Maybe it’s because a lot of new games coming out today are buggy, micro transaction filled pieces of crud?
Until Tim Sweeney does something about Tim fucking Sweeney I am good thanks.
Or maybe not everyone wants another FPS with gamble boxes?
Maybe consider some of us just want to play with friends and/or spouses or partners.
Reintroduce LAN play and locally hosted multiplayer servers. IDGAF about playing with randos, I just want to play with my wife, and I’d prefer it to not be something that can shut down because the company went broke or didn’t care anymore.
Have you considered, hear me out, that some players just hate playing with other players, because being insulted breaks immersion?
All the other micro transaction fuckery you do on top just makes it yet more unappealing.
Epic shared plans for “portable content, codes and economies” between UE-developed games, with Fortnite slated to be the first real proof of concept. In Fortnite’s case, portability will allow cosmetics obtained or purchased in-game to be used in other UE games and vice versa. Additionally, UE6’s cross-game social link feature will allow players to be connected to one game, but voice chat with people playing another.
The first part seems like a new concept we haven’t seen in other games. Buy one skin, use it everywhere. I bet they’re going to fuck it up with their greed somehow, but it’s a neat concept and provides more value to people who buy skins.
The second part, and last sentence, is basically just discord, team speak, etc. I don’t buy or use Epic’s stuff, but if I understand it correctly, some dumbass thought it was a good idea to only allow voice channels for people playing the same game 🤣🤣🤣
It’s probably my lack of understanding of UR, but how do you have the same skin in multiple games for different character or items models? Are they going to update every game when there is a new skin released or is this somehow done dynamically?
Buy one skin, use it everywhere.
That’s how they tried to sell NFTs in games to us iirc. Buy a gun skin or obtain a specific gun in CoD and use it in another game. I dunno how that was supposed to work, but I remember that marketing spin when they were trying to make them a thing.
How the fuck am I suppose to make new friends when I can’t consistently connect with people unless they are already my friend? This wasn’t a problem back when games were mostly on dedicated servers where the same groups would hang out consistently, day after day, so you’d actually get to know people.
You can still do that in many games.
It’s just organized unofficially in Discord groups. And… yeah, Discord is mandatory :(
This guy lives in a very specific bubble on his own.
Obligatory “Fuck Tim Sweeney!”
I don’t have the personal budget to buy a lot of games. Pay me more and I’ll spend more. Otherwise, fuck all the way off
I mean, I get it, but…unless you work for Epic, I’m not seeing how Epic would have sny say at all in how much you get paid.
It’s a demand pointed out the entire capitalist hellscape, of which epic is a part, not them specifically.
Sweeney’s a billionaire. He could be pushing for labor to have a bigger slice of the pie. But he won’t, because he’s a soulless husk.
“We think giving the players funny hats that cross over will make them play Fortnite more.”
Big Monty Python’s Meaning of Life energy here.
It is impossible to satirize this guy
Damn it, who anthropomorphized satire and let it run a company!?
My question is…how are they still in business???
Yeah, nothing will help attract players like diluting any weak identity it already had with an open deluge of metaverse slop. Everything will be everything. It’s not enough to have a product anymore, it has to be a whole ecosystem. God forbid a single bloody dollar slip through your grasp.
Guess we will see if GTA6 online fails due to not being in the unreal ecosystem
Rockstar lost me when they added invasive anticheat to GTAV. It was a great game prior to that, but take away something I’ve been enoying for almost 10 years on a whim and don’t allow me to play it anymore because I’m on Linux? Goodbye and good riddance. Not touching anything they put out ever again.
I’m sure they will survive
it’s already failed for me.
I ain’t touching that pile of shit with 10 copies of gta5 taped together and covered in feces…
ALL aaaa slop is dead to me… they will never see a dime from me ever again… no ea, no ubi, no rockstar… if they call themselves AAAA then it’s trash.
Pretty excited about gta6 myself but I’m not touching the online mode with a 10 foot pole. It probably won’t even run on linux anyway
- Isn’t “overproduced” not an antonym of slop?
- That you won’t buy it won’t make its (probable?) success less of a counterargument to this ceo’s ramblings.
