Had some stuff to do yesterday (no, not watching next korean soap!
) so wasn't even aware of snowball all over internet. Everyone is talking about Epic Store and everyone's mother is making comments - some love it as from of competition, some don't care as long as games aren't held hostage by platform (read: exclusive for sakes of selling outdated hardware), some are threatening by "skidrow store" lol
But I think these early reactions are irrelevant, what we should care about is this:
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-epic-store-wont-accept-crappy-games-says-ceo-tim-sweeney/
The Epic Store won't accept 'crappy games,' says Tim Sweeney
"We'll have a quality standard that doesn't accept crappy games," he said. "We'll accept reasonably good quality games, of any scale, whether small indie games to huge triple-A games, and we'll take everything up to, like, an R-rated movie or an M-rated game. A GTA game would be fine to us, but Epic's not going to distribute porn games or bloatware or asset flips, or any sort of thing that's meant to shock players. The PC's an open platform and if we don't distribute it in our store you can still reach consumers directly."
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"We're not going to have something like the console certification process involved in releasing a game," said Sweeney when I asked how Epic would apply this quality standard. "But I think we'll be aware of the quality of what's submitted prior to making a decision to list it in the store—somehow."
Some would expect me to put it in bs thread, but I just can't.
Of course, the perfect store is a store that doesn't sell any mmo and a store that has zero games with microtransactions. Such store doesn't exist - no, not even GOG is immune (gwent).
In a world where you can't choose to pay for a full game and play it fully or not pay once for everything but unlock content through microtransactions, sadly, it's not possible to have a store I'd call an ultimate fair business.
Thus if I kicked the statement above in bs thread, any statement about other stores should go there too which is kinda pointless.
I find that statement very important for two reasons.
Obviously, Epic store doesn't care about Origin, uPlay, GOG, RSC, Battle.net nor Beth store - their "opponent" is Steam. Steam that is flooded with shovelware and halfdone so called early access scams although Greenlight was shut down.
Another reason is refusal to do console certification process. That process on consoles is only milking money from developers on every game patch and it never guaranteed the game people are buying is not crap.
