Epic Games General Thread - Its time to talk about what the AAA gaming industry does not understand about the PC console.

im just saying that on 4chan if i have a shit opinion on a video game or a movie, i get called a nigger. on reddit, im told that my dislike of game x is because im secretly racist/sexist/transphobic, then they scroll through my profile and see that at 10:09 PM PST on august 3rd 2015 i said the n word on the internet and thus, i am to be shunned by the rest of society.
 
So i went and took a peek, yeah, 4chin is just plebbit nowadays.
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Piracy bad even though Timmay already has paid for the copies and the income of the devs is guaranteed. Piracy bad even though due to retarded regional restrictions you can't legally get some content. Piracy man bad!!!11

Sure, it's cherrypicking, given the rest of the thread is still dropping some bombs on EGS, but perhaps that just shows the scale of their shittiness being known.

Here's the archive, just because. http://archive.li/opUWK
 
The thing about 4chan is that, unfortunately, it's compromised. The days of being able to bring awareness to things, let alone conduct activism on it, are long since past, and the place has gotten an infestation of Social Justice garbage (and correspondingly, insufferable /pol/tards convinced they're fighting the good fight) on virtually every board. Normally they fall into the background radiation in 4chan's ocean of piss, and Anonymity means they can't simply scrub the pervasive presence of shitlordom entirely - but if the proletariat gets too uppity, the mods will descend like a pack of jackals and shut down everything until the wrongthink stops. It's happened before.

ZMOT's post gives me a good excuse to get into why 4chan got into this situation in the first place, so needs must.

raids and doxxing always got punished hard even years prior to GG, not sure if the latter even has legal ramifications. when GG kicked off after 5guys&fries it had all the markings of an new chanology, and even if not it was obvious there would be a lot of shitflinging and other crap. tbh I probably wouldn't have done anything different in that scenario, it simply would've been (and was) way too big a headache even without the fappening, no matter the personal stance. but then moot could never be arsed to put in IDs or containment stickys either, so moderation was always kinda shit.

ZMOT makes good observations here, but there's a part of the puzzle that's missing - namely that m00t making the current infestation happen was completely intentional, and it began with m00t capitulating over GG. I bring your attention now to the mod leaks from m00t's inner circle:

[9/18/14 12:06 AM] moot: Why the fuck didn't you react sooner
[9/18/14 12:06 AM] moot: I guess it was my fault, but you could have done this without me
[9/18/14 12:06 AM] [REDACTED 1]: sorry m8, i was not sure what to do
[9/18/14 12:07 AM] [REDACTED 1]: but like
[9/18/14 12:07 AM] [REDACTED 1]: they would, like the angry fucks they are, rage because "MUH FREESPEECH" kek
[9/18/14 12:07 AM] moot: I JUST WANTED TO DOX A GIRL BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T SUPPORT HARASSING GAME DEVELOPERS
[9/18/14 12:07 AM] [REDACTED 2]: Moot, I hate to break it to ya, but it's not working
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] [REDACTED 3]: I fucking wish it worked but there are so many fucking people, it's too hard to stop them
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] moot: It's pissing me the fuck off too, believe me
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] moot: Where the hell are the other moderators? They don't display as online
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] [REDACTED 1]: mods are kill
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] [REDACTED 4]: It's late, moot, so excuse me if my posting is a bit sloppy
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] moot: This meeting is one of the most important we've ever had, EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE HERE
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] [REDACTED 2]: We've had like 800 discussions since Gamerhate started
[9/18/14 12:08 AM] [REDACTED 5]: ----'s gonna be late. he told me his computer BSOD'd
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] moot: It's fine. I called in 20 people, he's pretty much nothing more than an ally
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 6]: IS THIS ABOUT GAMERGATE, OR JUST MORE BORINGASS TECH DISCUSSION
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 2]: Gamergate...
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] moot: I told you in the email it's about Gamergate
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 7]: is this all this is?
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 7]: are we seriously getting up in arms about a bunch of stupid fucking nerds making posts about some game dev
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 8]: Ayyyyye lmao
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 3]: aye m8
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 6]: I'm glad we're addressing the issue in a hostile way, they don't respect us otherwise
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 4]: Who gives a fuck about respect? This is about ending all harassment and bad reputation going to 4chan
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] moot: It used to be about that
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] moot: Now, we're fighting an army of stupid fucking nerds instead of just a bunch
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 7]: i've been kind of out of it since that bomb threat
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] [REDACTED 9]: hi
[9/18/14 12:09 AM] moot: I feel for you. It's hard to ignore Gamergate to me, when I'M GETTING FUCKING DEATH THREATS
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 1]: why would anyone want to threaten mootsan my lord and savior
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 6]: I got a death threat too, but the person sending it lived on the other side of the world, like wtf lol
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] moot: Fuck this waiting, I'm shaking, I need to tell my unfiltered thoughts NOW
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 3]: You sound distressed
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 10]: I ARRIVED IN TIME OMG
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 2]: It's been 5 minutes, Christ
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 4]: Dammit I fucking hate those nerds
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] moot: I'm gonna gather up everything that's happened, and info dump you all
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] moot: Everyone else, just stay idle until I give the "head's up"
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] moot: I'll be back!
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 10]: I just got here and already moot's gone ;_;
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 9]: he'll be back
[9/18/14 12:10 AM] [REDACTED 3]: Perfect time for me to take a shower if Moot's preparing a speech or whatevs
[9/18/14 12:11 AM] [REDACTED 5]: I think we can leave until Moot gets bafk
[9/18/14 12:12 AM] [REDACTED 2]: It's such a travesty when out fellow brothers gets depressed
[9/18/14 12:12 AM] [REDACTED 6]: Well damn

