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No. Ubisoft already tried and even gave out a bunch of games for free. Didn’t work.
What is Ubisoft's carrot? They don't command a game engine ecosystem. What can they offer that others do not?
It's a hard pass for me.
Well this makes me feel awkward as a Unity dev. I saw that they'll allow unity based games on their new store but I wonder if that's just for the short term. Kind of makes me wonder if I should've chosen Unreal.
Tons of unity devs switched over to Unreal back in the day. Most came back. Unity is still, by very far, the dominate engine.
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Companies have sought to take money from parents via their children for as long as childrens' products have existed. Epic isn't doing anything new here. At least skins and other virtual assets aren't filling our landfills with plastic crap.
Just to add to that, as a fortnite player, I don't see any glaring psychological attempt to make purchases addicting. Buy shit and you unlock cool outfits, thats it.
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Companies have sought to take money from parents via their children for as long as childrens' products have existed. Epic isn't doing anything new here. At least skins and other virtual assets aren't filling our landfills with plastic crap.
Just to add to that, as a fortnite player, I don't see any glaring psychological attempt to make purchases addicting. Buy shit and you unlock cool outfits, thats it.
I'd be more excited for this much needed competition if it weren't a company that survives by taking advantage of children's naivety of money and natural impulses to sell virtual outfits and animations at sickening prices. App store cuts are ridiculously high, but at least they're not taking candy directly from babies.
If you want to see a game that actively preys on the young you should look into Fifa Ultimate team. It forces you to spend hundreds of dollars opening packs of cards like in hearthstone but in the end of the day all of it goes down the drain because it doesn't carry over to next year's game. This is so absurdly predatory and they keep making it a heavier focus for the game every year.
I wish Valve had pushed harder to compete with Origin, but this looks like the end of its complete dominance. Once EA demonstrated that anybody could hack together a launcher, it's become a free for all. As a consumer it's been a worse and worse experience since increasingly small companies felt the need to replace steam with technically inferior solutions. But this is different-now we get a competitor which is willi…
It wasn't just EA - Blizzard, uPlay, GOG, etc. All with different strengths and weaknesses.
> compete with Origin
Origin is garbage and a reason I won't own games that are connected to it (I really wanted to play ME3 and the newer FarCry's) - as is u(dont)Play (couple games ruined by uPlay that were purchased via Steam... boo)
bNet is decent in that it's contained to only Blizzard so it's very contained.
Valve still has the best platform, hands down.
Now, their gaming division on the other hand... Half Life Episodic content? HL3?
Official announcement - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/announcing-the-epic-... "Developers receive 88% of revenue. There are no tiers or thresholds. Epic takes 12%. And if you’re using Unreal Engine, Epic will cover the 5% engine royalty for sales on the Epic Games store, out of Epic’s 12%." "From Epic’s 12% store fee, we’ll have a profitable business we’ll grow and reinvest in for years to come!" This is gr…
This link has some Q&A with Tim too with more details: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-12-04-fortnite-maker...
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Only sort of. All applications use one master launcher: The operating system. Battle.net, Origin, Steam, etc. all can put desktop shortcuts to individual games.
Having to manage all those accounts, installing all that launcher software, and running always on "agents" is anti-consumer. I've found historically with software that the better something works, the more likely it is to get screwed up. Netflix has made browsing a chore, Amazon Video introduced ads, Spotify is getting clunky as they "optimize" the UI, Gmail taking time to load in 2018 when it didn't in 2015, Android…