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Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by chc on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:03PM (#20444018)
> Given that Tim wants to force everyone to use his crappy launcher

This is a pretty wild accusation to make with no lead-up or follow-through.

Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by mrguyorama on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:21PM (#20444198)
The store does not have a shopping cart feature, and started flagging people for fraud for buying multiple games in a row during a huge sale
Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by ThatPlayer on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:31PM (#20445482)
That's a problem with their anti-fraud not a problem with missing a shopping cart. And that's probably been fixed.

iTunes, Apple App Store, Google Play Store, even Amazon Kindle book store, all are missing carts. Because a one-click buy is way easier to navigate than adding to cart, going to cart, and then finally checking out.

Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by mrguyorama on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:47AM (#20451154)
Does epic have one click buy? I also don't agree that one click buy is better for the consumer, as I like to see all the money I'm spending when buying multiple games, but that's opinion of course.
Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by chc on Monday July 15, 2019 @05:52PM (#20445635)
Even if everything you're saying here is 100% true, I don't see how it would support the accusation that Tim wants to force everyone to use his launcher, which is what I quoted and took issue with. Can you explain how the lack of a shopping cart and some mistaken bans are meant to prove the accusation true?
Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by mrguyorama on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:50AM (#20451185)
What I said does not support the that accusation. Are you saying a business does not want to own 100% of the market? Are you disagreeing with the "force" verbiage?
Re:Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M by chc on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @11:59AM (#20451276)
Yes, I was disagreeing with the thing I quoted. Given that saltminer was contrasting Tim's desire to "force everyone" to use his launcher with Valve's wishes for the world, I don't think it was uncharitable to read it as an accusation of something more nefarious than run-of-the-mill capitalism.