Epic Games Store FAILS AGAIN Removes games from customer accounts:
Update:
SidAlpha
Tim Sweeney has responded on Twitter. Here is the link to that response: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1150990046717255682?s=20
While his 2nd post does not make as much sense, I have sent him a DM directly in an attempt to see some of these issues resolved if possible. While I don't exactly have high hopes for a response, I'll make every attempt to help those who have lost games and/or accounts.
TL;DR
EGS has bad security checks/multiple logins (per Swindle's words) and lacking in pro-consumer features + customer support.
EGS removing games was likely caused by multiply accounts.
We1tfunk
Re: the whole thing about multiple logins (per Swindle's words) and such causing the games removal issue...
It still shocks me that the EGS doesn't have some form of basic email verification before you can start purchasing/downloading games or doing anything like that. Because that way you can confirm that YES, that is your email and YES, you own that email. Right now I can make an account with the email TimSwindle@EpicGamesSucks.com and buy games with it without having to verify that I, in fact, own the email.
People make typos, and sometimes they just won't catch it until something like this happens. This is why we figured this out a long time ago with email verification which is literally a goddamned thing on every service you use.
Remember if it's "free" you are the product!. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
I'm looking to add to my community team at Relic Entertainment! If you know of any talented community managers and/or community-focused people that would be great for the role, please let me know! #gamedevelopment
Warhammer 40,000, the adolescent sci-fi favorite that began life as a miniature wargame before spawning novels, video games and even a movie, is set to get its very first small-screen adaptation.
Big Light Productions, led by The Man in the High Castle creator Frank Spotnitz, has teamed with Warhammer 40,000 rights holder Games Workshop on a live-action TV series, Eisenhorn.
The series will be set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, where mankind teeters on the brink of annihilation. While humanity’s armies wage unending war across a million battlefields, in the darkness, a secret conflict rages, fought by the agents of the Imperial Inquisition. Drawing from sci-fi, fantasy and crime genres, Eisenhorn will see Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn and his band of investigators fight to thwart the monstrous schemes of aliens, heretics and demons before mankind’s doom is sealed.
Spotnitz will act as both showrunner and executive producer on the series, which will be based on novels written by New York Times best-selling author Dan Abnett (Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men, The Horus Heresy). Originally published in 2001 by Black Library (Games Workshop’s publishing imprint), the books have been reprinted in multiple languages and have sold over half a million copies globally. Abnett also wrote the script for Warhammer 40,000's only feature-length outing, 2010's Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (which featured a voice cast including Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee and Jon Hurt).
“We are delighted to collaborate with Games Workshop to develop the beloved visionary world of Warhammer 40,000 into a TV series," said Spotnitz in a statement. "Warhammer 40,000 is steeped in rich and complex lore, with a myriad of traditions and stories that have accumulated over time in this thrilling and complex world, making it one of the most exciting properties to adapt for television audiences and the franchise’s loyal global fanbase. There is nothing else like it on television, and we are incredibly excited to tap into our own experience creating imaginative, complex and compelling worlds to bring this incredible saga to the screen."
Added Games Workshop's global head of marketing and media Andy Smillie: "Warhammer 40,000 has a massive global fanbase — they are a passionate community of Warhammer hobbyists who love to engage with our characters, stories and games. I’m truly delighted we are able to develop a show that will reward their loyalty."
Big Light Productions’ creative director Emily Feller (Ordinary Lies, Trust Me, Medici) will also serve as an exec producer on the series.
The moment obtaining currency becomes your prime target in life is the moment you lose your humanity.
The truth is in the money trail and who owns big business/EA? (see below).
There is a price tag on everything, black market or not.
Money = more power. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It's disgusting and also why we need some regulation when the market doesn't self-regulate (EA & Activision clearly won't change).
Also worrisome China becoming the biggest game market and building a new social credit system that influences the gaming industry.
Game studios are now purposefully designing bad systems and mechanics, hoping that people will be willing to pay to get past the poorly-made parts of the service: when microtransactions are the sole source of income, we start to build our entire product around that model.
The guaranteed way to help fight this corporate greed is voting with our wallets.
But that's not even the worst part about it. The worst part about it, as expounded by AlphaOmegaSin so eloquently, is that EA is re-routing negative criticisms about the game by aiming to prevent gamers from giving a score lower than “5” for the game's rating on the Google Play store.
