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.”

  • KhanCipher [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    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 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      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.

        • dannoffs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          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 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            4 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 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            4 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