{"id":610,"date":"2020-10-17T09:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T09:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/?p=610"},"modified":"2020-10-17T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T09:28:03","slug":"epic-games-launcher-frustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2020\/10\/17\/epic-games-launcher-frustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Launcher frustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have never spent any money in the epic games store, but I have picked up a couple of things for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the freebies was Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which I finally got around to wanting to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On logging in to the Epic Games client I am greeted with a catchpa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"875\" height=\"786\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-17_10-24-39.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-17_10-24-39.png 875w, https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-17_10-24-39-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-17_10-24-39-768x690.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-17_10-24-39-167x150.png 167w, https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screenshot_2020-10-17_10-24-39-150x135.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><figcaption>1 of 3 mazes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is frustrating enough that I didn&#8217;t bother to actually finish logging in. So I guess I won&#8217;t play my free game, I&#8217;ll write a rant on my blog instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then I&#8217;ll probably never spend money on the Epic Games Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s like they don&#8217;t want me to spend money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never spent any money in the epic games store, but I have picked up a couple of things for free. One of the freebies was Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which I finally got around to wanting to play. On logging in to the Epic Games client I am greeted&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2020\/10\/17\/epic-games-launcher-frustrations\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}