Jesus christ. Fuck off Google. Fuck off Tencent. Neither company needs the other to ruin even more shit.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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With googles history of killing stuff , I don't want my free games library to die π
That's the beauty of allowing gaming companies to deliver everything digitally over the internet! All of our digitally purchased goods are one bad quarter of earnings or new CEO desparate to impress an executive board away from having an arbitrary expiration date put upon them. And we will have no recourse other than a class-action lawsuit where each person recoups pennies for each good purchased or mandatory arbitration where we get nothing!
They'll likely charge a small amount for a subscription to access your free games.
That is a lot of companies I don't like
Looks like a Madlibs entry
NESTLE and THE CCP are teaming up to buy SPAMCALLERS
Lmao we are so far beyond βdo no evilβ that I donβt think weβre even in the same time zone any more.
As much as I dislike Epic...nah, I wouldn't wish them that fate (to be bought out and then discarded in the Google graveyard)
I don't care about the epic games store but i do care about the unreal engine. So this is bad.
Eh, as long as Godot exists and stays independent, in happy. Yeah, Unreal Engine is a lot more advanced, but Godot is also quite good and could probably catch up pretty quickly with enough funding.
I'm very new to game dev and it's pretty hard to make a VR game in unreal. Do you know if godot is good for VR? I heard most people making VR games where using unity because it was the easiest.
I haven't done any VR, so sorry. I know it's capable, but I have no experience with how well it works.
That would mean a really long dark age of gaming as Unity is struggling and everyone moving to Unreal. But they'd 100% destroy this good engine with monetization crap and then we're left with nothing, or at least only one relatively new engine, which is yet to prove itself.
Everything's comin' up Lumberyard!
The day that happens, will be the day I delete my account.
No amount of free games can justify the amount of spy-ware Google/Tencent will bring to the table.
not like Tencent already owns 40%
Oh my, did not know that, but now I'm srsly tempted to already delete my account D:
Eh, I haven't spent a dime on EGS, so it's whatever. Steam gets my money because they improve my gaming experience on my chosen platform (Linux), and no amount of free games will replace that.
If EGS officially supported Linux and invested in the platform, I'd care more. The only thing I'd legitimately be worried about is Unreal Engine, I'm worried Google would screw it up trying to make it mobile first or something.
I wonder how that would affect Bandcamp?
Just like every other google product, poof!
Google also considered locking down all Android devices like Apple does.
Which would at least simplify the insufferable horseshit arguments where people can't defend Apple dictating what software your always-connected pocket supercomputer runs, so they tell you to 'buy something else.' Like problems aren't real unless there's a gun to your head.
I haven't played any of their games since the original Unreal Tournament, but to everyone else, I hope you're looking forward to that Google account migration.
You have likely played several games using their engine though
There's only one way to settle this... 1v1 CTF match.
Exact quote:
"join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic (and then of course we do a lot of deep commercial things with Epic)."