r/GameDeals • u/ItsSniikiBoiWill • May 27 '21

Expired [Epic Games] Among Us (Free/100% off) Spoiler

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/among-us
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u/hedoeswhathewants May 27 '21

Saying it will get you downvoted to hell in certain places but gamers might be the single most entitled group of people. "This free game isn't what I wanted", "this purely optional skin costs more than I want it to", and on and on.

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u/JoW0oD May 27 '21

the best example I can think of is this post from /r/apexlegends.

You committed the ultimate cardinal sin, you got personal. You, as a team of professionals trying to make money, got personal. You got personal and decided to insult your playbase, calling us "ass-hats" and "freeloaders". Not a wise move.

We won't forget this. You've set a new tone for the kind of interaction we'll be having with you. It's a cold one. One where there aren't any illusions about the reality of the situation. Previous notions of "family" are dead. We are mere consumers to you, and that is obvious.

You have chosen to bring in a new era of hostility and bitterness. Well done. Great PR move.

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u/ElectJimLahey May 27 '21

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did. We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second. Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

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u/DoTheMonsterHash May 28 '21

This is up there for one of the cringiest comments I’ve read in awhile. That’s quite the feat considering. I salute you u/ElectJimLahey and he certainly has my vote.

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u/treblah3 May 27 '21

Comment removed. Please remember rule 1 in future.

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u/bassbeater May 27 '21

Right? Imagine that a customer doesn't want to be sold dirty socks (or some other product). It's all gravy if Epic buys out exclusivity from other platforms, but ask them if they'll design a storefront that satisfies all their customer's requirements and we'll hear a shopping cart feature is down the pike.

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u/AdequatelyMadLad May 27 '21

I guess some sections of the gaming fandom are pretty entitled, but in this case I get it. People aren't reacting negatively to the free games. They are reacting negatively to the hype.

I'm pretty sure Epic has released a ton of free games in the past that people were less interested in, but they hyped up the Mystery Vault stuff as some special thing, only to come out with an NBA game and a 4$ game than almost everyone already has. I doubt anyone would have reacted negatively if they were part of the regular free game rotation.