Friday, February 8, 2019

Axiom Verge crashed on Epic Store due to missing "steam" file

It's no secret there's been some antagonism between Steam and Epic as the latter seeks to establish its own digital storefront. Only earlier this week Valve called Epic's decision to snap up Metro Exodus "unfair to Steam customers", prompting fans to display their annoyance by review-bombing past Metro titles on Steam.

In light of all this, what could be funnier than a file called "steam" breaking a game on the Epic Games Store?

Axiom Verge, a Metroid-esque indie originally released in 2015, yesterday made its debut on the Epic Games Store as a free-to-play title. Players soon found, however, that entering one area resulted in a 100 per cent crash rate. After poking through the game files, one observant player found the reason behind this: the game was mysteriously missing a file called "steam".

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from Eurogamer.net
by February 08, 2019 at 02:17AM

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