Just popping in to drop of this one

https://medium.com/@perplamps/regarding-whats-been-happening-3af0f27d863c

enjoy

This is the kind of person I'd normally wish pubic lice on, except he already is one.

As if I care. he looks like a paedophile.

I find it sad people do this to new devs that say things or make a product they dislike.

Let's ask Linko about "toxicity" he received for using the wrong tag. I imagine it wasn't much different.

Yep soon as my back is turned for one second!

You mean the twerps who threw rocks at the hornets nest are hurt that it fell into a fire, and when they tried to stop the hornets from attacking them, they burned themselves and got stung?

Cry me the Amazon River.

Meh. I have no strong opinion over this. Just dropped in to say that.

That idiot did that on purpose and got the brunt of the consequences. Quite right too.

Jeebus, I swear the whole damned world has gone mad. I know my country (USA) is completely off the rails stupid and insane, but it looks like it must be the whole damned world.

Sad thing is there is no "fix." As a comedian once said... "you can't fix stupid."

I am actually glad about these new epic exclusives. When they finally release here they will be likely discounted already 75% because Epic has already paid them.

Yay, a random unexplained link! Just what I always dreamed of!

That Internet brings out the inner asshole of every asshole is nothing new. The thing that was interesting in this article is that it's good that Epic treats developers right. Even if I can't stand Epic Store, that's a good thing and hopefully, the competition will pick up on it.

From the article:

"And a final thanks to our friends at Epic, who are not only giving us the resources to make the game even better than we could have ever hoped, but are also showing us unwavering support. A lot of companies would’ve left us to deal with all of this on our own, but Epic has been by our side as our world has gone sideways. The fact that they care so much about a team and game as small as us proves to us that we made the right call in working with them, and we couldn’t be more thankful."

If they've done nothing else, Epic should be congratulated for the salt mine of butthurt they have given us from Steam drones. Keep the salt flowing Mr Sweeney!

Quick breakdown to why the negative reaction exists:

1 - Epic store lacks fundamental features currently.

2 - Their process of yanking as much as they can to be a store exclusive, sometimes weeks before it's due to for wide release (Metro for example) and grabbing Crowd Funded titles pitched and funded with multiple stores listed is an awful exercise. This is the biggest issue with Epic's storefront and these cases.

3 - The post the dev put out revealing the Epic store move was bad. If they had been sincere and showing empathic, not trying to say 'oh well worry about world hunger instead hehe' this wouldn't have been half as bad. Their interactions on Discord were also a mess.

4 - Don't throw insults at creators, but also don't throw insults at the core consumers you are trying to attract/sell to. Epic isn't the only storefront that seemingly does not understand who they are trying to sell to *taps nose*.

Sure, there's a toxic element to it where people are just wanting to be rude, and yes some die hard fan boys are in there, but the sheer level of 'but why do they not like Epic store?!!' is such a fake narrative. Anyone who has any level of connectivity with video game culture and consumer habits could have seen this coming a mile off.

The Epic store is great for devs/pubs, but they're doing an awful job of showing why it's good for consumers.