EAC has been an option in the 7 days launcher of the game for many, many versions now. At least since alpha 16 or so, iirc. AFAIK it's still optional. Just avoid servers that require it, and leave it off. This is just an overreaction. Epic bought EAC about 3 years ago. If you want to avoid Easy Anti Cheat, check their curated list and avoid those games. http://www.easy.ac/en-us/partners/
I wonder if Epic buying up things to force people to their ballpark might be a reason why people are upset. Might have something to do with a trend of them doing that to everything they can grab and holding things people already love hostage.
But I'm sure if you just avoid these things Epic will stop, this will be the message they get clearly.
It absolutely is obnoxious that they're trying to buy their way into ecosystems that exist for all, and make it about themselves. Almost like there's a group of people out there doing that right now to video games. Anyway, Apex Legends uses EAC. They are, afaik, the main competitor to Fortnite. They had no problem using Epic's anti cheat. If you want to stop Epic from buying everything, I'm afraid you can't. You'd have to get a whole lot of kids to stop buying things in the fortnite store and get them to play something else. I've stopped bothering with Epic when they stopped making the game that made the company. The latest Unreal is sitting idle right now and is very likely still untextured. I haven't checked since 2015 when I had to stop caring about it, since it's not going to become anything.
It's been in the game for longer than Epic has owned the anti cheat. If it was an issue, it would have been more than just Epic sucks. I' m not disagreeing that Epic has some terrible ways of going about things. I'm not sure why it's an issue now, since it's been 3 years since they bought it. 4 when october rolls around.
EAC has been an option in the 7 days launcher of the game for many, many versions now. At least since alpha 16 or so, iirc. AFAIK it's still optional. Just avoid servers that require it, and leave it off. This is just an overreaction. Epic bought EAC about 3 years ago. If you want to avoid Easy Anti Cheat, check their curated list and avoid those games. http://www.easy.ac/en-us/partners/
I wonder if Epic buying up things to force people to their ballpark might be a reason why people are upset. Might have something to do with a trend of them doing that to everything they can grab and holding things people already love hostage.
But I'm sure if you just avoid these things Epic will stop, this will be the message they get clearly.
It absolutely is obnoxious that they're trying to buy their way into ecosystems that exist for all, and make it about themselves. Almost like there's a group of people out there doing that right now to video games. Anyway, Apex Legends uses EAC. They are, afaik, the main competitor to Fortnite. They had no problem using Epic's anti cheat. If you want to stop Epic from buying everything, I'm afraid you can't. You'd have to get a whole lot of kids to stop buying things in the fortnite store and get them to play something else. I've stopped bothering with Epic when they stopped making the game that made the company. The latest Unreal is sitting idle right now and is very likely still untextured. I haven't checked since 2015 when I had to stop caring about it, since it's not going to become anything.
So its not overreaction, its completely valid frustration. Glad we got that sorted.
It's been in the game for longer than Epic has owned the anti cheat. If it was an issue, it would have been more than just Epic sucks. I' m not disagreeing that Epic has some terrible ways of going about things. I'm not sure why it's an issue now, since it's been 3 years since they bought it. 4 when october rolls around.
The issue is that they are expanding the use of epic services.
Worse thing is.. i used to run 2 games at once. Last year or two, i cant anymore because both games uses EAC and they dont like it.