The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    321·
    2 days ago

    They’re still scum of the earth for fortnite but I can appreciate this action.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        201·
        2 days ago

        It abused dark ux patterns to an extreme as well as engaging in a lot of psychological abuse to extort money from users.

            • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
              31·
              1 day ago

              TF2 hats, CS:GO and the scammy gambling sites it enabled, DOTA2.

              None of this is really better than what Fortnite does, and there’s probably no big players in the gaming market with clean hands when it comes to this kind of thing. The successes take all the attention, and Fortnite wasn’t even that big until they dropped the Battle Royale formula into it after the sudden popularity of PUBG.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            62·
            1 day ago

            I can’t disagree with you

            But the degree to which they fuck(ed) with people’s minds is wildly different.