Sure there Tim.
Ohh, so it’s NOT all the paid exclusives that held gaming back? Fuck off Tim.
I’d rather never play a game again than use the Epic client even once, so I’m not sure you are correct there, Timmy.
Projecting are we?
The only thing, between the two (Valve and Epic), that has held gaming back, were those stupid Epic exclusives. Fuck them.
Oh yes, let’s all listen to the man that said if a game is to be successful it must launch on their competitors platform, Steam.
Valve created a great online store front, they have also made sure other storefronts can’t rise through monopolistic practices.
Tim is full of shit.
Every accusation is a confession with guys like him.
Waaa, I wanna be Valve! 😭🍼
He just wants the customer base of Valve and then use the “monopoly” to generate lots and lots of shareholder value. It would be an Epic shitshow.
It’s always been an Epic shitshow, just like this dehydrated shart.
“That’s supposed to be my job!”
The client is basically irrelevant in this day and age. Anyone could build one better than Steam and it wouldn’t even be hard. I only bring it up because it’s what everyone talks about when defending Steam. Like it’s still 2024 and these things are hard. Steam’s only remaining value is its network.
No sir. Trust. Steam has earned trust from their customers. THAT is what the 30% cut pays for. Trust that we wont get scammed. Trust that it “just works”. Trust that the service provider keeps our interests in mind when making decisions, not just the shareholders. Trust that Valve is in it for the long haul and our library purchases won’t just poof on us. That doesn’t mean there isn’t risk, but there is trust. I can’t say the same for Epic.
I mean, Timmy’s got our trust, let’s be fair.
The entirety of the world’s video gaming population trusts him to continue being a weeping zit every single day of his useless life. ☝🏼
I don’t think so Tim.
George of the Jungle still slaps three decades later.
I’m betting that one of Fraser’s sons’ll reprise his role in a sequel. 🤞🏼
I claim Tim Sweeny is a little bitch. See how easy that is.
“Valve has held gaming back for years by locking developers’ PC games into Steamworks’ social walled garden where players can’t talk to other players on iOS, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, or even other PC stores.”
my guy lemmy, matrix, reddit, discord, forums and even your local library game night exists. You simply cannot be such a simpleton.
That and what he said is untrue as hell. Steam games can communicate with other platforms. Sf6, sf5, baldurs gate, divinity original sins, pso2, killer instinct, … And the list goes on and on
Jesus, is Sweeney undergoing some form of AI psychosis? Or is he just generally unhinged?
Why not both?
Yes.
Don’t Epic sell a walled garden in Unreal engine?
You know after PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds moved from being an Arma mod to a standalone game using the Unreal engine… Their developers at Unreal worked closely with PUBG to modify the engine during the Battle Royale craze a few years ago. Epic took those engine changes that PUBG was basically funding and this led to creating Fortnite. Now that Epic had a copycat battle royale game, they needed a game store, and created the Epic Games Store to compete with Steam. The goal was to have a distribution channel for other games built on the Unreal engine. The new Epic Games Store cut for developers was 12% instead of 30% from Steam. But there was a hidden cost in that the engine itself required a license fee, somewhere between 5 and 10% of the revenue. So really, he is just mad that after all these years, Steam is still in the lead and the Epic Games Store would charge close to 30% (if it could)…
Wasn’t Overwatch and, uh… Dota? their main games that kept them afloat until Fortnite release? Interesting lore about Pung/Fortnite Unreal engine though!
I’m not sure how you’ve managed to get things this twisted up. Overwatch is from blizzard, who are doing fine. Dota 2 is from Valve themselves and is steam exclusive. And as a swede, I can’t complain about calling pubg pung 😄
Hahaha thank you for straightening that out! Funnily enough, Pubg got autocorrected to pung, I’m also a swede!
Stop giving this sad twat any attention.
