• urda@lebowski.social
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    9 months ago

    Tim Sweeney is literally the biggest fucking cry baby I’ve ever seen.

    I won’t touch anything Epic because of such a man child he has become.

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      9 months ago

      Hey if him being a giant baby keeps giving me free games let the manbaby cook.

      Mankind Divided is free right now btw

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        9 months ago

        Not worth me being a statistic that they can sell to investors imo. Fuck Epic.

        Besides, that game’s been on sale for less than $5 on Steam.

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          9 months ago

          “As you can see, a whole bunch of people joined our service, downloaded games we paid literally millions for from our servers and didn’t give us money” isn’t a good pitch.

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              9 months ago

              It is the only reason I have epic installed. Not planning to buy anything but they got their foot in the door

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              9 months ago

              Fooling investors into thinking people will just start paying them for a worse experience than you can get on Steam is funny but even they should realize once they look at the financials.

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                9 months ago

                I wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like…

                they rope kids in with the free price tag over the summer, school starts and they get bullied for only having the default Fortnite skin, and suddenly the “customer” “converts“.

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        9 months ago

        Mankind Divided is free right now btw

        It’s not free. The point is to get me to make an account on Epic and install their stupid launcher. That isn’t free and I’m tired of people claiming things are “free” when in fact they exist to get you to sign up for another service. It’s not free-as-in-air.

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          9 months ago

          We know it isnt free free. But in this economy you take what you can get.

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          9 months ago

          You’re right, but I do appreciate getting GTA V for $0. They’ll never get a cent from me but I’ll take their games. I’m also running Windows so nothing about my gaming is free-as-in-air anyways

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            9 months ago

            Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you – depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That’s my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.

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                  9 months ago

                  The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

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                    8 months ago

                    But it wasn’t worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn’t really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.