’t register or something that was a known issue they couldn’t be bothered to fix, I just ended up downloading a pirated copy.
Ubisoft is awful about this. My kids couldn’t play Immortals on Xbox because it required a Ubisoft account to even play singleplayer, but they’re too young to make accounts, so they got stuck in an endless loop until we figured out to set the entire system in offline mode. Why is this a thing? Who does it help?
hey, finally some time to play a game! how about Big 3A Sandbox 2018, haven’t played that in a while
huh, let’s just let steam update it, just three minutes
ok now it’s starting
oh another launcher
oh, launcher needs to update, just four more minutes
ok finally done, but now i need to log into my PublisherOnline account, just let me reset my password that i haven’t used in forever
ah, now it’s connecting to PublisherOnline, almost there
oh sweet, PublisherOnline launcher .exe crashed, that’s 25 minutes well spent
Uplay and Origin are the absolute worst, with both just constantly failing to do the literal one singular thing they’re supposed to do. At least Epic actually functions consistently, about on par with Steam in my experience. But then I’ve had an account and been using the launcher since long before they had an actual store on it, back when it just had separate tabs for the UE4 editor (what I was using it for), Unreal Tournament, something called “Shadow Complex” that was some free sidescrolling UE4 tech demo or something, and the Paragon closed alpha (later joined by the Fortnite closed alpha).
Like I get it, but the way I see it is that this is being blown way out of proportion and making them look like manchildren because they were being only slightly inconvenienced.
Yeah, that’s going to be a
From me dawg.
As someone who’s privacy conscious, making a whole new account on a third party and linking it to my active steam account isn’t just being “slightly inconvenienced”. Especially in this case where it wasn’t disclosed on the steam store page. Leaving a negative review seems completely proportional.
Leaving a negative review is different from a coordinated campaign of review-bombing
