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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And the fact that Epic couldn't cobble together a content delivery platform that supported preloading before BL3's release.

And the fact that they used Steam essentially as an advertising platform until the TOS was changed.