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[–] Spudwart 58 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Twitter Reddit Unity Blizzard Microsoft Epic Google All of the Movie industry. All of the animation industry. All of the Gaming publishers.

Basically, everything, everywhere.

[–] Ottomateeverything 54 points 1 year ago

You forgot car companies asking for subscriptions to use your heated seats.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 16 points 1 year ago

Charge more, pay and offer less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Epic is trying to make every game exclusive so they don't have to compete on the market, instead of providing a service that is actually competitive.

https://medium.com/@unfoldgames/why-i-turned-down-exclusivity-deal-from-the-epic-store-developer-of-darq-7ee834ed0ac7

Tldr: Epic waits until a game with hype annouces a launch date on Steam, then contacts the developer saying "We would love to have you on our platform" and offers an exclusivity deal.
Dev turns down exclusivity deal because backers were promised a Steam release.
Sudddenly Epic has no interest in making the game available on their store if they have to actually compete with another store. Despite saying previously they would "love to have it".

Having it on their store as well would provide a better service for their users but that's not what Epic is interested in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I see, they have been doing that for years though. I thought maybe they did something new to spice it up this year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup. It was bullshit years ago when they started doing it, and it's still bullshit today.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exist

Also Fortnite and Epic Games Store

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is silly. Epic Megagames out out some ridiculously great products. Jazz jackrabbit, omf, zzt, freaking UNREAL and unreal tournament. If y'all wanna hate on their recent decisions that's fine not everyone stays good, but to say that simply existing is a reason to hate on them is redacted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Big abusive company: exists

Me: Image

[–] CosmicCleric 1 points 1 year ago

All of the animation industry.

Corporate enshitification and the Woke/anti-Woke debate are two very different things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Casino industry. I.e. mgm, penn, Caesars, station casinos, etc.