Djaron: 1) pointless reviews bombing that gives no useful or relevant information to potential customers (...)
You're right about useless reviews, but consider this:
Reviews are the
only way to show customer dissatisfaction. Keep in mind that negative critique is often censored if you use an official forum (-> Blizzard banned discussions about Hong Kong for example). So, what do you do as a customer? Well, you can go to reddit and shout into the void, so developer can do whatever they want without beeing affected.
CarbonSeed: (...)ones who probably when another game is launched on Steam or GoG after being on Epic for a period of time, request a discount "because the game is not new anymore", and it's exactly what they have done here, which has harm us, backers, of course, agree with that, I only think that people has to be consistent with what they asks for, and not "in this way with this game, but with this one do it this other way because it doesn't suit me".
You're totally right and that's my point: Happy customer will support your game and backers paid a higher price on purpose. They did it voluntary and this should be honored.
Many people don't want to use Epic and the reasons were discussed before. You can think "their reasons are stupid", but people are allowed to have stupid opinions :)
Game launcher are online shops and it's your decission where you purchase a product. For example, you shouldn't be forced to buy at Walmart if you dislike the company. Yes, people didn't have to wait 1 year, but they were forced to use Epic and a lot of people don't want to do that.
P.S.: I used the terminology "feeding the developers family", because FallenHeroX1 wrote that Epic was paying the employees (ignoring how the backers paid their salary before). I've seen this emotionally argument multiple times and it tries to distract from the real issue.
To be honest, my only issue is how the lied to their backers. They praised Epic and acted like they made this decission for their customers.