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

[Suck the Cock]

It's hard to know how to react to this. For all we like to make fun of Epic, they've traditionally handled Fortnite like the cash cow it is. They wouldn't let their money run dry, they wouldn't fuck it up like they did the store. It has to be a marketing stunt, but what's the stunt? People can't play? Sure, it can raise a bit of hype, a bit of absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. Is it worth the lost money from people who can't use the store when they otherwise would?

 

[Hideous K]

It's hard to know how to react to this. For all we like to make fun of Epic, they've traditionally handled Fortnite like the cash cow it is. They wouldn't let their money run dry, they wouldn't fuck it up like they did the store. It has to be a marketing stunt, but what's the stunt? People can't play? Sure, it can raise a bit of hype, a bit of absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. Is it worth the lost money from people who can't use the store when they otherwise would?

It possible that there's a Et Tu Brutè at Epic, when you overwork your employment so much then there's a chance there will be a very disgruntled employees that done much of the legwork, practically took hostage over everything that Epic owens now including their cash cow Fortnite.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Fortnite got actually better

 

[vertexwindi]

I actually heard about this on the radio. Whatever it's gonna end up marketing though, it'll be disappointing.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

A lot of people are saying "This is just temporary, it's because of the new season!" without taking half a second to realize that this hasn't happened before during any of the season launches. And if it WAS just because of the new season, why is the store itself down and people unable to play any of their games? Why has pretty much every tweet they've ever made been scrubbed?

Now, let's assume this ISN'T something shady/incompetent and is in fact a marketing gimmick of some sort. What sort of utter fucking dipshit thinks this is a good idea?
"Hey faggots, we're completely willing to cut off access to all the games you bought from us without warning, explanation, or even an eta for when you can play them again just to get a bit of attention!"

It's insanely unprofessional, and potentially even illegal to deprive customers access to a product they paid for intentionally for media or marketing. I wouldn't trust a company that does shit like that, and anyone who would is goddamn exceptional.

 

[Kane Lives]

Is it still actually down?

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I guess this is why I had 2 people come in overnight and buy PS4s complaining that their computer was broken and wouldn't load Fortnite.

 

[BrunoMattei]

So people can't even access the Epic store to play the games they bought from there?

 

[Colloid]

So people can't even access the Epic store to play the games they bought from there?

Yup, Fortnite took the whole launcher down with it for awhile at least.
https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1183461807970754562

 

[Bush did USS Maine]

It's hard to know how to react to this. For all we like to make fun of Epic, they've traditionally handled Fortnite like the cash cow it is. They wouldn't let their money run dry, they wouldn't fuck it up like they did the store. It has to be a marketing stunt, but what's the stunt? People can't play? Sure, it can raise a bit of hype, a bit of absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. Is it worth the lost money from people who can't use the store when they otherwise would?

Talking about money running dry, what about the large portion of the customer base that rely on their parent's money to buy stuff? There has to be some subset out there of parents who spent money on this game for their kid, only to find out now that the game is (currently) unplayable and the company is radio silent. What percentage of them are going to be hesitant to buy digital clothes again when the game comes back up?

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Holy shit the whole store went down because of fucking Fartnite. Fucking hilarious. Epic failure games.

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

Talking about money running dry, what about the large portion of the customer base that rely on their parent's money to buy stuff? There has to be some subset out there of parents who spent money on this game for their kid, only to find out now that the game is (currently) unplayable and the company is radio silent. What percentage of them are going to be hesitant to buy digital clothes again when the game comes back up?

You should see all the videos on YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, basically ever social media site you can find through Google if children going mental and/or crying their eyes out while staring at this black hole for 24 goddamn hours waiting for something to happen.

It’s fucking hilarious.

 

[Colloid]

You should see all the videos on YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, basically ever social media site you can find through Google if children going mental and/or crying their eyes out while staring at this black hole for 24 goddamn hours waiting for something to happen.

It’s fucking hilarious.

"A lancher's only job is to launch games. Nothing else matters."
Where is your god now Epic shills?

 

[BrunoMattei]

I'm guessing they're doing some server back end and engine shit but holy shit is this poorly planned on Epic's part.

 

[Slimy Time]

Yup, Fortnite took the whole launcher down with it for awhile at least.
https://twitter.com/EpicGames/status/1183461807970754562
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Can someone tech literate explain to me how the fuck a game on a game launcher can crash it competely? That to me is amazing. What were they doing? Were they installing more gook spyware, keyloggers and shit that syphons data from your computer on it, screwed up and crashed the launcher?

 

[vertexwindi]

Can someone tech literate explain to me how the fuck a game on a game launcher can crash it competely? That to me is amazing. What were they doing? Were they installing more gook spyware, keyloggers and shit that syphons data from your computer on it, screwed up and crashed the launcher?

What happened was that Fortnite's BR mode disappeared in some weird cosmic event marketing stunt, and a huge amount of players logged into the EGS to try and find out what's going on. The EGS wasn't built to support a huge amount of players like that and went down as a result. It seems they weren't expecting people to do that, which is dumb as shit because what did they expect to happen? Then again it's Epic.

 

[InsolentGaylord]

You should see all the videos on YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, basically ever social media site you can find through Google if children going mental and/or crying their eyes out while staring at this black hole for 24 goddamn hours waiting for something to happen.

It’s fucking hilarious.

Oh god can you please link to one of the videos of children crying about it? I gotta see it.

 

[ZehnBoat]

What happened was that Fortnite's BR mode disappeared in some weird cosmic event marketing stunt, and a huge amount of players logged into the EGS to try and find out what's going on. The EGS wasn't built to support a huge amount of players like that and went down as a result. It seems they weren't expecting people to do that, which is dumb as shit because what did they expect to happen? Then again it's Epic.

EPIC GONNA REPLACE STEAM GUYS!!

 

[OmnipotentStupidity]

Oh god can you please link to one of the videos of children crying about it? I gotta see it.

Ask and you shall receive.

(Picking out the Twitter ones because those are easier to search for. Might add more later)

h o l l o w 🦁 on Twitter

“Come one now Fortnite... #TheEnd https://t.co/2rFkW3VbtP”

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Vanessa Martin on Twitter

“These kids are deadass crying about Fortnite IM DEAD https://t.co/rIu6T9fiwX”

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Rachel Lucero on Twitter

“Cmon Fortnite.... my kid is crying his head off #ripfortnite https://t.co/lEG7foKPZG”

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As a bonus: have an adult crying as well. Why not?

Max but Dracula on Twitter

“Kids really be crying about fortnite https://t.co/wt6qIJWrpZ”

twitter.com

EDIT: One of the videos in the link got taken down; finding the video again.

EDIT 2: Found it.

 

[SiccDicc]

Ask and you shall receive.

(Picking out the Twitter ones because those are easier to search for. Might add more later)

h o l l o w 🦁 on Twitter

“Come one now Fortnite... #TheEnd https://t.co/2rFkW3VbtP”

twitter.com

Vanessa Martin on Twitter

“These kids are deadass crying about Fortnite IM DEAD https://t.co/rIu6T9fiwX”

twitter.com

Rachel Lucero on Twitter

“Cmon Fortnite.... my kid is crying his head off #ripfortnite https://t.co/lEG7foKPZG”

twitter.com

As a bonus: have an adult crying as well. Why not?

Max but Dracula on Twitter

“Kids really be crying about fortnite https://t.co/wt6qIJWrpZ”

twitter.com

EDIT: One of the videos in the link got taken down; finding the video again.

EDIT 2: Found it.

Never a better time to be a children's psychologist. Business must be booming.