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Gamers making a mountain out of a molehill Any% (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago by KhanCipher@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you're being slightly inconvenienced.

Pretty much what happened is it wasn't advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it's Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.

And it's funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of "Sure it sucks, but there's a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry."

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Ngl it's probably a case of old man yelling at clouds but I hate always having to make accounts for everything, especially when there's not even a multiplayer mode. I was trying to play Child of Light not too long ago and got stuck in a looping bug with Uplay where it wouldn't register or something that was a known issue they couldn't be bothered to fix, I just ended up downloading a pirated copy.

[–] goose@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ubisoft is awful about this. My kids couldn't play Immortals on Xbox because it required a Ubisoft account to even play singleplayer, but they're too young to make accounts, so they got stuck in an endless loop until we figured out to set the entire system in offline mode. Why is this a thing? Who does it help?

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

They get to point to registered accounts in quarterly shareholder meetings.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

hey, finally some time to play a game! how about Big 3A Sandbox 2018, haven't played that in a while

huh, let's just let steam update it, just three minutes

ok now it's starting

oh another launcher

oh, launcher needs to update, just four more minutes

ok finally done, but now i need to log into my PublisherOnline account, just let me reset my password that i haven't used in forever

ah, now it's connecting to PublisherOnline, almost there

oh sweet, PublisherOnline launcher .exe crashed, that's 25 minutes well spent

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah basically this; I can't be bothered to make an account for my games. There's a hunting game on steam I want to play but it needs you to make an account somewhere apparently and nope, can't be bothered.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I have to agree, especially it's some proprietary account not used for anything else. I thought about getting Street Fighter 6, but after noticing it has Denuvo and you need to make a Capcom account to play it, I said ”no, I'm good”.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

Uplay and Origin are the absolute worst, with both just constantly failing to do the literal one singular thing they're supposed to do. At least Epic actually functions consistently, about on par with Steam in my experience. But then I've had an account and been using the launcher since long before they had an actual store on it, back when it just had separate tabs for the UE4 editor (what I was using it for), Unreal Tournament, something called "Shadow Complex" that was some free sidescrolling UE4 tech demo or something, and the Paragon closed alpha (later joined by the Fortnite closed alpha).

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like I get it, but the way I see it is that this is being blown way out of proportion and making them look like manchildren because they were being only slightly inconvenienced.

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's going to be a

downbear

From me dawg.

As someone who's privacy conscious, making a whole new account on a third party and linking it to my active steam account isn't just being "slightly inconvenienced". Especially in this case where it wasn't disclosed on the steam store page. Leaving a negative review seems completely proportional.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Leaving a negative review is different from a coordinated campaign of review-bombing

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This isn't a coordinated campaign of review-bombing, and if it was it's the dumbest one of all time. It just launched on steam today so for it to be coordinated, people would have to be buying the game just to leave a negative review. It's not like there was already a huge playerbase that's now mad.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

It's not like there was already a huge playerbase that's now mad

not for nothing, but this is the highly anticipated 6th entry in a cult classic and popular series

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I think it's totally a thing people do to buy a game and leave a negative review and then refund it, and things like that. Maybe I'm just underestimating the visceral Gamer knee-jerk to Epic, but simply requiring another account without saying so upfront (which both of us would give it a negative review for, to be clear) seems like it wouldn't be enough with a general audience to push reviews down as far as they are. Maybe I'm dumb, though

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But Epic is owned by China, sweetie. (I think I dunno I don't play modern games anymore).

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Tencent has an ownership stake in it, and that ruffles all the racist gamers up. I have an Epic Games Store account just for the weekly freebies lol

[–] Waldoz53@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

wow so xi jinping is giving me free games?? thats sick if true

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Imagine using this energy for actually productive change

All minute and a half of it? I'm all for making fun of gamers but let's not pretend this is some big mobilisation, or even a particular overreaction - people are buying the newest entry in a popular series, opening it to find out it's changed to require EGS, getting annoyed, leaving a negative review and refunding the game. The longest part of the process is waiting for the game to download.

And maybe I'm getting old but I avoid games that require extra launchers too. I already have a game launcher open, if I have to go launch more launchers to launch my game it's just gonna be easier for me to pirate it.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

You should have seen what happened when Skullgirls edited some of its sexualized depictions of minors. There were even people on this fucking website criticizing it as an "anti-consumer" practice.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They recently freaked the absolute fuck out about Helldivers requiring a PSN account. it was about ~~integrity in games journalism~~ players in regions without PSN account access being locked out but, well...

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

I mean letting people play the game for like a month and then telling them to fuck off (without the prospect of giving them a refund at the time) was pretty shitty

[–] Procapra@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Ngl I'm still mad I need to make a steam account to play...anything. Unless the game has online features, even if I own it, I just torrent it. So much easier.