break in chat, for the next 30 minutes there are only 4 posts, pointless to leave in

[9/18/14 12:41 AM] moot: My speech is done. Horrifying revelations have been revealed.
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 11]: OH SHIT
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 1]: MUH GAWD
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 2]: I'm ready!!!
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] moot: This cannot get out. They will be fucking pissed beyond belief if it gets out
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 4]: Moot, what happened to the other mods. There are only 12 of us online...
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] moot: Timezone issues I assume. I'm not going to fault them, but I told them about this last night
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] moot: They could've just said "I can't come" instead of leaving me hanging. Oh well.
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 5]: We're listening, man
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 3]: I haven't been this anxious since the Chris-Chan debatacle ffs
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] moot: Chris-Chan was some weird autistic kid. This is nowhere close to that.
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 7]: it's weird how just a month ago we were all like "huh well isn't this interesting"
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 1]: hurry up with the speech moot
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 2]: I'm anxious too m8
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] moot: Hold the fuck on, damn
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 7]: but now it's become so enticing, a disgusting perverted issue that is a war between rational people who just want to support women, and lanky disgusting fucks who can't stand the idea of a woman having sex
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 1]: you know what they say
[9/18/14 12:42 AM] [REDACTED 6]: I arrived just in time wtf
[9/18/14 12:43 AM] [REDACTED 1]: dumbfucks gonna dumbfuck
[9/18/14 12:43 AM] moot: Read this thoroughly before responding, don't post while I'm posting:
[9/18/14 12:43 AM] [REDACTED 2]: It's habbnin'
[9/18/14 12:43 AM] moot: Cracked sent me an email a few days ago
[9/18/14 12:43 AM] moot: The same day Zoe issued her article, to be exact
[9/18/14 12:43 AM] moot: They told me they are strong supporters of the Social Justice Movement, and are through sitting behind while the harassment goes on
[9/18/14 12:44 AM] moot: They said if I didn't stop Gamergate on 4chan, they would write an article that "exposes" 4chan for the "true cesspit" it is. They're also going to basically get feminists to hack in and take down my site.
[9/18/14 12:44 AM] moot: And coincidentally, I got a letter that threatened to lynch me in the streets, from a group of hackers who strongly support feminism.
[9/18/14 12:44 AM] moot: A day before this, I went to see Anita speak at XOXO, and she was absolutely lovely. Behind the scenes, I got to have a word with her. We hit it off perfect, and we're now friends through online communication.
[9/18/14 12:44 AM] moot: I told her my situation, and her advice was to get my mods to delete everything Gamergate on site.
[9/18/14 12:44 AM] moot: I was reluctant, but after that day, I did what she said. You all remember the day I told you to delete Gamergate shit, we were convinced it would work.
[9/18/14 12:44 AM] moot: But it didn't fucking work.
[9/18/14 12:45 AM] moot: That hacker group is real btw.
[9/18/14 12:45 AM] moot: They've been sending more letters to my house, and emails to my personal address.
[9/18/14 12:45 AM] moot: Funny thing is, I still support them more than I do Gamergate.
[9/18/14 12:45 AM] moot: So, that's why I'm so worried. I got Cracked making threats and a group threatening to take down my site.
[9/18/14 12:45 AM] moot: The two are very powerful, and can get done what they say they want to get done.

