Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store

Re:Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store by MattRix on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:39PM (#35205194)

Tim Sweeney has been a big proponent of open platforms for over a decade. See also: the whole Apple vs Epic thing which was definitely not a good business decision at all. I think it’s possible this isn’t really about “incentives” and is just about sticking to certain principles.

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Re:Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store by jacklbk on Saturday March 18, 2023 @12:32AM (#35206104)

> open platforms

> introduce 3rd party exclusivity on PC

I don't think that's him sticking to a "certain principles", he's just doing whatever it takes to make people think Epic is the "good guy", as long as he's doing the opposite of the competitors.

For example, take a look into his take about blockchain games. At first he was against NFT games [1], then after Valve banned NFT games, Gabe Newell talked about it [2], Tim suddenly was OK with it [3]?

He fought with Apple because he thought he could win it, so his Fortnite could avoid 30% transaction fee. They clearly had a lot of discussion, strategies before suing Apple and thought it was a good idea, they could have won big. It's not a bad business decision if he can win, but they didn't so it looked bad.

[1]: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/144251952287594906...

[2]: https://www.ign.com/articles/gabe-newell-nft-steam

[3]: https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/144914631712989593...

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Re:Godot Arrives in the Epic Games Store by MattRix on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:22AM (#35216006)

I could be wrong but it seems likely his first tweet was about Epic integrating NFTs into their own games, and the second was about allowing them on the EGS?

I don’t really see the NFT stuff as relating to open platforms anyway. Certain kinds of software (the most obvious being viruses and scams) need to be banned from platforms anyway.

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