Re: FREE GAME: Hot Wheels Unleashed

Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:

On 12/27/2024 9:03 AM, Justisaur wrote:

On 12/27/2024 8:57 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:40:29 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
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Wait, are we still doing this? Isn't Christmas come and gone? What's
with all these games? Well, I guess we'll just have to endure the
rigorous ordeal of adding even more games into our library. What a
hard life we live!
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* Hot Wheels Unleashed

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Side note:
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Six years in, and Epic still can't figure out how to run a digital
store-front. Now, I get that these freebies are putting added load
onto their servers; even Steam sometimes stumbles there. But at least
when Steam can't handle the load, it doesn't present a default
cloudflare 404 screen, block my IP, and lock up the client forcing me
to kill the process in task manager. Epic Game Store does that. And
this isn't even the first time this has happened.
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I'm sure eventually the problem will resolve itself (and if not, I
mean, who cares. It's not that this is a game I really want. I just
like seeing The Number go up ;-). But Epic: you wanna know why you
aren't making headway in your 'war' against Valve? This is why. Fix
your damn client, you clowns. People have been telling you that for
over half a decade, and yet even after all that time and press, it's
still shit.
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(side note to the side note: the problem also occurs through the
browser, albeit more subtly and at least the browser doesn't lock up.
I'm more forgiving there, since it's obviously just an overloaded
server).
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On the other hand, Epic's continued incompetence made me smile. So I
guess that's good?
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TL;DR: if you want the game, maybe wait for the servers to be less
over-loaded, and don't use their shitty client.
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They did me one worse:
 
"
Sorry, you have been blocked
You are unable to access store.epicgames.com
Why have I been blocked?
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online
attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution.
There are several actions that could trigger this block including
submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
 
What can I do to resolve this?
You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please
include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare
Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.
"
 

That was from the client.

I tried again from the website, which just gave me

"An error occurred during checkout"

I don't know why I'm bothering either.  I played it briefly on Luna I
think, and it didn't grab me.  That might be because Luna isn't good for
games where you need good input time, which is pretty much everything
but puzzle and turn based.

FOR THE NUMBER!

I too was more a matchbox kid.

FYI from https://status.epicgames.com -- "Purchase issues in Epic Games
Store Investigating - We are investigating an issue where players are
unable to complete a purchase in the Epic Games Store. Dec 27, 2024 -
16:59 UTC" from
https://www.reddit.com/r/AppHookup/comments/1hnhyut/windows_hot_wheels_unleashed_5999_free_toy_cars/m42ebew/. 
We'll just have to wait. If they can't fix it by 8 AM PST tomorrow, then
they owe us an extension to get this free game or else... ;)
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