This is a pretty good move by Epic. I really appreciate how they're supporting the developer with this

The reason they're doing this is to avoid Breach of Contract lawsuits. Fun Fact: doing this won't make them any less liable for said lawsuits.

It's not really.
They are entirely the reason why Shenmue 3 is in this situation.
This isn't a good thing they did. This is just a hollow attempt at getting people to like them.
Tencent holdings limited owns 40% of Epic games. Seeing as they acquire and put more and more money into multiple other companies Tencent can at any time fully own Epic.
Epic games needed to do this or they would literally be committing a criminal act.

Why do people dislike the Epic Store?

Tim is ugly so therefore I dislike him. I only like attractive people.

Brand loyalty.

Why do people dislike a store that favor publishers over consumers?

Why are people saying epic "fixed the problem"? Epic fixing the problem would be them not having anything to do with the game, they are the problem, what they are doing is literally increasing the problem by getting more involved and shielding the devs for their bad decisions.

>fucking over your earliest supporters by using their money like a zero-interest loan
wow, so generous

Cause it's unnecessary, and doesn't do anything that particularly benefits me as a consumer, but might eventually force me to install more shit just to play a game i want.

>so primitive and barebones that an update for a game has to be manually pushed out by epic infrastructure staff
>games too
>games and updates literally compete for manpower
>if a AAA game is coming out soon, say goodbye to the possibility of pushing out an update for your indie game

shoddy online store that uses underhanded tactics to stay relevant

nobody would complain if they naturally competed with steam by being a better storefront.

Dogs are shit tier animals and pets.

Buys up last min exclusivity and blames steam for not giving out keys they don't have access to because epic bought exclusivity.
The Launcher itself is so bad a indie shovel ware launcher known as Itchio is launched in a far better state than it and the Epic games launcher has had 2 years already to work on it and they still don't have a Shopping cart.
You get your account flagged if you buy too many games.
They claim they are for the developers but their little bonus goes directly to the publishers only.
There has been reports of people having their games deleted from their accounts when they uninstall the games. Only for Epic to say that those people have been playing on a almost identical account the entire time.
Multiple claims that the Epic games launcher steals your steam information.
Actually straight up bought a few indie devs and had them removed from steam all together.
Straight up stole some youtubers dance moves and "deep dab" and sold it for money on fortnite.

I don't think there has been a positive thing said about Epic without it coming out of someone who was paid to say it.

But the Epic doing their exclusive bullshit is the reason they have to give out refunds in the first place.

>indie wolverine
I bet he's the kind of guy who makes some edgy 2deep4u kind of indie garbage with a superpowered self insert, then wonders why his masterful creation doesnt sell on Steam

>a fellow toxoplasmosis lover
Based

>>I don't think there has been a positive thing said about Epic without it coming out of someone who was paid to say it.
They made some okay games before they moved on to console shit last decade

>Tim literally HAS to pay otherwise potentially he and then Shenmu devs/publishers will be sued HARD and fined MASSIVELY by Australia and Europe
>HOW CAN YOU HATE TIM? HE'S A CUTE PUPPY

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cat chads where we at

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>pr twitter handle
>same state as epic

How does a more prettier storefront change the fact that you're still being forced to sign up for a chinese-backed service that offers nothing special?

If Epic wanted to experiment with ideas like digital trade-ins or rentals, then sure I can get behind that. They have more than enough money and clout to make that a day 1 feature. But instead we get console war-tier bullshit and Timmy acting like a republican faggot

> favor publishers over consumers
Epic store paid $10 instead of you for every game you purchased during Mega sale. How is this not more consumer friendly compared to steam summer sale?

Thanks, Tim! I might actually use your client now!
No, it's all a PR move done to ensure more devs take the bribe money. What's the point of taking an upfront sum when you lose long-term sales?

It has been shown that the mega sale was actually a act of immense incompetence as devs and publishers were not informed of epic's decision and had multiple games removed from the store because they couldn't opt out otherwise.

Wow and to think all it took was the threat of a class action lawsuit. What a swell guy!

>How is this not more consumer friendly compared to steam summer sale?
Because with Steam I don’t get my account banned for buying multiple games in quick succession due to the lack of basic store features like a shopping cart. Also, many of the games on EGS’s sale were pulled by the publishers because they didn’t consent to it, which leads to situations where some people get a game for cheap but not others.

