Trying not to laugh hysterically right now. · 6:53pm Aug 12th, 2019
Borderlands 3 will not support pre-loading on the Epic Store.
Tim Sweeney's response:
"It’s complicated. We’ve released support for file preloading which is sufficient for some games, but we aren’t certain it’s up to the demands of a blockbuster like Borderlands."
And you jokers want to compete with Steam? That had pre-loading in 2004? 15 years ago? Pathetic. Simply pathetic.
I know that smaller indie devs really care about the money up front for exclusivity, and the 88-12 split, but as a consumer, I am absolutely not obligated to give a single fuck about any of that.
You halfwits have a few weeks to figure it out, but I really hope you don't. I hope you fuck up your very first exclusive AAA title, and turn even more people against your Shopping Cart-less, Tencent-infested cesspool.
I was dedicated to playing the waiting game with Borderlands 3 since it was announced; I'm not giving that ol' prick Randy more than $10 just like for the first two games. And I'm very happy that although he was initially going to pick it up, the mess with the private investigators Take Two sent to that streamer's house has also turned Brady firmly against BL3 as well.
The Fortnite Launcher is an embarrassment. People say its a competitor to Steam, but as you sad, its lacking something Steam had when it first launched, not to mention no forums or reviews or even basic account security and encryption. This shit is gonna crash and burn by the end of next year, if not sooner.
I find the brazen disrespect gamers have for dev teams to be almost funny in how disgustingly hypocritical it is. You say you don't have to give a fuck about dev teams, and then you wonder why things like crunch time and subsequently rushed products are so common. The community's insistence that they shouldn't have to care is why companies feel they don't have to either. As much as r/gaming might claim that Epic is killing gaming, it is in fact people like them doing it.
I know this will be downvoted to hell, but fuck it, it's true.
If Borderlands 3 is good I will play it I'm not gonna let something as stupid as a launcher stop me.
5104602
One can only hope, but I don't think it will. Gamers are the least frugal consumers, right up there with drug addicts sometimes.
5104610
I understand why smaller indie devs want the 88-12 cut. I'm not stupid. I hope the long game succeeds, and Valve offers something similar. Honestly, I don't understand why they don't already, and Epic would be well and truly screwed.
But the plight of the developer aside, I am absolutely not obligated to buy their game by putting my financial information on a store with laughable security and without extremely simple digital commerce staples like a Shopping Cart.
And when these small indie devs advertise their game on Steam, and pull out at the last minute by taking Epic's bribe? I think we are absolutely allowed to call them out, tell them to fuck off, and not give a shit if they "survive" or not.
Their choice to release a product in an insanely over-saturated market.
In the end, I'm simply baffled by Valve's complacency so far. I don't understand why they don't blitz and change their terms of service. You advertise a pre-release on Steam? Fucking release on Steam then or get blacklisted from the service.
5104614
Honestly Valve may not even have to do anything to make the Epic Store go under. Their competition is digging their own grace. Perhaps Valve will make those changes as a finishing move of sorts sometime in the future.
5104625
As long as legions of kids are playing Fortnite, there is no grave. Valve needs to protect pre-orders and pre-releases on their platform.
Why is everybody talking about Borderlands 3? It's more than a year before it gets released.
But joking aside, I have way to much stuff on Steam to ever want to move to Epic and I'm not planning to use them both. Also EGS is not complete enough to be useable.
5104634
Um, Borderlands 3 comes out in a month, not sure where you're getting your info.
I’ve been planning on getting the Epic launcher to play Phoenix Point. Two things have stopped me; the first is time. Now that I’m not trying to frontload hours at my job to pay for Bronycon, that shouldn’t be so much a problem.
My other concern has been an accusation/rumor that the launcher can leave a person’s machine vulnerable to malware. I haven’t really heard anything of it for a while, and I know how fast misinformation flies on the web (especially from angry gamers). But I’m really paranoid about my software. Have you heard anything legitimate about the launcher messing with computers?
5104639
I know but I have decided to ignore every Epic Exclusive untill it's not an exclusive anymore. At least until Epic gets it's ship back together and makes a shop that works.
In other words, on my calendar Borderlands 3 will be released in 2020...
5104757
Ah.
Yeah, same with Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. As far as I'm concerned it's a 2020 game.
5104610
The consumers have got nothing to do with it. The modern game industry is a child of the '80s, and incubated when the Friedmanite mantra of no social responsibility except to make a profit was dogma in the business schools. And it's not even incorrect dogma; both the legal system and the brute fact of competition enforce it on firms.