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Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable (kotaku.com)

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[–] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For those of you that don't play rocket league, it is a prime example of just how badly epic is willing to fuck up a game for a dollar. Literally Mr. Crabs.

This December 5th, they are removing player to player trading from RL. Why would they alienate such a core faction of their player base?

Fortnite.

Apparently, that game is getting a racing mode and they want you to be able to drive your rocket league car in Fortnite. Apparently, the only possible way to make this happen is to eliminate player trading.

Now, every single high value item like alpha boost ($5-7k) or a white hate ($???k) is worthless. Now, if there is a particular item you really want, you can wait for rng to drop it, or nrg for it to show up in the shop where you can expect to pay a minimum of x10 credit it would have cost you on the trading market.

I expect a class action lawsuit. They locked player to player trading behind a purchase of credits. They made hundreds of thousands of players pay for a feature and are now removing that feature in a blindly idiotic money grab.

FUCK EPIC GAMES.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I play RL daily but had no idea about any of this (don't trade nor particularly care about items).