Slashman wrote on Dec 26, 2020, 19:29:

Beamer wrote on Dec 26, 2020, 18:32:

Slashman wrote on Dec 26, 2020, 18:21:
Already had it and even if I didn't...I really don't want anything from Epic. They leave a nasty smell in the air and have been complicit in screwing over too many gamers for me to be comfortable taking things from them or even installing their launcher.

After the CP2077 debacle, what is the smell you find coming from gog?

I never had GOG or CDPR up on a pedestal. The Witcher games were great, but I don't go out of my way to buy from GOG. Got a few games from them but I don't pretend to try to buy from them exclusively.

In any case... they don't snatch away kickstarted and funded games from the people that funded them. Which is my first and foremost problem with Epic. If they want to fund games from the ground up. More power to them. I'm not going to buy from their store and I can wait patiently until it gets to a store that I do want to buy from.

The CP2077 debacle as you call it affected console owners...which I am not and really could not care less about. They certainly don't care for me when publishers are snubbing PC gamers and/or making crummy ports to PC. So what is your point exactly?

"... snatch away kickstarted and funded games from the people that funded them."
Interesting point.
Though the developer studio would be more at fault even if sharing the sin with the tempter.
Maybe Epic's money helped the studio stay open or start producing another game ?
Or just wanted the money more than fullfilling promises.
Not denying that some got shafted.

But Epic's tactic is pretty amazing :

Promoting PC gaming to,
- New gamers that got to play games only because they were free.
- Old gamers trying and discovering games they wouldn't have bought.
- Poor gamers unable to buy even cheap games in these troubled times, getting some incredible gifts (Grand Theft Auto V premium edition, Remnant From the Ashes, both Watch Dogs, etc, etc).

I have some 1300 steam games, never bought 1 game anywhere else, unless it was a key I could redeem on Steam.

I respect your stance and liked reading it, opinions give valuable and sometimes eye opening perspective.

But also, I truly love Epic Games Store for 119 games, so far (not counting ones in Steam too).
Like never before on Thursdays, my heart soars that day