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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Hot Wheels Unleashed
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:35:02 -0800
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On 12/27/2024 9:03 AM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 12/27/2024 8:57 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:40:29 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
>> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Wait, are we still doing this? Isn't Christmas come and gone? What's
>>> with all these games? Well, I guess we'll just have to endure the
>>> rigorous ordeal of adding even more games into our library. What a
>>> hard life we live!
>>>
>>>
>>> * Hot Wheels Unleashed
>>
>> Side note:
>>
>> Six years in, and Epic still can't figure out how to run a digital
>> store-front. Now, I get that these freebies are putting added load
>> onto their servers; even Steam sometimes stumbles there. But at least
>> when Steam can't handle the load, it doesn't present a default
>> cloudflare 404 screen, block my IP, and lock up the client forcing me
>> to kill the process in task manager. Epic Game Store does that. And
>> this isn't even the first time this has happened.
>>
>> I'm sure eventually the problem will resolve itself (and if not, I
>> mean, who cares. It's not that this is a game I really want. I just
>> like seeing The Number go up ;-). But Epic: you wanna know why you
>> aren't making headway in your 'war' against Valve? This is why. Fix
>> your damn client, you clowns. People have been telling you that for
>> over half a decade, and yet even after all that time and press, it's
>> still shit.
>>
>> (side note to the side note: the problem also occurs through the
>> browser, albeit more subtly and at least the browser doesn't lock up.
>> I'm more forgiving there, since it's obviously just an overloaded
>> server).
>>
>> On the other hand, Epic's continued incompetence made me smile. So I
>> guess that's good?
>>
>>
>> TL;DR: if you want the game, maybe wait for the servers to be less
>> over-loaded, and don't use their shitty client.
>>
>>
> They did me one worse:
> 
> "
> Sorry, you have been blocked
> You are unable to access store.epicgames.com
> Why have I been blocked?
> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online 
> attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. 
> There are several actions that could trigger this block including 
> submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
> 
> What can I do to resolve this?
> You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please 
> include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare 
> Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.
> "
> 

That was from the client.

I tried again from the website, which just gave me

"An error occurred during checkout"

I don't know why I'm bothering either.  I played it briefly on Luna I 
think, and it didn't grab me.  That might be because Luna isn't good for 
games where you need good input time, which is pretty much everything 
but puzzle and turn based.

FOR THE NUMBER!

I too was more a matchbox kid.

-- 
-Justisaur

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