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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Tim Weenie can go kick rocks, barefoot.

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"... 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.

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 70 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am a dev. I said I’m glad they won. Epic still sucks, though.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Give Tim Sweeney lots of money? Why would the government do that?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...why would anyone do that?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 0 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 8 points 1 day ago

They did a good thing but I still get to judge them for ultimately being greedy.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago

Thought Epic isn't entirely the good guy, this is great news for them and everyone else who's been under Apples oppressive rules

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When the girls are fighting, I'm on team popcorn.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Nah. The girls are good. THE GROWN BILLIONAIRE MEN are fighting. Don't rope women in to this.

Billionaires are fucking weird.

[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too bad (for him) Epic is still trash.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

why is epic trash? I mean yes, sweeney sucks balls, but why EPIC trash?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 13 hours ago

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/