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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Hot Wheels Unleashed
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

FYI from https://status.epicgames.com -- "Purchase issues in Epic Games 
Store Investigating - We are investigating an issue where players are 
unable to complete a purchase in the Epic Games Store. Dec 27, 2024 - 
16:59 UTC" from 
https://www.reddit.com/r/AppHookup/comments/1hnhyut/windows_hot_wheels_unleashed_5999_free_toy_cars/m42ebew/.  
We'll just have to wait. If they can't fix it by 8 AM PST tomorrow, then 
they owe us an extension to get this free game or else... ;)
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