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Gamers making a mountain out of a molehill Any%
(hexbear.net)
Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you're being slightly inconvenienced.
Pretty much what happened is it wasn't advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it's Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.
And it's funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of "Sure it sucks, but there's a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry."
Ubisoft is awful about this. My kids couldn't play Immortals on Xbox because it required a Ubisoft account to even play singleplayer, but they're too young to make accounts, so they got stuck in an endless loop until we figured out to set the entire system in offline mode. Why is this a thing? Who does it help?
They get to point to registered accounts in quarterly shareholder meetings.