Cris16228
@Cris16228@lemmy.today
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #3 5 days ago:
Fuck epic
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 1 week ago:
Even big picture mode struggles with the steam store some times.
At least we have honest reviews!
While epig:
EGS reviews on games are FAKE
All of this, by the Epic Games words “Based on players reviews in Epic Games ecosystem”. From where? I can’t leave any review on any game, that I own, hillarious.
Releasing your game on EGS besides Steam is NOT straightforward and is costly for small devs
I am fed up of Epic shills spreading the narrative that EGS tools for piblishing games are better than Steam and devs are just lazy if they do not release their games on EGS. I have always debated that opinion defending that is not just a matter of just uploading the same files. It is a costly process that is commonly not worth it for small devs for just a handful of sales on EGS.
I found this comment from a dev detailing his “wonderful” experience uploading their game on EGS. Enjoy.
www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/s/E13WpTSOlD
“Oh the store release, a million little bullshit things.
Actually I released the game on Steam on 24/04. I released multiple games on Steam before, without any issues. Steam is a breeze. I love it.
Epic? Pain.
Non-sense rules. They delayed my release by more than 10 days.
On steam you can post anything in screens and trailers. Not on Epic. Even on PEGI 18 game you have to censor blood, or not include it at all. I could not believe this. But then I watched Dead Island 2 trailer on EPic - there really is no blood even in that game video. I had a trailer with blood up for 6 months. But a week before release some reviewer noticed I have 2 seconds of blood in the trailer. They made me take it down, up the PEGI from 12 to 18 so now there is a 18+ date picker warning, and had to reupload the trailer with black blood, not red.
Million confusing settings in 3 different stages. Dev, stage, live. If you get one setting wrong, your build will not pass review. Its like doing taxes - they know what you did wrong, but they don’t tell you exactly. If they tell you, and you disagree, you have no way to opose the decision with a ticket like on Steam. You have to create unrelated support ticket that NOBODY READS FOR DAYS. Response happens after a WEEK. Which is really fucked when your release date is 3 days away and they block your review package.
If one stage review fails, THEY WILL BLOCK THE WHOLE PACKAGE. So before release I wanted to update screens, trailer, release date and add some sweet gifs into description. But I uploaded ONE SCREENSHOT with dead scientist on the ground, in pool of blood. THey rejected the whole package - that means my release date did not update, my texts didnt either. BEcause of one screenshot. They bundle these changes together and it is not possible to change it specifically.
When I created the store page, I checked a checkbox that I will do achievements and will include Epic overlay. This option is NOT REVERTIBLE. YOu cannot revert it once you do this and they do not tell you. So a year or so later I had to deal with fucking achievements that I did not even want to include anymore, because of the extra work it required compared to STeam. Same with EOS overlay. THe overlay is NOT MANDATORY, yet they blocked my build for 2 days because it did not work in Live bundle. It did in Dev and Stage. They did not tell me how to fix this.
Later I found in ONE obscure forum post that Epic named one variable in config wrong, that caused this. They named “Artifact ID” with “Artifact Name”, but it is in fact ID. My game worked with overlay when run in standalone, but not via their store. Due to one checkbox. They knew what is wrong and did not bother responding. You have no way to communicate with them. Steam responds immediately. I was so annoyed with the achievements that when I had to include them, I included only a few that I had on Steam. Also you have to ensure that your achievements all add up to 1000 EXP. If it is not exactly 1000 EXP, review fails. ON FUCKING ACHIEVEMENTS. Then they forced me to add all Steam achievements, to “keep continuity among different store fronts”. On Steam, once they approve your game build, it is approved forever. Not on Epic. They have to review every build. You can get stuck on it right before release.
They wishlist rate on Epic is roughly 10% of what I get on Steam. But because they delayed my release by 10 days. I will get minimal conversion even from that, because they release week hype is over. So what they have “only” 12% comission. 88% of nothing is nothing. Epic fucked me. Never working with them again.”
Don’t get me started on their “wonderful” support if you lose your account: D
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 1 week ago:
We would have never gotten the likes of Alan wake 2 if not for epics money though
And it was a total flop lmao
Other than how they’ve handled rocket league and harmonix
U sure bud?
Even if a launcher is shitty, a launcher is just a launcher and at least their store runs better than gog or steams
Gimme some examples and I’ll share something with ya
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 1 week ago:
Buying exclusives on a pretty obvious inferior launcher because they couldn’t compete with steam so they had to gather some users with exclusivity
This is a starting point. They can’t compete with GOG or Steam, they’re even worse that EA play or whatever is called right now
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 1 week ago:
Epic has a sordid reputation.
I wonder why… Personally, I’d rather pirate than have to do anything with them. “Free games” are not enough to forgive what they did to the PC gaming community. They’re not so epic
- Comment on Gotcha... (by Sakana) 1 month ago:
Smash
- Comment on Sony is working on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 movies 1 month ago:
I bet you’ll need a Sony account to watch it in any cinema around the world.
Streaming service? Link your Sony account and you can watch them! Don’t worry, you’ll get a cool skin doing jt
- Comment on Marvel Rivals - Season 1 Trailer 1 month ago:
Why start removing bots from qp and make ranked games more balanced when we can release new skins?!
Check steam forums, a lot of people complain about bots and it’s annoying as fuck
- Comment on Tango Gameworks studio has been reborn, joining Krafton Inc 2 months ago:
Same. It was an amazing game and I hope they’ll release the sequel
- Comment on Tango Gameworks studio has been reborn, joining Krafton Inc 2 months ago:
Eh let’s hope for the sequel of Hi-Fi rush. Loved the first one
- Comment on Tango Gameworks studio has been reborn, joining Krafton Inc 2 months ago:
Yeah same. I loved Hi-fi rush and I hope they’ll release the second one (can they?!)
- Comment on Nintendo Music – Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
Fuck Nintendo
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 5 months ago:
You forgot the 10k for “Attempting to buy the ps5 pro for you” lol
- Comment on The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods 5 months ago:
Ooh based on the source code above? Nice!
- Comment on The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods 5 months ago:
How did you find it?
- Comment on The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods 5 months ago:
I’m not on pc but on android it gives me infinite download time
- Comment on The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods 5 months ago:
I can’t tell you because I don’t want to be sued by Sony but please don’t open this link!
- Comment on The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods 5 months ago:
There was a fork and I’ve found the source code lmao, gonna save it
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PC Games 5 months ago:
Oh, and now the game requires a PSN account on PC
I hope it does not if you don’t upgrade otherwise these mf ruined one of my favorite series. Fuck these mf anyway
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
Yes, more than the engine. I’m not saying I love the engine tho… Let’s say it’s below everything else 🤔
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
Not gonna trust devs who use it tho
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
The problem is what they did and still doing🤷♂️ they could offer something better rather that trying to buy people with free games
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
I said the problem is not UE, I didn’t say i love it, did I? I only said the engine is not the problem if it’s not infested with EOS. Games that force it now or retroactively add it are the big problem, EOS and Tim is the second problem
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
The problem is not UE tho
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
The people behind OES
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
Eh I know. But the engine itself isn’t bad 🤷♂️
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
The owner of it is a bad person 🤷♂️
- Comment on Satisfactory 1.0 5 months ago:
Remove EOS and I’m gonna buy it
- Comment on Oxenfree is being completely removed from itch.io in October 5 months ago:
Fuck netflix?
- Comment on Do you have any critiques of Pixel 9 Gemini's privacy? 6 months ago:
Google/Gemini and privacy? Interesting… I don’t own a pixel and I want to try one (with custom rom because fuck google) but I wouldn’t trust them lol
