Posted 04 October 2019 - 01:01 AM
Honestly, yes. I am. I didn't cancel my ultimate preorder, because I view PGI as an indie developer who isn't just using the big daddy epic bucks to pad Russ's pockets, but rather guarantee the game will be a financial success, keep the lights on and food on the table of the employees. Epic is pretty awful, but I only blame major devs like gearbox who take the deals just to pad their bottom line.
People canceling are just, in my eyes, jumping blindly on the hate bandwagon.
Am I thrilled to be forced to use the epic launcher? No.
But I honestly don't hate PGI like so many of this game's absolutely poisonous fanbase seem to, and I want to support them, I've got nearly 10,000 hours into this game according to steam (shut up I don't have a problem) and I spend money on it because I'm having fun, I don't feel pressured to do so, I skip mech packs I don't want right away but still would be considered a "whale." I dont' love the price the mech packs were, but if that's what they had to charge to keep things afloat, I was willing to suffer it to support the game.
However, I do hope that when the EPIC deal ends and PGI can put MW5 on steam, they offer the same collector edition with all the in-game perks, because I'll happily buy it again just to have it on the better platform.