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Valve Is "Irresponsible" To Force AI Disclosures on Steam, Epic CEO Says, While Unreal Engine 6 Doubles Down on AI

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney blasts Valve’s Steam AI disclosure rules, calling the mandatory tags irresponsible for devs.
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"It's unfortunate that so many developers now are put into this position. If you want to launch a game, and get it as widely publicized as possible, you've got to put it on Steam so people can wish list it, and if you want to play it on Steam, then you have to get this Scarlet Letter of AI attached to your product, and now there is a hater community trying to kill the game," Sweeney said to PC Gamer in a new interview.

"I think it's really irresponsible of Valve. They shouldn't do it, because it makes it much, much, much harder for a game developer to have a chance of success. You have to choose from either not using tools that can make you way more productive, and probably failing due to competition that does."
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Copons said:
That's a pretty good idea!

A banner that makes me say "wait, this game was made by nazi dipshits? well, off the wishlist it goes" sounds awesomely convenient to me.
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Is Tim saying AI use is political?

It's a tool. And people can be opposed to that tool for a variety of reasons.

What a dipshit. I'm not even blanket opposed to AI use in game dev, depending on the context.

If Valve takes AI disclosures away, the next best metric the so-called "mob" has for GenAI disclosure is whether the game is using UE6 or not. I don't think Tim or Epic's partners would like how that ends for them.
 
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Isn't this game a F2P?

Aren't they at 0% fee on EGS if they use their own payment processor? They already have their own client so they must have payment processing already setup for this game for the standalone version, so... what the hell is going on?

By cutting it on EGS, are they essentially saying it was more cost effective to not have the game on EGS than them taking 100%?
 
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Alexandros said:
"What if you could have Steam on Android", I like how he presents it as such a novel idea, meanwhile Vave is already moving in that direction full speed and people are already playing Steam games on Android via Gamenative.
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Sweeney muzzled himself in a completely optional legal agreement to not criticise Google weeks before they announced the turbo-enshittification of the entire Android platform. This was after he'd not long won a lawsuit against them.

He needs Valve to compete on Android because he willingly vassaled himself to Google and obviously regrets it.

Also, all this posturing about Steam not having Fortnite is likely the beginning of a campaign to convince Valve to give him money for it.

The man's a fool.
 
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Sweeney muzzled himself in a completely optional legal agreement to not criticise Google weeks before they announced the turbo-enshittification of the entire Android platform. This was after he'd not long won a lawsuit against them.

He needs Valve to compete on Android because he willingly vassaled himself to Google and obviously regrets it.

Also, all this posturing about Steam not having Fortnite is likely the beginning of a campaign to convince Valve to give him money for it.

The man's a fool.
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I can’t imagine how much it pisses off Tim that he can’t whine about Google. I imagine he’ll eventually slip up given how chronically online he is.
 
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Supreme Court Will Hear Apple's Appeal in Epic Games App Store Fight

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear Apple's appeal against the contempt ruling that forced it to change its App Store linking rules, reports Reuters. In a statement to MacRumors, Apple said the court's decision was welcome news. This is an important question of law and we are...
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The Supreme Court took up the Apple/Epic case. Just skimming some articles, it seems like the major point is whether Apple violated the spirit of the law with the 27% commission for link outs. The hearing will begin some time in the fall and a final verdict is probably a year away.

...I wonder if Clarence Thomas needs a new iPhone. 🤔
 
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Arc said:
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Supreme Court Will Hear Apple's Appeal in Epic Games App Store Fight

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear Apple's appeal against the contempt ruling that forced it to change its App Store linking rules, reports Reuters. In a statement to MacRumors, Apple said the court's decision was welcome news. This is an important question of law and we are...
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The Supreme Court took up the Apple/Epic case. Just skimming some articles, it seems like the major point is whether Apple violated the spirit of the law with the 27% commission for link outs. The hearing will begin some time in the fall and a final verdict is probably a year away.

...I wonder if Clarence Thomas needs a new iPhone. 🤔
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Tim Sweeney Twitter tirade incoming.
 
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Alexandros said:
It kinda sounds like he's worried because Fortnite is losing steam (pun intended) and he's looking for ways to revitalize it, Launching on Steam would probably give Fortnite a shot in the arm and access to a new audience.
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Fortnite actually had a pretty nice recovery in June (average CCU is +35% from May and the highest it's been since January. Still down about 10% from June 2025, but it isn't in disaster territory any more). They added a new mechanic where you collect "Sprites" which are basically Pokemon and you'll wanna catch 'em all. They also added FOMO events with Sprites every week that have really boosted the player count.

Ironically the UEFN modes have fallen off quite a bit (and the Brainrot games are down big time).
 
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Arc said:
Fortnite actually had a pretty nice recovery in June (average CCU is +35% from May and the highest it's been since January. Still down about 10% from June 2025, but it isn't in disaster territory any more). They added a new mechanic where you collect "Sprites" which are basically Pokemon and you'll wanna catch 'em all. They also added FOMO events with Sprites every week that have really boosted the player count.

Ironically the UEFN modes have fallen off quite a bit (and the Brainrot games are down big time).
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Yeah I know it recovers from time to time with various events but I think Epic sees an overall steady downward trend. That's probably what has them spooked.
 
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To me Destiny1/2 felt like a game with a very very healthy 2nd tier type audience size that made a lot of money but Bungie had designs on turning it into a 1st tier type audience and get their own money printer and they projected and spent accordingly only to fail and not grow the audience again and again and again and when they finally gave up they cashed out and sold high to Sony.
 
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