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Two of the reasons I'd never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

The first free game is Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee.

Epic does allow NFTs but the store page isn't marked that way, so I'm not sure if the game has them.

User reviews are almost impossible to get right. On Steam and GOG, they are easily and routinely abused. Steam took some steps to tackle review bombing, but even when it detects it, there's no protection against marking reviews as helpful or unhelpful, which is sometimes used to the same end as review bombing for reasons that have nothing to do with the game content or technical aspects. There is also no active screening for hate speech and things of that nature, with the word filter often bypassed.

Epic supports user ratings and offers the players to rate games at random as to prevent abuse.

Tencent owns 35%.

Have you played it recently? It's not a single game anymore but basically a launcher containing many games of all kinds - quite a few of them from Epic. You may absolutely hate battle royale but find Rocket Racing or Lego Fortnite very enjoyable and different from Fortnite Battle Royale.

I'll always remember her accurate Trump impersonation.

One of the big platforms I managed had the issue of the founder not making a clear distinction between its moderators and administrators, which is one of the reasons I left it.

One is a public-facing role for people who are great at conflict resolution, while the other is for people who can program or manage behind the scenes. One individual exceeding at both skills is not common. More importantly, relying on someone for their admin skills means you'll probably fear pushing them away even if they do a poor job as a moderator. This is what we saw with Rooki of Lemmy.world: despite the clear power abuse and the community recognizing that, it felt the other admins had no chance but to keep him because of his help with the platform development, so they even went as far as changing the rules.

Perhaps the issue is not as obvious now, but once the admin has been around and substantially helped you for a while, with a lot resting on their shoulders, it will be impossible for you to not think of that when deciding whether they are doing good as a moderator or if they should be let go.

Short of the introductory scenes that teach you to avoid using the special abilities, I can't think of a case of the protagonist being manipulative in a negative way. It's worth noting that she can be as bad as the player though, if they decide to interrupt people and use her powers to the same end.

To your second point, there are enough examples of Justice being bad, like their officers talking about arresting people purely out of being annoyed, being kinda racist (e.g. saying that two Black individuals must be siblings, then to themselves wondering if that's racist), going after a little girl for having special powers, experimenting on people, persecuting all people with special powers and regularly calling them deviants (all while claiming to promote diversity), trying to arrest peaceful protesters, and so on.

I wouldn't agree with the assessment of the main characters being a-holes. Maybe in the carefully cut clips devoid of the full context.

In the first scenes, the protagonist is indeed somewhat mean to her crew, but the game immediately tells you as much, to show you that abusing the special abilities, Vox, is not a good idea. From there, it's up to the player whether to listen to every dialogue to the end or to interrupt, whether to avoid using the charged Vocals or to use them frequently. Going by the post-chapter stats at the end of one particular chapter, most players choose to avoid them at least in that instance.

It's a lot more nuanced than ever presented in the hate videos or reviews. Like the protagonists being deliberately flawed, the villains (or the people presented in those reviews as villains) are also portrayed as human: misinformed but not inherently evil; capable of empathy and questioning their beliefs; seemingly caricature at first, but then showing a different side.

Finally the kind of game I would have on my wishlist!