Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by 0x5f3759df-i on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:31PM (#21985128)

>The vast amounts of cash Fortnite made for Epic is being poured back into buying up indie games and supplying a better store for game sales and creating a better game engine that anyone can pick up and use for 5% of sales.

For the sole reason of trying to replace Steam as the dominant store platform on PC. Epic isn't just doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. This will not continue once Epic achieves their goal of buying their way into being the middleman between developers and gamers.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by friendlybus on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:21PM (#21985742)

They don't need to replace Steam, they have 80 million active users from Fortnite alone. Steam has 90 million active users.

Were they to compete with Steam properly they would crush Steam's store feature set. The Epic store is still under-developed compared to Steam by a lot. Regardless of their perceived intent the entire point is that the little guy is being rewarded and the system works even if it appears 'evil'.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by Apocryphon on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @05:52PM (#21986071)

So this is an argument for trickle-down economics within an industry, except used to rationalize fighting unionization, instead of increased taxation.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by friendlybus on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:12PM (#21986279)

This is an argument that workers are supported. I make no grand economic philosophy claim.

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