Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by jonas21 on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:04PM
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I mean, that's an ordinary business deal. Presumably, the $10m price was chosen because it's at a point where both parties believe they're benefiting from the deal.
The colloquial definition of an "offer you can't refuse" is one that would be a bad deal for you, but that you have to accept anyway because otherwise the counterparty would do something even worse to you.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by judge2020 on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:47PM
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Ya, my bad, haven't seen The Godfather and haven't heard that phrase used much.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by edgyquant on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:03PM
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That isn't the common use of offer you can't refuse
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by damnyou on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:03PM
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That's not what a deal that someone "can't refuse" means -- that's just a deal, a mutually beneficial exchange, one of the foundations of society. "Can't refuse" generally means a threat of out-of-band (e.g. physical) harm if the deal isn't accepted.
The Epic Store is free (as in beer) to create an account on, and there's no hardware lock-in -- Steam, the Epic Store, and other platforms like GOG Galaxy/itch.io/whatever Ubisoft has can all be run on the same computer at the same time. The situation is completely different from Apple's app store.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by edgyquant on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:04PM
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Offer you can't refuse usually means someone has offered you more than you think you're worth so you'd be crazy to refuse it. At least in the US.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by grayfaced on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:00AM
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Apparently it has two meanings. I've only heard it in terms of implying bodily harm, and I'm also in the US. Probably a phrase to be avoided if you don't mean bodily harm because there's a high risk of misinterpretation.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by damnyou on Saturday August 29, 2020 @11:42AM
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Please watch or rewatch The Godfather. It is a very good movie.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
by DaiPlusPlus on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:34PM
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> A little hard to turn down 10 million.
What if the game would have made $20m if it was non-exclusive?
Exclusivity deals mean both parties - or either party - is making a huge risk or there's information-asymmetry involved.
> a recent financial report suggested that Epic paid over $10 million to get Control as an Epic Game Store exclusive on PC, and it's possible the company has done the same to snag some of the more important releases of the year.
A little hard to turn down 10 million.