Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by rbtprograms on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:44AM
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I highly doubt that devs are the ones who make the decision to put everything behind the walled garden of an entirely separate app store. Although I would agree that devs do shoulder some of the blame for relying on electron and other such technologies for building these things.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by ekianjo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:50AM
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> who make the decision to put everything behind the walled garden of an entirely separate app store
Devs or Publishers, but devs can also self-publish when they are indies anyway. Epic Store is famously buying timed exclusives - we have seen ShenMue 3 for example exclusive for one year on EGS depiste a kickstarter campaign where they promised a release on Steam on Day 1. Devs/Publishers were clearly to blame there: they decided to ignore their supporters and go for the big bag of Epic money instead.