When I'm in a bad take competition and my opponent is Tim Sweeney.
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When I'm in a bad take competition and my opponent is Tim Sweeney.
Sometimes I really am surprised how much of an idiot he is.
Ive stopped being surprised, I would be more surprised if ever had a good take on something
I should stop checking this thread. Every time I look there is a tweet from him that just makes me incredibly angry.
The man is a moron.
The man is a moron.
You can be genuinly smart/genius at one specific area, but be ignorant/stupid about everything else.
Be sure to redeem your Humble Bundle keys ASAP. Sure would hate for you to be required to use a different platform.
Be sure to redeem your Humble Bundle keys ASAP. Sure would hate for you to be required to use a different platform.
Emh pretty sure thats illegal, cant change the product after it has been sold already.
I'd think so. Hope it kills Humble sales to favor Epic keys. Guess we can expect a Steam sucks streak from IGN/subs like PC gamer's before they switched back?
In the US it's probably legal as companies seem to make up laws by Terms of Service.
Wouldn't fly in other countries though. That won't stop them from trying, however.
Epic Games Announces Publishing Partnerships With EYES OUT and Spry Fox
Read about the exciting new publishing partnership between Epic Games and game studios Spry Fox and EYES OUT! Both studios are in the early stages of developing their original games.
Several years ago Epic announced they were publishing games from Spry Fox and Eyes Out. Well said games have Steam store pages but nothing on EGS (yet). Blumhouse published the Eyes Out game and Spry Fox is self publishing their game (after buying their independence from Netflix). I'd like to know the behind-the-scenes drama, but I don't think we'll ever get juicy deets.
Apple wins partial reversal of sanctions in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit
Apple on Thursday persuaded a U.S. appeals court to reverse parts of a court order requiring the iPhone maker to make changes to its lucrative App Store to promote greater competition, but lost its bid to overturn a sweeping injunction.
www.reuters.com
tl;dr: Apple was able to convince an appeals court that it is entitled to some commission for purchases made on iOS using external links, but the judge will probably determine what that rate is. It probably means that Epic's cash back program will get nerfed or nixed on iOS.
Also Fortnite is back on Google Play (just for the US for now).
Edit:
Also this is funny
He's wishcasting that Apple will only charge 100 bucks to review an update for all external link purchases especially as the judgement specifically mentions intellectual property which is an intangible that Apple will try really hard to make seem like is worth a lot. Apple will probably want something high like a 15% fee then it settles to something significantly smaller like 2-5%.
Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store
After a multi-year hiatus, popular battle royale Fortnite is now officially back on the Google Play Store.
9to5google.com
Epic is pushing this mode hard (and I see why as it's the first thing from their metaverse that has took off). I've got no less than three ads for it on YouTube in the past day (including one before a history video ffs).
Yeah it's currently #3 on the Google Play charts (behind Where Winds Meet and Block Blast). Hasn't caused a big increase in CCU yet, but it's only available in the US for now.Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store
After a multi-year hiatus, popular battle royale Fortnite is now officially back on the Google Play Store.
Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy”
Why do gamers refuse to use the Epic Games Store? Former Epic exclusive Witchfire developer Adrian Chmielarz explains its because Steam is a home.
frvr.com
"... that's why we made our game egsclusive for a year"Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy”
Why do gamers refuse to use the Epic Games Store? Former Epic exclusive Witchfire developer Adrian Chmielarz explains its because Steam is a home.
Epic has been talking about a big social push next year and they recently added Fortnite community forums which will probably expand to EGS in the future. They also reimplemented text chat after it was removed over 4 years ago.
I'd put a lot of the blame for EGS being so antisocial on Galyonkin who tried to sell the lack of features as a bonus.
I'd put a lot of the blame for EGS being so antisocial on Galyonkin who tried to sell the lack of features as a bonus.
Apple's new fee structure in Japan:
The 5% fee for third party stores makes EGS Mobile non-viable as their own payment processing eats into the 12% cut and the web link fee kills Fortnite's rebate perk for using alternate payment processors.
I know Apple had a proposed 5% fee for third-party stores instead of the $0.50 per-download fee they have now appease the EU and the DMA but I don't know if it will pass or not but we might be seeing their gameplan for future litigation. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple asks for 10-15% for third party payments in the US (and it'll probably get slapped down as the judge is mad that Apple went with 27% years ago).