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I'm against epic. Fuck them, hope they lose the lawsuit.
You know a company sucks when the public decides to side with fucking Google instead of them.
Actually Google wasn't that bad in the past. They did a lot of good, open sourced a lot of projects, made a lot of Linux contributions, gave us AOSP, Kubernetes, Golang, Tensor Flow, etc.
They even had a moonshot program, working on a lot of emerging technologies, and were in general pretty cool. I think things started to go downhill when they announced Alphabet, back then they started to optimize their operations by minimising the costs and maximizing their profits. In general this made their shareholders pretty happy and the rest pretty sour.
So... When the name Google started only referring to the actual web services instead of everything the parent company was doing. Those types of things are still there, they're just part of Alphabet (literally the old Google), which the media doesn't really talk about anymore because the average person has no idea what that means, but they know Google.
Why? What did they do?
don't forget, devs from the rocket league also got laid off a few weeks ago
they bought a brazilian game company that made a very fun game and now they only do fortnite skins, they can just explode and the world could be a better place
edit:horizon chase turbo is the game, piracy it and play, it's really fun, just don't give them more money
Fucking hell, I had no idea and I love this game. This is where I draw the line, I'm joining the Epic hate train now.
+1 for such an extensive, well-founded rant
It ain't dead yet, but it's not looking good. I second this sentiment, however. I love Bandcamp and was so pissed when they bought it, only to be more pissed when they basically threw it away like a used napkin. Fuck Timmy Tencent.
So... #verizonmath means I have to ask: Is this supposed to be 3/1000ths of a penny per stream? Or 3/10ths of a penny per stream? You labeled the amount with both dollars and cents :(
Honest question, why is this bad? I don't understand.
I think you misunderstand. They didn't bring games that were exclusive to consoles, to PC. They took the idea of exclusives to PC app markets. I.E. paying game studios for exclusive rights to distribute on PC. It's anti competitive and a completely artificial limitation, since obviously, for PC games, the hardware is the same regardless of Steam or Epic app stores. And that violates a long standing core value for many PC gamers as an entirely open market.
Yes that was exactly what I was thinking. Thanks for clearing that up.
Jeez that is terrible. I did NOT expect to resonate with your pain as much as I did. Yikes.
Fkn amazing username.
As if valve and gog don't exist.
No, I think they care about customers enough for us to not be troubled about their "ulterior" intentions.
Still nothing compared to what valve did. People here are either young or naive.
Yeah, I'm confused about the price gouging too. Not sure what they did exactly. I remember fondly that Apple had an issue with then and how they advertised app purchases, but not with Google Play Store.
Based on some other responses, I doubt it's as simple as you put it.
I mean, I agree with your point as well... Change isn't appreciated.
But at the same time, the Rocket League and Bandcamp stories kind of rubbed me the wrong way.
Worth noting that harvesting organs from non-consenting people would also be logical from a business perspective, provided it were legal. Free high value produce!
Not to put words in the mouth of the previous commenter, but logic is an extremely different argument compared to their argument of ethics- I don't think they were confused about why it happened but rather concerned that it happened despite the ethical issues around (potentially, Im not familiar with the Rocket League situation) removing a game from a platform that many people bought it solely for :)
Regardless, I think it makes sense for people to be upset as, to your point, the most logical business decisions often run counter to the ethical or emotional considerations of the customers.