How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game • Hacker News Board

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by account42 » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 10:42 AM UTC

gamblor956 wrote: post #103

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a crappy store that seeks to compete with the dominant market player not through being better, but through throwing shit-tons of money at timed exclusives. Which itself isn't really that bad, but it doubled down on being hated when it started snatching up community funded games that were otherwise intended for release on several other platforms.

Epic is a better store for game creators. It's about on par with or better than what Steam was when it first launched. Steam was an absolute clusterfuck when it first launched, and Valve only got away with it because they tied Half Life 2 to Steam.

Steam launched 16 years ago. Saying Epic is at most 16 years behind is not really a good argument.

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 1:07 PM UTC

bloody-crow wrote: post #168

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're possibly right about the relevancy, the figures aren't accurate either. Your final sentence seems to contradict the rest of the paragraph. If the games are the same price, why are you choosing EGS (to contribute more to the company? but that would be choosing a game store).

I guess I was trying to illustrate to point that I don't choose the store, but games. Choosing stores only kicks in when multiple stores are available for the same game, which rarely happens.

Thanks for the clarification.

Re: How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

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Post by superbeef150 » Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 7:50 PM UTC

wl wrote: post #110

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It nearly got me to purchase something on the Epic Store. Nearly.

The Epic Store won't allow me to create an account because I was a victim of reverse identity theft ( https://www.xkcd.com/1279/ ) years ago. I guess Epic doesn't want me buying this or any other game from them. Too bad this game is only available there.

If someone else registered with an email address you actually own, why not just reset the password?

I'm guessing you wouldn't be screwing over whoever registered the account, since presumably they wouldn't have had a chance to validate their (your) email address.