It’s so arbitrary. Epic games is a capitalist institution and therefore it’s not doing anything out of the goodness of its heart but it gives shit away like candy. It gives really good triple a games away every month and on the game dev side they’re constantly releasing free assets and buying tools and making them available for unreal engine. The new character creator they just released is pretty remarkable and not too long ago they made a partnership that lets you use tons of photogrammetry assets for free.

The only thing they do that sucks for gamers is buy exclusives but that’s your capitalism at work baby. All consoles have been doing that for ages.

I will never understand why redditors are so eager to gobble down whatever pathetic opinion has obviously been manufactured for them, and then act like it’s the most important shit on earth.

Because it's real to them. Like, downloading an application that doesn't work to play a game that doesn't work during the spare time you don't really have with money you probably can't afford to spend. And then being pissed because you're the latest person to be duped by the Release Me From This Corporeal Hellscape industry into thinking this will give you some form of psychological relief from the psychological strains of modern society.

Epic sucks. Their games are overpriced and bad. Their marketplace app is bad. And anyone who got suckered in by the slick advertising only to be thrown into the pit of garbage products feels real distress and experiences sympathy when they read about other people having distress - even performatively - online.

it came from other trustworthy users, and couldn’t possibly have been part of a campaign to give them an intensely negative opinion about something as pointless as the epic games store.

I'm confident it's not the first time "Why does this crap product suck so hard when the machine that took my money worked flawlessly?" has crossed someone's mind.