...mostly just reiterating and people reacting for the next few minutes, nothing noteworthy.
here's where the real dirt begins:

[9/18/14 12:59 AM] [REDACTED 2]: The Internet Aristocrat's real name is ------ - ------- and it turns out he has a real job at ------------. Maybe, we could call him at work and get him fired because of his shameless support of harassment?
[9/18/14 12:59 AM] [REDACTED 3]: Holy hell, how did you find that?
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 2]: A friend who used to know him. The Aristocrat's a disgusting human being, he deserves it.
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 10]: We have dox on a lot of Gamergate supporters.
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 10]: Nero and MundaneMatt among others.
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] moot: While I don't advocate doxing, maybe this could play into our advantage.
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 5]: Couldn't we just scare the supporters off?
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] moot: Scaring them off could take work.
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 6]: Tell them we got dox because they posted in /v/
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 8]: What the hell, you're not legitimately considering this are you?
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 8]: They could find out it was us.
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] [REDACTED 1]: we can use firewalls, lol
[9/18/14 1:00 AM] moot: I'm reluctant, but not unwilling to try that.
[9/18/14 1:01 AM] [REDACTED 8]: Fine, but what about the people using proxies?
[9/18/14 1:01 AM] [REDACTED 5]: There are more people without proxies than people with proxies.
[9/18/14 1:01 AM] moot: ^ We can get rid of most of them.
[9/18/14 1:01 AM] [REDACTED 5]: I'll work on the idea. Maybe, get in one normie supporter so it looks legit.
[9/18/14 1:01 AM] moot: Nice. Sometimes hostility is the answer. Not all the time, but sometimes.

it all gets kind of un-noteworthy after that, but the last thing i mentioned...

[9/18/14 1:31 AM] [REDACTED 5]: What about that new site you mentioned earlier?
[9/18/14 1:31 AM] moot: I got Tumblr's support on the project. I'm still brainstorming though...
[9/18/14 1:31 AM] [REDACTED 1]: any ideas?
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] [REDACTED 8]: Tumblr? You're not going SJW on me are you?
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] moot: Fuck off. Speak with me in IM. I've got a word to have with you.
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] [REDACTED 7]: you can support social justice without being from tumblr, dipshit
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] moot: In response to ------, I have no current ideas.
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] [REDACTED 1]: what about 4chan?
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] [REDACTED 3]: #BurnDown4chan
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] [REDACTED 5]: 4chan's ride never ends. It just gets more disgusting and disturbing as you go along
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] moot: I'll have to rebuild it from the ground up, or I'll sell it to someone else.
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] [REDACTED 7]: Why would you be worried about hackers taking it down if you yourself want to take it down?
[9/18/14 1:32 AM] moot: I said sell it, not shut it down.
[9/18/14 1:33 AM] [REDACTED 7]: Either way, can you make sure to permanently ban everyone who's posted in Gamergate threads?
[9/18/14 1:33 AM] [REDACTED 4]: Yeah, if you want to rebuild 4chan, the first step is banning EVERY. SINGLE. GAMERGATE. SUPPORTER.
[9/18/14 1:33 AM] moot: It'll take a lot of work, but I'll probably do that.
[9/18/14 1:33 AM] moot: Don't know yet.

Now, the log itself is easy to doubt, at first glance, so one might assume there's no way to confirm its contents directly, since we don't have anyone who was actually in the logs spilling the tea, and unlike the CON leaks, we don't have them responding to events in real time alongside the timestamps to basically guarantee it's legit.

There are parts we absolutely can confirm, though. They do mention events that were happening in the exact same time-frame, including Zoe's Cracked article (which did, indeed, drop 2 days before this is dated), and Anita's appearance at XOXOFest that year, which m00t absolutely did attend several times over the years, and most notably, the very year in question:

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Those together requires an autistic attention to detail a bit above the level of your average hoax, but doesn't discount that, so let's add additional corraborating evidence to see if we can get to the bottom of this:

First, Zoe's supporters were and still are infamous for going knives-out on behalf of Zoe. Any platform that was daring to give a place for GG discussion was getting people trying to shut that shit down, even on places that by all accounts, no one should ever have cared about Gamergate on. On Channel Awesome, for example, Lindsay Ellis and her coterie of useless tagalongs basically mandated that everyone on Channel Awesome take a stand against GG and support Zoe, despite the overpowering bulk of the site not knowing who in the fuck she was, driving a massive ideological rift in the website in the process. This one is especially noticable because Dan Olson and Kyle Oancitizen both declared that anyone who doubted blowey Zoe was an innocent victim who did nothing wrong was guilty of the worst kind of misogyny, and they intended to out anyone who wouldn't toe the line. Sound familiar?

