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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."
All minute and a half of it? I'm all for making fun of gamers but let's not pretend this is some big mobilisation, or even a particular overreaction - people are buying the newest entry in a popular series, opening it to find out it's changed to require EGS, getting annoyed, leaving a negative review and refunding the game. The longest part of the process is waiting for the game to download.
And maybe I'm getting old but I avoid games that require extra launchers too. I already have a game launcher open, if I have to go launch more launchers to launch my game it's just gonna be easier for me to pirate it.