>blatant manufactured goodwill
Disgusting.
This refund shit is a standard, why is it being treated like people should be greatful for not being fucked over with their money.

Imagine, JUST FUCKING IMAGINE
I want you to close your eyes and use all the strength of your imagination to IMAGINE yourself being so deep into corporatism dick suckery you compare a chinese power house corporation to a puppy.
PLEASE I BEG YOU TO TRY.

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>epic paying for people to remove their pledges and pirate the game instead
>epic paying to show that kickstarter doesn't work
based as FUCK

CIA nigger shills are absolutely seething that china is taking over and the mutt empire is collapsing before their very eyes

>hmmm should I face a lawsuit and go to court and make a big stink on the news or do I just gift these couple thousand people these worthless virtual goods they already paid for and aren't going to purchase them again anyway since they already did

>hmmm should I go forward and make this precedent a normal thing and turn it in my favor in the subsequent similar circumstances where I bribe devs that kickstarted in the same fashion and make myself look like the good guy

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Fun fact, you are a delusional retard.

it's for fags

Why is his face so fucking stupid?

>WHY WON'T YOU LIKE ME

Dude, that's racist.

I don't have to buy game anymore because Epic will buy them for me. It's a win-win situation.

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>Epic Games is not owned by Tencent Holdings Limited

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They belive is better if NSA spy on you than MSS

reminder that the epic store doesnt even have a working cart yet

I like using a store that has working features such as shopping carts, reviews, and discussion boards.

I love Tim! He allows me to pirate guilt free because he already paid for everyone's copy!

>Bribe Shenmue 3 developers to break their promises to kickstarter backers and go Epic Exclusive
>"Offer" to give refunds to people who want the product as advertised when the Shenmue 3 devs were requires to do so by Kickstarter's TOS
>SUCK HIS DICK, CHOKE ON IT

I honestly wouldn't care about this whole Steam vs Epic thing if the Epic store had even 1/3rd of the features of the Steam store. No user reviews (inb4 A FEW GAMES GOT TEMPORARILY REVIEW BOMBED WAAAAAAAAAH), no Mod support, you can't even fucking SEARCH in their store.

Delusional, time is running more and more people seeing the epic light

>Delusional, time is running more and more people seeing the epic light
Learn English, Chang.

>use twitter for once in my fucking life to tell Tim that features like a shopping cart are necessary
>get some faggot telling me that the playstore doesn't have a shopping cart so my request is fucking stupid
>mention that accounts can get blocked due to multiple purchases in a row
>get insulted by a couple different faggots
>fetal alcohol syndrome man leaves a like on the faggot's posts during the interaction instead of addressing his at the time month long delay on the cart he promised in the roadmap
>month later people on twitter are complaining their accounts are getting suspended for buying multiple games in a row
Everyone already listed the reasons why Epic can go eat shit, but even if they were to fix every single one of their problems this interaction alone has fueled the purest smug contrarian hatred that I've ever felt in my life and I absolutely refuse to ever have that dog faced retard's store in my computer

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Tim is a pretty cool guy, first he paid them for exclusive, now he paid for damages, Shenmue team got so much dosh they don't even need my pennies anymore, I will just pirate to not cause unnecessary data traffic on EGS with my lowly download. Thanks Tim!

>40%
user are you retarded? 40% is not the majority, they can only control Epic if they work together with somebody who has 10.1%.

Thanks for the chinkbucks, Tim, but I'll be playing the chinkware-free PS4 version.

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Fucking lel, I love how asshurt Shiteemdrones are about a fucking alternative launcher.

>m-m-muh Facebook-like social features! Muh badges! Muh anime ERP profile!

Absolutely pathetic.

>hurrr majority shareholder dont real

Why do people continue to play dumb?

Nevermind, I know exactly why.

r/fuckepic told me to

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FUCK, shes too damn hot.

