I was learning unreal engine, but I guess it’s time to switch to Godot.
I’m surprised Disney would be the reason. Epic has enough reasons all on their own.
Godot is honestly just so much nicer to use. I switched to it back in the day because of that after using Unreal and Unity. I didn’t even know what open source was at that point, I just liked it more.
Tencent, now Disney… Who’s next, Satan himself? Hitler resurrected from the dead?
Has Elon had a hand in it yet?
The rumor was that they bought part of Tencent share… but not sure if that was confirmed. If that’s better or not, not sure…
Well the launcher can hardly get any worse.
Today I found out there’s no way to change the default install location. And I learned this just today because I so rarely use it. Why is this launcher such a mess. It’s seriously like they’re not even trying.
There are open source implementations of their launcher. Specifically there’s “legendary”, which is the thing that can download and launch games (this is a command line tool). Fortunately there’s also “Heroic”, which will use legendary in the background and give you a normal/usable user interface, desktop shortcuts and so on. Also doesn’t work like spyware for epic on your computer, as their own store/launcher does.
That’s honestly good to know, thanks!
Although it is kind of telling that in order to use their launcher without getting a stroke your best bet is an alternative launcher. Still, I’m going to have a look at Heroic. Would be a shame to never touch all those free games just because Epic sucks so much.
It only exists so they don’t have to give steam their cut. They don’t have much incentive to do anything else as long as they know they have exclusives locked down like Fortnite that bring in the cash
You can’t? I’ve only ever used it once, in the past few years, and I installed Fortnite* to my external hard drive. Was on a Mac though, maybe there it’s different. But yeah it’s still godawful.
* my friends unfortunately managed to convince me to try to play it (didn’t work in the end since they stopped building it for Mac and my main gaming machine is Linux)
You can change the directory manually for every single install. But a default install path for your games - nope.
Hmm, I thought it saved the path I entered. Might be wrong though.
I wonder what percentage stake that will give them. Tencent owns 40% of Epic.
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They will probably pull their games from steam next.
They will probably pull their games from steam next.
Oh no.
Anyways…
And what, put them on Disney+?
No I’m more thinking they would remove them and keep them exclusive on epic as they are part owners now. Sure the games are shit but that is not the point
Oh Disney has games on steam?
Yup. There’s a few old re-releases there, not sure if they’re patched up for modern Windows though. Actually, they had a publisher sale on Steam quite recently.
And not just that, when they acquired LucasFilm they not only got a backlog of old Star Wars and Indiana Jones games already on Steam, but also Sam & Max Hit the Road. AFAIK Sam & Max is an independent franchise but LucasArts and thus Disney own the rights to Hit the Road.
I doubt they’d pull their games off of Steam. Disney are interested in Fortnite as a content delivery platform, not in EGS
I have been blindsided before, but honestly right now I’m in the same boat on that. Disney isn’t interested in app deployment or distribution, just to advertise their products to kids.
And even so, my copy of SAMHTR is still on my Steam account and the files are there to use with ScummVM (which I believe LucasArts actually did when the game hit Steam)
Sam & Max is Double Fine if I’m not mistaken
I think the new games are, Hit the Road was LucasArts and was part of Disney’s publisher sale on Steam a little while back.
Whatevs been boycotting both for years.
Boo, epic sucks.
I guess it’s good they already sold Bandcamp then? Still pissed they ever bought it in the first place.