As reported by Joystiq, anything between “1” and “4” will redirect players to EA's feedback page, where-as a perfect “5” will let gamers continue to play.
In simple terms: EA is trying to fix the review aggregate so when unsuspecting customers see the game on the app store, it only shows an average high score (since most people won't be able to give it a low score without going out of their way to do so).
CDPR the new Blizzard? Capitalism is bad?
No I'm not bashing capitalism nor Americans but without good execution, ideas are shit.
Relic balance 'execution' is proof of that.
Hence the saying;"Hell is full of good meanings, but heaven is full of good works".
It's not fair market competition when Wall street have legalized cheating (also called lobbying).
ESA gaming lobby: https://www.theesa.com/
Take a note of the list of members: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_Software_Association#List_of_ESA_members_and_their_subsidiarie
CDPR should be proud about not being on the list.
CDPR (GoG & Cyberpunk 2077): "Think about the gamer, they are not walking wallets"
Who owns big business (and EA): the rise of passive investors/the Big Three
Some observers have lauded this development as the “democratisation of investing”, because it has significantly lowered investor expenses.
But other impacts of this seismic shift are far from democratising. One crucial difference between the active fund and the index fund industries is that the former is fragmented, consisting of hundreds of different asset managers both small and large.
The fast-growing index sector, on the other hand, is highly concentrated. It is dominated by just three giant American asset managers: BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – what we call the Big Three.
*SNIP*
In the S&P 500 – the benchmark index of America’s largest corporations – the situation is even more extreme. Together, the Big Three are the largest single shareholder in almost 90% of S&P 500 firms, including Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Coca-Cola. This is the index in which most people invest.
*SNIP*
Hence, just three companies wield an enormous potential power over corporate America. Interestingly, though, we found that the Big Three vote for management in about 90% of all votes at annual general meetings, while mostly voting against proposals sponsored by shareholders (such as calls for independent board chairmen).
This astounding success gives Vanguard funds an edge over competitors. Yet the world’s second-largest asset manager has avoided drawing attention to it. Top executives at the Malvern, Pennsylvania-based firm don’t want U.S. policymakers looking too closely at how they’re doing it, according to a former insider.
The article quotes a letter from Vanguard CEO Bill McNabb, who said, "In the past, some have mistakenly assumed that our predominantly passive management style suggests a passive attitude with respect to corporate governance. Nothing could be further from the truth."
One of the biggest trends among asset managers in recent years has been the use of artificial intelligence in managing investments. These companies have employed powerful computers to mine massive data sets—including corporate commentary, social media chatter, credit-card data, and other statistics difficult for humans to discern patterns—and then developing portfolios based on that analysis.
https://twitter.com/ZerinaX/status/1146623077913989120
Christina Mikkonen
@ZerinaX
I don’t blame the devs. They want to make games people enjoy. My stance isn’t a black and white OMG I hate everything about Blizz; I don’t. I just disagree with many of their business decisions that come at the cost of people’s livelihood.
https://twitter.com/itsLashes/status/1146508404581474304
Bethany ✨ Lashes
@itsLashes
Just a reminder that there are STILL hundreds of us that are without jobs, myself included.
Last night I had a dream that I got my badge back & was happily working on my projects. It's clear that no matter how hard I try to feel better, the pain still lingers.
Hugs to the 800
https://twitter.com/Onescrappyninja/status/1146588859918159872
Melissa Livingston
@Onescrappyninja
retweetet Christina Mikkonen
This is happening all over Blizzard . My hubby was interviewing people the day he was let go. Now they are hiring for his old job. It’s messed up!!!! So nice to do to someone with special needs children. ( 4 kids at the time and a prego wife )
https://twitter.com/akaWrecks/status/1146583360384438272
@akaWrecks
Years ago was called about a systems engineer gig I didn’t apply for by a recruiter but went though the interview process because fuck yeah blizzard. Offered the job and when I said I will not move to Irvine for 40% market salary and no relo, they just said “someone else will”.
And I’m sure someone did. And that’s why they will keep doing it to people.
I see companies do this so often. Rehiring for less than previous employees or contractors they can dump when they want and allows them to manipulate budgets because they don’t count as headcount.
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