Heroic is not made by Epic. We’re talking about first class first-party support. And Heroic doesn’t work very well either.

We don’t want first party support

Stores are stores

Launchers are launchers

Communities are communities

Software works when it is specialized and leaves open for others to build on

Weaponized autism? You mean obscene Fortnite money?

“We” very much do. I have no interest in spending my days debugging broken software.

Then you wouldn’t like steam on linux after various updates

Steam on Linux works perfectly.

What’s the cat in the hat line? You’re not just wrong, you’re stupid

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux

Issue tracking for the Steam for Linux beta client - ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux

GitHub (github.com)

Not every issue is on Valve but saying it’s perfect just shows you haven’t used it

And you certainly didn’t use it back when the file dialogue couldn’t view outside the steam directory

Well that’s unnecessarily fucking rude.

What I meant was, it works perfectly for me.

And you certainly didn’t use it back when the file dialogue couldn’t view outside the steam directory

…I don’t understand what that has to do with anything. I don’t play games in the past.

Give Tim Sweeney lots of money? Why would the government do that?

…why would anyone do that?

I mean, it’s what you’re celebrating.

You can make some vague claims that it’s going to be good for small businesses and independent developers… but realistically it’s only going to pad the pockets of the already rich. Any benefit to anyone else is going to be negligible.

I mean, it’s what you’re celebrating.

I don’t even know what money you’re talking about. Hard to celebrate that.

realistically it’s only going to pad the pockets of the already rich

…you mean Apple? No. It will benefit literally everyone else.

… do you think Apple is the only highly successful company in the world? There’s tons of others… like Epic.

I don’t even know what money you’re talking about. Hard to celebrate that.

At least you admit to your ignorance, that’s the first step to actually knowing what the hell you’re talking about

You would know it’s imperfect

I apologize for being rude and now you have a resource to use when something goes wrong

do you think Apple is the only highly successful company in the world?

No just one of the most profitable in the world.

There’s tons of others… like Epic.

Epic is not “successful”, by any standard.

that’s the first step to actually knowing what the hell you’re talking about

I know exactly what I’m talking about. I just don’t know what you’re talking about.

What a dumb bar to judge them by. Not a single entity with an interest in fighting this fight would be doing it out of the goodness of their hearts

The only business who is losing anything here is Apple.

Literally anyone else, including your solo dev kid cousin, who just made his first game, wins from this

They did a good thing but I still get to judge them for ultimately being greedy.

Apple v Epic is like the Trump-Elon fight. Apple, like Trump, does more and lasting damage. Sweeny, like Elon, is somehow even more hate-able.

I don’t want either side to win, I want both sides to lose.

Now Epic can finally install their own payment system, bypassing Apple’s parental controls, and little Timmy can just enter the details from mommy’s credit card when Epic gets him addicted to gambling loot boxes.

Such a win for consumers.