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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] urda@lebowski.social 117 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tim Sweeney is literally the biggest fucking cry baby I’ve ever seen.

I won’t touch anything Epic because of such a man child he has become.

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

I don’t care about his crying as much as I’m annoyed they won’t make anymore Unreal games

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Hey if him being a giant baby keeps giving me free games let the manbaby cook.

Mankind Divided is free right now btw

[–] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not worth me being a statistic that they can sell to investors imo. Fuck Epic.

Besides, that game’s been on sale for less than $5 on Steam.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"As you can see, a whole bunch of people joined our service, downloaded games we paid literally millions for from our servers and didn't give us money" isn't a good pitch.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It’s not, no. Would you imagine they would pitch free players as potential future customers?

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

It is the only reason I have epic installed. Not planning to buy anything but they got their foot in the door

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Fooling investors into thinking people will just start paying them for a worse experience than you can get on Steam is funny but even they should realize once they look at the financials.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like…

they rope kids in with the free price tag over the summer, school starts and they get bullied for only having the default Fortnite skin, and suddenly the “customer” “converts“.

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago

Investors (not China)

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Mankind Divided is free right now btw

It's not free. The point is to get me to make an account on Epic and install their stupid launcher. That isn't free and I'm tired of people claiming things are "free" when in fact they exist to get you to sign up for another service. It's not free-as-in-air.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, on Linux (e.g. my Steam Deck), I can just install Heroic Launcher and don't need their stupid launcher whatsoever.

[–] CrayCray@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I am playing my epic games exclusively via heroic and it is a blast.

[–] Kaijobu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I am missing an equivalent community to "fuck epic". With all the relevant information of why this service is still not a good idea to follow, even by grabbing their games "for free".

Edit: Like this extensive summery: https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/bs4kh6/rfuckepic_for_dummies_a_quick_breakdown/

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're right, but I do appreciate getting GTA V for $0. They'll never get a cent from me but I'll take their games. I'm also running Windows so nothing about my gaming is free-as-in-air anyways

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you -- depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That's my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.

[–] v0rld@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well if they can turn fakeaccount53643@yahoo.com into money they honestly deserve the 50 cent they're getting for it.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They can. That's literally what data brokers do.

[–] v0rld@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

But it wasn't worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn't really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.

[–] Mako_Bunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Fingerprinting though

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

We know it isnt free free. But in this economy you take what you can get.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

The horror 😔