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Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store
This is why I hate everyone.
Look at this comment section.
About none of them are related to the title. About all of them are people trying to justify why they support abuse when they like it. And comfort others into supporting it too.
They've been supporting Valve knowing full well that Valve was Apple-deep into anti-concurrency BS. They've been shitstorming the concurrency literally for not being Valve. And they've built their identity on that.
So now, you're not allowed to say that "taking 30% of cut on every game for an installer service, down to 24% if you're rich enough so you can make more money for your CEO bonuses, and forcing devs into signing that they are not allowed to offer the game at an other price on other stores, then mocking the concurrency for not making it" is a bad thing. Saying that makes you a undesirable person.
(for my sanity, this ranting limits itself to the first page of comments)
Proton-GE has fixes in it to apply to EGS. EGS is only usable on linux because of Valve (and Mr Eggroll, but either way, not Epic themselves).
Yes, it is interesting to also note that Heroic game launcher was made by an independent team of developers thanks to Valve who did not interact with them.
30% might be a bit much for a store. But it isn't necessarily too much for a store + community platform combo.
Ah, community monetization, I always love it.
They wound up on steam because even with a 30% cut taken out, it was still worth it for the increase in sales.
As a rule of thumb, monopolies are better than the concurrency, you should never go for the concurrency
I'd still go with Steam, because they have my trust.
(OK, this one is honest about himself, I'm not mad at you)
Tim Sweeney is (or has long since become) a bitch [...]. Plus I hate Fortnite and the like too.
... and this is why all developers should pay 30% for a download link and DRM. Case and point.
And don't forget all of the hardware R&D and production, which is also funded by that cut.
And the 0.01% in eco-participation.
The "you mad bro" is not entirely unjustified if you think about Epic trying to set up a competing store to Steam after almost 15 years of growth with only Fortnite as a basis.
Yes, breaking a monopoly is hard, and people who try should rightfully be bullied.
Every one of these fights is because he doesn't want to share a cut of Fortnite's income despite using all of these platforms built by other people to advertise and sell Fortnite.
I agree, Tim Sweeney has an interest in devs being paid correctly because he's a dev, that kind of conflict of interest is worthy of twitter shitstorms.
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