Re: FREE GAME: Hot Wheels Unleashed

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:35:24 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
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candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The
Augury is good, the signs say:

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Oh god, they're /unleashed/? RUN

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But it's epic, so they broke down before they left the parking lot.
Epic, the British Leyland of gaming companies.

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<chuckle>
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It's not so much that Epic's servers crashed under load. I get it; it
happens. (It seems to happen /a lot/ with Epic Game Store, which is
another problem entirely, but it's not the primary reason for my
upset). I suspect that it was the sheer number of DLC available that
kicked their servers into overdrive; had it _just_ been the core game,
the servers probably would have been able to handle it, I think. But
12 items (core game + 11 DLC) was probably just a bit more load than
their shopping carts could handle when tens of thousands of gamers
descended upon it for their daily freebie.
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No, what is truly embarassing is how the client handled the error. Not
only does it expose the cloudflare page to the users (with a very
scary, 'you've been blocked' message that will freak out the rubes and
the sort of thing a storefront should never let a client see), but the
client itself is unable to handle the situation and locks up, forcing
users to kill the process from task-manager. That's just a pathetic
degree of coding. And it's not like this is the first time I've seen
this happen. This sort of incompetence has been going on for a while.
This specific error was new, yes, but not random lockups of the client
when it comes across an error and doesn't know how to deal with it
gracefully.
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So it makes you wonder: is this because Epic just doesn't have any
programming chops to do any better? In which case, why should I
entrust them with my gaming library or payment details? Or do they
just NOT CARE about providing good service, in which case, why should
I trust them with my games?
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People have been telling Epic to improve its client almost from day
one, and Epic has done very little to follow that advice. Yet they
wonder why -outside of Fortnite- they lag behind Valve in attracting
gamers.
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Build a better mousetrap, Epic.

I simply said no to epic completely, I don't care if it's free, it's not
worth installing their garbage client and jumping through hoops.

Steam, yes.
Gog, yes.

Epic, go fuck yourself.

Xocyll