On The Escapist, Bob Chipman and Jim Sterling demanded GamerGate be verboten, and when the site's owners wouldn't cooperate, Jim ragequit the site declaring that they were "giving a platform to madmen." Chippy continued to sperg about GG until The Escapist inevitably fired his ass. Even after both these fat useless Social Justice apologists left, their buddies on the forums did their damnedest to lock down GG discussion on The Escapist, basically preventing any narrative but their own from getting out. About a third of the Crash Override logs center around them trying to spam reports against 8chan to its hosts in order to strip it of its ability to operate. They were absolutely relentless in these early days, and that was a big part of why Gamergate Streisand Effected as hard as it did. We know why they did this from the CON Leaks: They believed that if they deplatformed GG hard enough (by deplatforming it and destroying its leadership), they could break the back of the movement. Remember that, because it's going to be relevant later.

Furthermore, we also know that m00t had been cozying up to various groups on Twitter to help support his new venture that wasn't 4chan. Bribing is something several of the big names in GG opposition were known to have done; Gawker is known to have bribed their way into moderatorship on reddit in order to purge content critical of it, for example. Several of those big names were ones m00t was palling around with at the time, including Cracked, which m00t mentions specifically in the log. Moreover, several of them are confirmed to have donated money to his new project. It's not a stretch to imagine that he was paid to ban GG when CON was already paying Ryulong and several other speds to do the exact same thing on other websites.

Next, we know that in the logs above, m00t devised a plan to end GamerGate by doxing and threatening the people who support it and then telling them he did it by getting their IP's off of 4chan. Why does this suggest they're legit? Because that is exactly what fucking happened. 4chan had a group of Zoe's supporters that aggressively went after various individuals that they saw as "leaders" in GG, like Slade Villena, Milo Yiannopolous, and so on. In other words, they were doing exactly what CON's expressed marching orders were: trying to intimidate GG into submission what and aggressively attacking anyone who could be perceived as a leader within GG did: The exact same fucking thing that Zoe's supporters did in the CON and Trello log leaks. This is further backed by that one dude from the DOD that 4chan's idiots allegedly doxed, back before Ethan Ralph completely lost his mind, but not believing that one I'll forgive because it's Ethan fucking Ralph.

Now, obviously, we can't say with absolute certainty that m00t was in on the take on this one. We can certainly fucking imply it, however, given what we know now. The aftermath, of course, of all this is history: 4chan's aggressive attempt to lock down GG discussion was the opening of the proverbial floodgates - there was zero question that after m00t took the stance he did that the mods at the site got infinitely worse, and did so with a very specific ideological bend. Even if all of the above speculation was ultimately bullshit (which I sincerely doubt, given how much we have right now), 4chan as a whole is a hollowed shell of the place it once was. The very nature of 4chan means that the site will never be free of people calling one another all sorts of hilariously filthy insults, but the era of the site being a haven of free speech is over, and it was the usual suspects who acted as the heralds of the apocalypse.
 
Now, the log itself is easy to doubt
I've read it before and i don't buy any of it, to be frank. Even then, regardless whether the log was real or not, GG split up 4chin hard and accelerated its downfall.
The log has many buzzwords, and having spoken to moot and having seen him speak, this isn't in character in the least, and fits so many tickboxes of what "people want to see" it reeks of being fabricated. I bet anyone who lurked on 4chin irc would feel the very same, as he commonly talked with people there.

Also the site has had a mod ticketing/notification system since its start, there'd be no reason to send an email of a meeting, really, and mootlet referring to people as "nerds" in a derogatory context would be funny considering he used to call himself that on the regular.

The log being most likely faked doesn't explain the other stuff, of course
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I finally downloaded the Epic Launcher, because I wanted to play that Untitled Goose Game. I loathe having two different launchers on my desktop, but I'm also boomer enough to remember the old days when you'd have a million launchers on your desktop for every individual game, so.... eh?

Goose game is a really dumb, really fun game. Worth the $15 to fuck around and make kids hide in phone booths while you honk at them. Or stealing a gardner's "no geese" sign, because fuck him and fuck his dumb sign.
 
