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Tim thinks that the Tesla protests are funded by George Soros and Tesla competitors:
Karl Bode (@karlbode.com)
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks the Tesla protests are being covertly funded by George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and Tesla competitors using shady proxy orgs they can't fathom that the backlash to this burning clownshow could be at all genuinebsky.app
As if I needed another reason to dislike Timmy.
Epic Games bought out another company called Loci:
Got money to buy AI shite but not enough to keep staff on payroll.
I know it's not an apples:apples comparison as the CS numbers are people who are in client and Fortnite are people who are actually on a game server, but Fortnite's numbers are extremely swingy. Also FN peaks around 2.5 million on weekends, but still.
A lot of CS's player numbers are likely bots farming the new cases, but still.
Also Roblox dwarfs both games and peaked at like 8 million CCU today and >13 million on weekends.
No but you see they're going to help with the Metaverse (that has less players than games like Schedule I).
The fact CSGO can get similar numbers to Fortnite despite CS being PC only and Fortnite being on almost everything is very impressive.
Tim Sweeney chimes in with another banger of a political analogy.
I was being a bit disingenuous as spring is usually Fortnite's low point for player numbers and it still does >2-2.5 million on the weekend. Also the CS numbers are inflated as there are a lot of bots farming cases, but Valve might be in the middle of a ban wave so numbers could drop a bit. I don't deny there's some degree of botting in CS, but I don't think it's as egregious as say Banana or Team Fortress 2.
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
The judge called Apple’s insubordination a “gross miscalculation.“
www.theverge.com
Apple got greedy.
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Like, really greedy.
I bet Apple takes that all the way to the Supreme Court.
Tim says big EGS news coming soon
I’m guessing mobile related.
I’m guessing mobile related.
Edit: The blog post got pulled but that's probably the big news.
Edit2: The blog post is back but the $1 million is now per app per year instead of just lifetime revenue.
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Damn I can smell the desperation straight out of that text
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It takes a special kind of mess to lose against Sweeney of all people.
0% makes great headlines, but how epic is planning to make store profitable or at least sustainable?
I feel dirty but I am actually glad this happened. Next, go after the console makers and Alphabet. Break down these walled gardens.
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They're banking on a breakout F2P hit using their IAP functions. That and they will roll back the 0% fees over time (boiling the frog by incrementally dropping that $1m threshold down) if the service becomes well utilised.
I can see why Epic are making this. They're gonna have to do something like this to get Fortnite on iOS under terms they find acceptable, so might as well extend it to everyone else. They're not providing downloads or anything like that, so the main cost of this is the transaction fees that they'll be eating. Those are pretty small in the scheme of things, and at the scale Epic operates at with Fortnite they likely have a good deal with most companies dealing in that kinda thing.
I can see why Epic are making this. They're gonna have to do something like this to get Fortnite on iOS under terms they find acceptable, so might as well extend it to everyone else. They're not providing downloads or anything like that, so the main cost of this is the transaction fees that they'll be eating. Those are pretty small in the scheme of things, and at the scale Epic operates at with Fortnite they likely have a good deal with most companies dealing in that kinda thing.
Tim Sweeney wants the Epic Games Store on consoles, but isn't going to sue over it
PLUS: Grand Theft Auto VI delayed to MMXXVI.
www.gamefile.news
Mask off baybee. I bet console fans would love that.
It's a weak argument as Nintendo hardware is famously profitable and the PS5 was only sold at a loss for a few months and profitable as of 2021 (but with tariff buffoonery who knows at this point). Also the $700 PS5 Pro is testing the waters for a more expensive base PS6 that won't lose as much money or even be profitable.
I think Microsoft's hardware has always been unprofitable, but I get the feeling that won't be the case going forward as they're slowly bowing out of the console market and future Xbox hardware will likely become an expensive boutique item.
I fully expect the next Xbox to support Steam and EGS. Sony and Nintendo though? Better start drafting those lawsuits.
I always found the they can charge you 30% because they sell at a loss a weak argument (and let's ignore that this gen console prices have been going UP). We all know that even if the iPhone was sold at a loss, all this would have happened all the same.
My argument has always been: so what? Nobody put a gun to the head of Sony and Microsoft execs to sell hardware at a loss. They don't have a god-given right to run a razor and blades model. If Apple has to open up, so should everyone else.