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[Jauwn] The Epic Games Store is a Landfill for Crypto Shovelware
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Surprised Pikachu face
Yall actually buy games on Epic and don't just log in once a week for your weekly freebie?
There's other places on the internet to get free games, and they don't require installing a client.
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At least the Beanie Baby people still had little stuffed animals to console themselves with.
I made a account ages ago and got two or three free games but I can't find it anymore and honestly don't really give a shit ether, I got more than enough unplayed games on Steam!
Yeah but I've gotten some absolutely stellar games for free. The ones that cone to mind are Satisfactory, Subnautica, and Prey. Well worth it
Satisfactory was never given away for free.
Huh. I don't remember buying it. Great game though.
Prey is the one game that I don't think I ever would have played without an epic account, that I'm glad I have
Still not giving them a cent though
I had Ark which I want to play for over five years by now but considering I never thought about it again till now it's probably not the biggest loss!
Dodged a bullet.
Death Stranding and the Bioshock trilogy. Still haven't played them though lol
I did like Death Stranding. Which surprised me because it feels like a bonkers indie game about a post-apocalyptic Deliveroo driver, but inexplicably given a $100m AAA budget. He still can't write dialogue for shit, all the celebrity cameos are hilariously out of place, almost nothing makes any sense until the last 20 minutes, and there's grind in awkward places.
And in spite of everything, I can't help but admire the unapologetic nature of the concept. It's kind of like Red Dead Redemption 2, in that it goes against everything gamers normally want, to the point you can almost hear the boardroom full of middlemen getting frustrated that there's not enough shooting, or wondering where there the multiplayer funbucks are.
I'm just grabbing the free games on EGS anyway.
So many free games I never play.
I'm quite happy I never bit the bullet with them. Makes watching from the sidelines more entertaining.
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This channel is a gem, a great look into the "bright" future crypto games hold for us
I think the problem is the focus on making crypto games, instead of using cryptocurrencies as a tool to solve a real problem.
For example, it could be interesting to make a cryptocurrency that doesn't connect to any exchanges for trading in-game items. Cryptocurrencies can be tracked through every transaction, so user accounts involved in transactions involving real money could be penalized, so it could be a tool for preventing abuse of the currency. I'm not sure if it would actually work, but it could be an interesting experiment to allow a currency to exist across games but not turn into a monster.
But when cryptocurrency is the gimmick, player experience will take a backseat and it'll suck.
What would this solve that a simple database couldn't? If the currency can only be used to trade for in game items, what practical value does it gain from being a crypto currency as opposed to just WOW gold or whatever? It's just some points that the game developer tallies up in a ledger somewhere, right?
A cryptocurrency that doesn't connect to an exchange is just a ledger with extra steps.
It'd only be useful if the game itself was decentralized too. Otherwise any problems will just find the weak point. So in 20 years when the company goes under, the whole thing would need to keep working without them.
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The whole issue is that crypto is supposed to be an incentive for contributing compute resources to a Blockchain. The value of those tokens are inherently linked to the value of the applications the Blockchain supports. The downfall of every crypto system has been the inversion of this fundamental relationship - you can't bootstrap a Blockchain app just by pumping the tokens, because people holding tokens for speculation don't contribute resources to the mesh.
Blockchain needs a killer app first. And crypto needs serious anti-speculation measures which incentives liquidity of the tokens.
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I wasn’t going to watch the video, because I thought the title of the thread was funny enough. I’m glad I did. Ugh.
That wojak funko pop they show at 1:18 is hillarious.
Wonder if someone actually made it?
I searched wojak funko pop but i get nothing in return...
Must be photoshoped.
Wow.
No way.
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