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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, people speculated that this was coming.

Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I dunno, company that sells digital content for young people buys company that sells other digital content for young people. I can see the synergy there. Epic Games Store and Bandcamp aren't that far apart.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait.... They sell games? I thought, they'd just gift you some every week!

[–] Fredselfish 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol same my entire Epic library is all the free games I get every Thursday like today.

[–] zecg 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And there's like 300 of them. With Steam, I had to buy my way into a Buridan's donkey position where I don't play anything because I have too much. My man Sweeney made me jaded for free.

[–] Fredselfish 1 points 1 year ago

Think my number at moment high 100's but only way I have been getting games for the last 6 months though.

[–] elscallr 1 points 1 year ago

Wait that's a good point. I hope I get to keep all my free games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A good reason would have been potential "synergies" with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don't recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.

[–] zecg 3 points 1 year ago

Also, why the hell do they own bandcamp, lol.

Because a gaming company with a successful battle royale is like a mule with a spinning wheel or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They wanted to use it to sell music licences for games and media production and the like. But it never really worked out, so they've sold it to a company that already actually knows how to do that.