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A reminder to manage your startup apps (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/memes

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[–] pivot_root 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Epic pays for the freebies on the expectation that X copies will be redeemed. If more people redeem the game than that, they don't pay any extra. If less people redeem the game than they paid for, they overpaid (to the benefit of the developer).

I never got the avoid on principle argument

A bullet point summary of why people dislike Epic:

Epic Games' CEO, Tim Sweeny, is an absolute knob.
He acts out the role of the messiah coming to save PC gamers from the Steam "monopoly"
Epic's actions demonstrate that he wants to monopolise PC gaming
Epic has a slide deck (released as part of their Apple lawsuit) that outlines their strategy involving paying influencers to "disrupt organic engagement" in their competitors (specifically, Steam).
Epic purchased, gutted, and resold Bandcamp.
Epic, as a company, unethically monitises Fortnite by using dark patterns to trick kids into paying for skins.
Epic has a tendency to pay for timed exclusivity rights of crowdfunded games as a way to force people onto their platform.
Epic support is known to often permanently lock your account when compromised, rather than help get it back.
Tencent is a significant shareholder of Epic. (For those that care)

The "avoiding them out of principle" argument comes from people refusing to be a statistic that benefits the company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is not important to many people, but "actively hostile to Linux users". Like, vocally nasty about it. They're not only publicly dicks about it, their launcher software self-immolates regularly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

this is my only real annoyance with the out of the entire list that was posted, I dislike that they have zero Linux support at all and go out of their way to disable any type of compatibility layers, the rest while I agree are bad, I don't see them bad enough to shoot myself in the foot and not grab freebies. I won't spend money on the platform cause steam is 10000% superior in every area but, free is free

[–] rambaroo -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The irony of criticizing epic for wanting to monopolize PC gaming when steam already did that, and did it intentionally from the very beginning as well

[–] pivot_root 2 points 10 months ago

I can't speak for others, but my problem with them isn't that they want to monopolise PC gaming. It's the blatant hypocrisy of trying to paint itself as being good for PC gaming while doing so.