ask any game dev if they’re happy Epic won this battle? If they say no then they’ve never tried to release a game on a marketplace. This is a huge win for developers.

I am a dev. I said I’m glad they won. Epic still sucks, though.

so am i. And I’ll agree epic sucks in some ways, sweeney in more, but they also provide a relatively awesome toolset. i think epic has gotten a lot of undue hate just for having a marketplace seperate from steam - but steam has been exploiting devs for a long ass time too.

We have laws to protect children, no other companies: we need laws that hit hard companies that don’t respect people (and other companies)'s rights.

Well. Being profitable would be a good start.

We have laws to protect children

Hahaha, good one.

we need laws that hit hard companies that don’t respect people (and other companies)'s rights.

In the US? That’s not going to happen. The US is run by corporations.

“… Long national nightmare…”. I think this guy likes his hyperbole. Trump, DOGE, and the rest of the current government? National nightmare. Russia attempting to invade Ukraine? National nightmare. Israel killing thousands of children in a bid to wipe out an entire populace? NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. This guy needs to visit reality more often.

That’s the legal argument

The person I replied to was asking if Epic would port everyone’s game to Linux because of the IOS cost savings, when Steam takes the same cut it actually is all that matters in that argument

It’s lacking s bunch of basic functionality that, for example, stream has. Even Epic itself admitted that it’s not great.

Epic Games Launcher Is Indeed Clunky, Admits Epic's Tim Sweeney

Epic founder, president, and largest shareholder Tim Sweeney admitted that the Epic Games Launcher is indeed clunky, as the users say.

Wccftech (wccftech.com)

Nah. The girls are good. THE GROWN BILLIONAIRE MEN are fighting. Don’t rope women in to this.

Billionaires are fucking weird.

The rich don’t live in reality

That was a reference to AOC making fun of Trump and Elon

I know. AOC should know better.

And unlike Apple, it’s completely optional to release on steam

Tim Weenie can go kick rocks, barefoot.

They’re a privately held company, so afaik don’t have to release public earnings statements.

If you’re talking about the financials made public as a part of the Apple v Epic lawsuit, I’m pretty sure they just show that Epic Game Store isn’t profitable, not that Epic isn’t profitable.

Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a penny of profit

Epic hoped to scoop up half of all PC gaming revenue back in 2021.

Rock Paper Shotgun (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

Tim Sweeney’s Epic Games Store Is Still Losing Money After Five Years

That’s straight from Epic Games Store head Steve Allison on the witness stand who admitted the storefront is still losing money.

Forbes (www.forbes.com)

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-epic-games-store-still-isnt-profitable-nearly-five-years-after-launch

The Epic Games Store still isn’t profitable.

We knew the company was spending millions to give away free games every week, but we’d heard it was a bit of a money sink despite not actually paying for each and every copy given away. In case you’re keeping track, Epic Games Store boss Steve Allison says on the witness stand his store isn’t profitable yet. The goal is still growth, he says. Emails revealed during the Epic v. Apple trial suggested the company was hoping to claim half of all PC gaming revenue.

The Verge (www.theverge.com)

The Epic Games Store isn't profitable after five years, growth is still Epic's "goal"

Epic Games has admitted that its digital storefront still isn't profitable after launching five years ago.

TechRadar (www.techradar.com)

It’d be easier to side with Epic if they put really any effort at all into the Epic Games Store. I know there’s a lot of features to catch up on to be competitive to Steam, but considering they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on exclusivity, you’d think they would spend more on improving EGS.

To some extent, people will hate EGS anyway, but if they just quietly trucked along adding feature after feature, those that use it would spread the word. Instead, it largely stagnated and people kept reporting to others that it generally still sucks.

Playing catch-up takes time but at least the company that does already has an enumerated list of features to implement and can glean ideas about how to do so.

That’s irrelevant to the comment I was replying to

All your links say Epic GAME STORE isn’t making money, which is exactly what I fucking said. Epic the entire company can be profitable while the storefront is not.

Big hint, Fortnite in game purchases and Unreal Engine license sales print money for Epic. You’re willfully ignorant at this point bro.

You do realize what the difference between a company and a specific business line is right?