They force exclusivity and are proud and smug about it. They don't make their own games like are on Uplay or Origin, they just fucking buy games (sometimes ones that already have steam store pages) and then say they're saving developers or some shit. It especially makes the developers look bad because it makes them seem like they care about money way more than their fans.

and no wonder these fucking bootlickers are retards

noliberals who support shitty corporations, remember, Democrats are not for the working man, but rather for the military corp and large consumer corps

at least Repubs want smaller government

>40% is not the majority
When the rest of people who own stock is under 40%, then yes, that's a majority, zoomer
Do you think when it comes to politics, if there are three parties, there's no such thing as a 'majority' when it comes down to a theoretical 1/3rd split, which is less than 1/2?
Based retard zoomer

JUST

I feel like anyone who accepts a refund is dropping the right to sue.

>fellow user
outed yourself chink spy

Yea Forums and PCfags in general are full of valvecucks.

That's it, that's the whole thing Yea Forums is so analblasted about. The EGS being underwhelming is mostly rationalization of their buttdevastation, but it's not the main reason.

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It's more about
>muh ability to buy games without being banned
>Muh games not being removed from my account when I uninstall them
>Muh games I already payed for on steam being stolen and removed from the store because another company was greedy.
You know. Shit people are reasonably mad about.

Tim is the majority shareholder. I think he owns an undisclosed amount but >50%.

90% of the people aren't mad about those things and you know it. Steamcels are just being drones and mad because they can't choke on Valve's dick 100% of the time anymore.

MMMmmmm no. I don't think that is remotely true buddy.
There are staggeringly high chances that you are being payed by Epic to shill than your comment holding any weight.

90% of the people aren't mad about those things because they smelled the bullshit before buying games on the fucking Epic store, otherwise they would be mad about them. The fact that those things do happen just validates their mistrust.

>no arguments
>"epic shill! REEEEEE"
Valvecucks seething as usual.

>owns an undisclosed amount
>corporation

user...

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Looks like I'm pirating Shenmue III

>inb4 sales are slashed to a quarter because it's not on steam

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Not him, but: Majority LITERALLY means “50%, +1”. It means more than half BY DEFINITION.

A plurality (the largest minority in a group with no majority) is NOT a majority. And in, say, a US Presidential election, if one candidate wins 40% of the vote and the other 2 candidates win 20% apiece, then Congress chooses the next President because THERE WAS NO MAJORITY WINNER.

And Epic pays for the missing 3/4, so whatever, pirate away!

Whatever you got to say and suck to get that corporate dime, eh.

tim sweeny is my hero and a real human bean

Look up the definition of majority, they have the majority of stocks.

You're talking about "absolute majority".

It doesn't though.
Majority means more than something else. The bigger number.
Tim would need at least 41% of the company to be the majority since Tencent owns 40% already
Which is highly unlikely in a corporation.

>He thinks I buy videogames
The average valveshitter, everyone. Thank god I'm not a cuck that buys games proudly.

Who said you did? I'm just saying you perform fellatio for your corporate overlords for money.

we don't

its only steam shills who overcharge devs 30% of the profits unlike the generous 12% of epic store the ones who are complaining

Whatever advertising company you work for, quit. You're shit at your job and nobody here believes you're anything but a shill. Maybe they gave you a script, maybe they coached you on how to type, maybe this is all 100% you. Either way, you're fucking bad at this and should give up. Never come back here.
Put any degrees or work experience you have toward finding a new job and actually do something with your life. Because this? This isn't working at all. This is a joke. We're all laughing at how stupid you are.

Why if according to Epic drones the Steam fags are so retarded, why are they so adamant in converting them to the EGS cult? EGS is superior, isn't it? Why do you need retarded users so badly? EGS is doing wonderful isn't it? Why are they in such a hurry to steal retards from Steam?

lmao who is that cock sucker at the bottom?
I bet it's Randy Pitchford under another username.

Why does this get asked 20 times every single day?
It's the same fucking answers every time, too.

When did Valve (or any other store by that matter) say that developers are more important than customers, don't add reviews because it hurts developers feelings, add an extra charge to avoid increasing their cut so publishers can profit more?

Because it's shills playing off eachother. One sets it up, the other swoops in with an answer. Happens all the fucking time. Ignore them.

besides less functionality the thing that agitate people the most is fact that you are FORCED to use it. People hate it when you make them do something instead of giving them choice

Aww, what's the matter little steamcel pissbaby? Need a diaper change? :)

>provide solution to a problem you created in the first place
wow based epic what a great company

They paid shills from Tiananman square to stop making protest and instead make 1989 shill threads on Yea Forums about how great Epic and Winnie the Pooh is

It was annoying