I just save my money and play something else or buy something else. There's more games than can be played that I've never felt like I was losing out by not buying a game from epic.
Wouldn't be me. I don't like streams. When I've had twitch drops i wanted to claim I'd just mute the tab in the background to get the time limit needed.
I don't have the attention span for streamers. It's like golf. Might be fun to play but watching is another matter.
Price tier strategy. Get impatient people to pay $70 because they need to play ASAP. And then sales to get people who won't pay $70. Pricing low permanently misses out on getting as much money from people who are willing to pay more throughout the year.
$70 price is for people who are really impatient and then sales are to capture price sensitive people over time. Not unusual. It's why I wasn't bothered by the $70 retail price, since I knew I'd never have to pay it. It's just a tax on the impatient.
PC is an open platform though that allows for much better longevity when it comes to games scaling with future hardware without needing the approval of publishers pushing an update.
Console games are at the mercy of whether future consoles will have backwards compatibility and then new settings to meet expectations of future hardware. So physical is something I still prefer for console because I view console games more stuck in time due to so much being dependent on what is allowed. Don't really have a long term view of consoles. More of a nice to have an option to sell.
Games used stuff like cd keys and even pieces of paper that deciphered codes as DRM. DRM was always something sought after by companies. Just take a look at Sony rootkit scandal for music CDs.
Isn't it more in the real world people don't interact with close to the number of people they do on the internet, and they never encounter or avoid a lot of people which acts like a real world filter or blocklist?
Internet is like walking in a store and then being flooded with hearing the thoughts of everyone in the store like you're experiencing a telepathic attack.
I want Deckard already. Been waiting on that since I don't want to get Facebook VR, and hoping by the time Deckard comes out there will be more VR titles releasing from Valve since other than Alyx and Best Saber not much interests me.
Winning move from Epic. Showing what should be done for abandoned games. Give it back to the people so it can continued to be enjoyed by the community that will continue to care for it.
Bethesda did that after shutting down their launcher.