Re:Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
by klik99 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:22PM
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Yes, this. I was going to reply with the same thing but thought it wasn't worth. There is a lot of hate towards Epic due to EGS, which I get - but Tim has never said anything about losing income due to other stores existing. Sure he's said a lot of bad things about Apple, but never about Valve. He's actually a really good guy, all the hate towards him really irks me - fine, hate the epic game store, I don't personally but I get it, all this world building where he becomes this stupid generic money grubbing CEO is just wrong. It's just reddit echo chamber stuff.
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Re:Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
by MikusR on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:41PM
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When Microsoft announced Windows Store he was one of the biggest fud spreaders about it. And everyone was praising him about it.
Re:Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
by klik99 on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:59PM
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your use of fud indicates that you are old enough to remember 90s microsoft so I'm surprised that you don't feel a huge dollop of skepticism was warranted for the windows store. If you weren't active in the 90s, then I can understand not getting just how anti-competitive MS had a strong history of being - now that we truly have a "new microsoft" these days.
Re:Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
by spywaregorilla on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:30PM
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Same. Bugs me a lot. I dislike the EGS. I dislike Fortnite.
But Epic is one of the most dev-friendly companies in the world. And in my opinion they're constantly pushing in the right direction on things. Maybe not without prompting. But still.
* Online multiplayer must have crossplay
* Anti platform monopolists lawsuits
* Source available engine
* No lootboxes
* Over a hundred million dollars to Ukraine
* $250k to Godot for open source graphics
It's one of the few companies I'm actually rooting for.