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.
People have hated EAC for a long time, and its owned by someone who is less trustable with that power and even more hated. Its compounding two issues together.
Its probably an issue now because this specific game just made people aware of it. Either they were never told prior, or weren't paying attention. But that doesn't absolve the problem going forward.
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.
People have hated EAC for a long time, and its owned by someone who is less trustable with that power and even more hated. Its compounding two issues together.
Its probably an issue now because this specific game just made people aware of it. Either they were never told prior, or weren't paying attention. But that doesn't absolve the problem going forward.