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I’m so happy this other large company which wants to embed itself as a storefront and soak up fees won against the other large company which was already doing it.
Like, genuinely I am, but Epic isn’t doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. Epic/Sweeney is mostly sad they didn’t have the monopoly first.
Who cares? It's a win for everyone.
Biggest disappointment is that it took a rich twat to twist the government's arm and do what should've done 10 years ago.
Give Tim Sweeney lots of money? Why would the government do that?
...why would anyone do that?
I mean, it's what you're celebrating.
You can make some vague claims that it's going to be good for small businesses and independent developers... but realistically it's only going to pad the pockets of the already rich. Any benefit to anyone else is going to be negligible.
I mean, it's what you're celebrating.
I don't even know what money you're talking about. Hard to celebrate that.
realistically it's only going to pad the pockets of the already rich
...you mean Apple? No. It will benefit literally everyone else.
ask any game dev if they're happy Epic won this battle? If they say no then they've never tried to release a game on a marketplace. This is a huge win for developers.
I am a dev. I said I’m glad they won. Epic still sucks, though.
so am i. And I'll agree epic sucks in some ways, sweeney in more, but they also provide a relatively awesome toolset. i think epic has gotten a lot of undue hate just for having a marketplace seperate from steam - but steam has been exploiting devs for a long ass time too.
It’d be easier to side with Epic if they put really any effort at all into the Epic Games Store. I know there’s a lot of features to catch up on to be competitive to Steam, but considering they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on exclusivity, you’d think they would spend more on improving EGS.
To some extent, people will hate EGS anyway, but if they just quietly trucked along adding feature after feature, those that use it would spread the word. Instead, it largely stagnated and people kept reporting to others that it generally still sucks.
Playing catch-up takes time but at least the company that does already has an enumerated list of features to implement and can glean ideas about how to do so.
Now Epic can finally install their own payment system, bypassing Apple’s parental controls, and little Timmy can just enter the details from mommy’s credit card when Epic gets him addicted to ~~gambling~~ loot boxes.
Such a win for consumers.
We have laws to protect children, no other companies: we need laws that hit hard companies that don't respect people (and other companies)'s rights.
We have laws to protect children
Hahaha, good one.
we need laws that hit hard companies that don't respect people (and other companies)'s rights.
In the US? That’s not going to happen. The US is run by corporations.
What a dumb bar to judge them by. Not a single entity with an interest in fighting this fight would be doing it out of the goodness of their hearts
They did a good thing but I still get to judge them for ultimately being greedy.
"... Long national nightmare...". I think this guy likes his hyperbole. Trump, DOGE, and the rest of the current government? National nightmare. Russia attempting to invade Ukraine? National nightmare. Israel killing thousands of children in a bid to wipe out an entire populace? NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. This guy needs to visit reality more often.
The rich don't live in reality
Tim Weenie can go kick rocks, barefoot.
Thought Epic isn't entirely the good guy, this is great news for them and everyone else who's been under Apples oppressive rules
Apple v Epic is like the Trump-Elon fight. Apple, like Trump, does more and lasting damage. Sweeny, like Elon, is somehow even more hate-able.
I don’t want either side to win, I want both sides to lose.
When the girls are fighting, I'm on team popcorn.
Nah. The girls are good. THE GROWN BILLIONAIRE MEN are fighting. Don't rope women in to this.
Billionaires are fucking weird.
That was a reference to AOC making fun of Trump and Elon
I know. AOC should know better.
Okay now he should be able to afford developers to make all their games on Epic SteamDeck-compatible, right?
Epic literally cannot even bother, they handed Linux to valve on a golden platter
Too bad (for him) Epic is still trash.
why is epic trash? I mean yes, sweeney sucks balls, but why EPIC trash?
It's lacking s bunch of basic functionality that, for example, stream has. Even Epic itself admitted that it's not great.
https://wccftech.com/epic-games-launcher-is-indeed-clunky-admits-epics-tim-sweeney/