I finally downloaded the Epic Launcher, because I wanted to play that Untitled Goose Game. I loathe having two different launchers on my desktop, but I'm also boomer enough to remember the old days when you'd have a million launchers on your desktop for every individual game, so.... eh?

Goose game is a really dumb, really fun game. Worth the $15 to fuck around and make kids hide in phone booths while you honk at them. Or stealing a gardner's "no geese" sign, because fuck him and fuck his dumb sign.

Sounds like flavor of the month shit. Pass.

Edit: Looks like the Epic drones are at it again!
 
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So Call of Duty has given Playstation a 1 Year Exclusive to Survival Mode.

I wonder where they got this idea from? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM............................ITS A MYSTERY! This is so good for the consumer right? A great trend you started Epic, you fucking faggots.
 
but I'm also boomer enough to remember the old days when you'd have a million launchers on your desktop for every individual game, so.... eh?
I have been buying games digitally since the only delivery option was literally snail mail, and i do not remember this ever being the case. The most launchers i've ever had installed simultaneously (and even then only one of them autostarting) was with GOG, Desura and Steam. GOG Launcher isn't needed for anything and Desura was really shitty indie platform that died when Steam said "greenlight", so instead of curating everything internally, they let anyone and everyone put out content on it for a nominal fee.

I'm not going to tell you that spending 15bux on something idiotic isn't worth it, but what i've seen of the Goose game is that it's literally an asset flip with a week to a month of work put into it. There's a number of these games around that'll likely never be completed or polished as of recent, like that bird skateboarding game. Joke games are the product of gamejams, keep them there.
So Call of Duty has given Playstation a 1 Year Exclusive to Survival Mode.
The length is definitely suspect but console-specific timed exclusives have been a thing in CoD before. Even then most of them have been a couple of weeks or a month. According to the press that be pretty much everyone is furious. I'm just waiting for that kotaku/polygon article that'll draw the line that the people who act like this are racist, because there's at least one black guy involved somewhere.
 
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So Call of Duty has given Playstation a 1 Year Exclusive to Survival Mode.

I wonder where they got this idea from? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM............................ITS A MYSTERY! This is so good for the consumer right? A great trend you started Epic, you fucking faggots.
Its not actually started from Epic, it actually started from Microsoft. during the very early years of 360, MS moneyhatted exclusives and exclusive content for games that are multiplatform or sometimes timed exclusives, the practice remained the same for Xbone. Sony did the same with I believe one of the Assasins Creed PS3 games. I believe the PS3 Batman Arkham games got some PS content exclusive as well.

So, if you have someone to blame, its Microsoft. They started the paid networking trend, timed exclusives, content exclusives, microtransactions.
 
Yeah, timed exclusives on AAA titles are actually pretty common in the console realm, and predate EGS by like a decade. EGS is mostly hated for bringing that gay shit to the PC realm (which sometimes had to deal with console timed exclusives effecting it, but never internal timed exclusives tied to a single store).
 
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The length is definitely suspect

iirc destiny content had the same exclusivity period, and it's not the first cod exclusive thing either (can't remember how long it was but think it was way shorter).

So, if you have someone to blame, its Microsoft. They started the paid networking trend, timed exclusives, content exclusives, microtransactions.

don't forget the platform parity bullshit. but everybody was retarded during that gen, like sony pushing shootem ups onto their competitors "because everything has to be 3d".
 
I finally downloaded the Epic Launcher, because I wanted to play that Untitled Goose Game. I loathe having two different launchers on my desktop, but I'm also boomer enough to remember the old days when you'd have a million launchers on your desktop for every individual game, so.... eh?

Goose game is a really dumb, really fun game. Worth the $15 to fuck around and make kids hide in phone booths while you honk at them. Or stealing a gardner's "no geese" sign, because fuck him and fuck his dumb sign.
No indie exclusive is worth the trouble of trusting Epic with any personal info, or using burner info just for them if you ask me. It’s pretty dumb to download a launcher that just suffered a data breach a month ago, and barely works in the first place for one indie game that’s gonna be on safer, more stable platforms later anyway.
 
so i got a receipt for a game i got for free from epic
today
for a game i got
on the 19th

This happened to me as well. Got the free batman games.. got my receipt a week later. I panicked for a minute thinking somehow someone had got into my account and bought shit before I remembered I never put my credit card info in their systems because lol.
 
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