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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans' to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/epicgames@lemmy.zip
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Epic got so much bullshit for - reads annotation - making platform exclusives that were only temporary and helped developers with stable financing with better terms.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Epic halted development of UT4 for Fortnite. They are dead to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Blame market demand. Quake was also halted. UT4 was halted 3 years before Fortnite was out. Fortnite wasn't even supposed to be a battle royale, it just coincided with the popularity of one. The original game mode Save the World that it implemented wouldn't even had had any crossover with the fps multiplayer deathmatch shooter genre. Even games with novel mechanics like Titanfall have struggled and failed to survive in it. I think the generation that never got into Minecraft and think of it as just as a joke kiddie game is still resentful of the types of games it encouraged and continues to do so.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They didn’t even make things exclusive

    There were no clauses saying you couldn’t release on mac/linux/ps/xbox/switch

    They just only carry games for the Windows platform. They did buy EAC and make a Linux version as well as gave all devs the ability to implement crossplay regardless of engine

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Beyond a bit of annoyance about Borderlands 3 being temporarily exclusive, I think the only thing I minded about Epic Games Store was a lack of user reviews, but there's the metacritic embed now so I'm not sure was the issue should be.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Review bombing should be a thing.

    As long as they own the game, coordinated review bombing is good and right.

    Reviews for a Free to Play game are less important. Maybe it makes sense to have a default filter where reviews from anyone who played less than 1 hour don't count towards the main total.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    G*mers are too Stockholmed by Valve's monopoly.

    Introduction the Epic store to gamers was like introducing vegetables to meth addicts

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    GOG gave them an opportunity to stand behind actual principles, they choose gifs presented as trading cards and legalized gambling in the form of the Counter Strike market. The one thing Valve does good is not acting like a complete asshole like most people in the publisher sector (EA, Ubisoft, etc.) but they've certainly spear-led some horrible consumer practices under an effective monopoly. While EGS isn't anything revolutionary and are basically better terms of those horrible consumer practices, they can't even tolerate competition in that regard. The critics can call me out when I can play Half Life 2 and Portal on the Epic Game Store. Valve didn't even consent to having accounts available as inheritance even though at that point anyone who's not a greedy asshole trying to squeeze out as much money as possible as quickly as possible would have realized that that would sell them more games in the long term.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Acting like gamers suddenly care about Linux is a bold strategy. Valve has been going SteamOS when they began considering releasing their own consoles. Wanna compare the statistics of Steam gamers playing on Linux versus other platforms? Incidentally, you basically still have to jailbreak out of their cushy covers to play Linux games outside of their library in their consoles. This is better than what SEGA and Nintendo has done, but it is still tied to a profit incentive.

    Their platform is anything but simple. Anytime I want to play a game, I get bombarded with community features I don't want that attempt to tie a portion of that game's community to their platform. Buying games literally rewards me with bullshit points to try to tie me to their platform's community "features". Valve has plenty of games within its library that has kernel level protection, but yes, they aren't going to be pushing it if they have to rely on Linux for their console OS.

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