Up until the last month or so, you may not have heard of the controversy surrounding Epic Games unless you were a PC gamer. The PC gaming community has been sharply divided over Epic Games and their practice of buying up games and their publishers to secure their exclusivity to the Epic store. I personally hate this. Pretty much any PC game worth playing is available on a few storefronts, usually Steam, GOG and\/or Microsoft. Probably 95% of my games are on Steam, and I try to buy there when I can. It’s a good system for game purchasing and management. Epic isn’t. They don’t even have a shopping cart feature. They bought Psyonix, developer of Rocket League, and pulled the game off Steam, and canceled the Mac and Linux versions of the game. As of a day or so ago, you can’t play Rocket League without an Epic account regardless of where you bought the game originally. I hate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Epic recently started a practical nuclear war with Apple over an issue with Apple terms and conditions for developers on the store. Ars Technica has some good coverage of it<\/a>. Honestly, Apple doesn’t look amazing either, but Epic is just getting damn scummy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyways, my first anniversary and my wife’s birthday are coming in the next week-ish. My wife wanted Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (developed by a studio nearby in Albany, to my surprise) for her birthday, which did come out on PC. But only on Epic, with no word on when or if a Steam release would be available. The game is only $40, a price that is more than worth it according to every review I’ve seen. I just couldn’t bring myself to pay Epic that $40 though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My wife suggested we get a PS4 as a kind of anniversary present. If coronavirus wasn’t happening, we’d be taking a small trip like a long weekend for our anniversary, but that just isn’t a good idea today. I took a look, and found out we could get a used PS4 Pro with games for less than we’d spend on a long weekend. She’d get Tony Hawk (and hopefully some more stuff eventually), and I’d get to play the PS4 exclusives I missed by being a PC gamer. So I got one. It was about $350 for a PS4 Pro, controller and several games, all of which except Horizon: Zero Dawn will likely be going on eBay this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I got Tony Hawk for my wife, which she loved. I also got Ratchet and Clank, thinking that we could both play a fun 3D platformer. She loves Tony Hawk, and I’m extremely happy with Ratchet and Clank. For me, Ratchet and Clank alone was worth the price of admission. It has a really beautiful, Pixaresque style with a humorous, unreliable narrator presenting a kind of unoriginal but interesting enough story with some self references sprinkled in. The PS4 offers remote play, so I can play on my PC in the office or bedroom if I want. My plan is to buy the handful of Playstation exclusives I want either used on eBay or from the Playstation store on sale, plus any games that are Epic exclusives on PC, like SnowRunner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So that’s how much I hate Epic games. I’d rather pay $350 for a used Playstation than give them $40 for a fabulous game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Up until the last month or so, you may not have heard of the controversy surrounding Epic Games unless you were a PC gamer. The PC gaming community has been sharply divided over Epic Games and their practice of buying up games and their publishers to secure their exclusivity to the Epic store. I personally … Continue reading “Here’s How Much I Hate Epic Games”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,6,76,138,144,150,170],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-anniversary","tag-apple","tag-epic-games","tag-playstation","tag-ps4","tag-ratchet-and-clank","tag-tony-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.raucousatthecaucus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}