Sorry, this post is not really related to dialysis or heart surgery. Since the pandemic lockdown began, Epic, a game company, has been giving away free games on their website. Sure, it’s mainly older titles that probably no one is buying, but it’s still a nice gesture. However, you have to install an application on your PC in order to access their online store and “buy” these free games. Also, Epic sells games from other publishers and some of those were given away too. So far so good.
Well, this week, the free game is Star Wars Battlefront II. It’s published by Electronic Arts but it’s originally from Origins. I think EA purchased Origins awhile ago. The game is okay but it caused a huge controversy about microtransactions when it was published. You can search Reddit to see the threads with official EA comments with record number of downvotes. Anyway, in order to play the game, the game installs an application from Origins that needs an account with Electronic Arts to continue, which also kicks off the Epic application that has a different userid and password. Fine. But sometimes the PC application forgets or wipes out the stored credentials so I have to find the userid/password combo to two accounts. Sometimes I get lazy and use Chrome’s suggested strong password suggestion; there’s no way I can remember that. It’s just a hassle so that game publishers can keep track of their users and create always connected games.
Life with chronic diseases 