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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.
I… yeah, what? Disney is what does it? You were cool with Tencent, Sony, Lego, the massive fine for mishandling underage information? Disney. That’s your line.
Alright.
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.
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.
Hah. The framing from normie news is so weird. It’s “bizarrely Disney is investing on Fortnite”, instead of “Disney buys a stake on the people making Unreal, which at this point is like half of their and everybody else’s VFX pipeline”.
I wonder if the gaming news guys will have a better picture or the “Disney Fornite whaaaa?!” angle is what people will take away from this across the board.
I mean… last I remember Fortnite was more than 80% of the revenue of Epic Games… so I feel like saying that Disney investing on Fortnite ain’t that incorrect.
For straight revenue, yeah, that’d be right. Technically everything else is a rounding error. But if Epic was one of those single game unicorns like Riot or Rovio this would not make much sense. The synergies of Unreal with both the movie and theme park buisness for Disney seem like a better fit. I mean, assuming the move makes actual sense, Disney is out there talking about game collaborations and it’s not like it’s the first time they’ve spent money randomly and poorly in the gaming business. I just think the investment would make sense even if Fortnite wasn’t in the mix.
And either way it’s being blown out of proportion by the news because they haven’t even bought the company. 1.5B is what? 10% as much as Tencent owns?
They will probably pull their games from steam next.
They will probably pull their games from steam next.
Oh no.
Anyways…
I wonder what percentage stake that will give them. Tencent owns 40% of Epic.
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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.
