Well, I'm sad for the hundreds of people who lost their jobs.
But if hundreds of people were going to lose their jobs, I'm pleased it's a signal that Epic is doing badly.

As to the Epic store . . . I don't think their cute shallow tricks with the exclusives and free games and this and that were ever going to build that store into serious competition for Steam. I'd go so far as to say it was a bad strategy and playing it straight, building up the store's features and doing things in harder, more high road kinds of ways would have been a better strategy. That said, it still probably wouldn't have worked. Trying to create a major competitor to Steam is really hard, because of network effects and because Valve do a pretty good job. I think Epic's plan was kind of doomed from the start; their belief that with enough money to sink into it they could pull it off was fundamentally mistaken.

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Quoting: Grogan

Quoting: PenglingHow many buzzwords does this guy use? Yikes!

Buzzwords are a pet peeve of mine and as long as the execs can keep coming up with presentations full of them, it won't be them losing their jobs.

Listen to how this flows, he nailed it :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4 [External Link]

I especially hate IT parroting full of buzzwords. I wish those twits realized how dumb they sound, it's a turn off for me.

Weird Al is a genius and I love the way he not only did this, but did it with a totally hippie "Peter Paul and Mary" kind of vibe that's totally at odds with the whole corporate culture thing.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Quoting: PenglingSeriously, though, this is yet another example of why consolidation is bad for everyone. Why is it never the high-ups who took the company in this direction who lose their jobs for it? :unsure:

Simple....... Its costs more in payouts to fire the CEO or Board or Upper management than it does to fire the office grunts...... Thats why the office grunts are the first to go......

That is so not the reason. The reason is the execs are the ones with the power, making the firing choices. "Hmmm . . . should I fire myself, or a bunch of guys I've never met? Decisions, decisions . . ."

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: U.S. GovernmentA person may obtain a compulsory license only if the primary purpose in making phonorecords of the musical work is to distribute them to the public for private use

The language in this is perplexing. You distribute them publicly for private use?

I believe what it means is, the members of the public you distribute to cannot use what they get in a public performance, which the copyright holder would expect separate royalties from.

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Quoting: hardpenguinOkay, I really wanna fight zombies in my own neighbourhood so I am sold 😁

I'm sold on the feature, but I think I'll fight zombies a bit closer to downtown, 'cause my neighbourhood is wide open. Especially since the maps probably don't include the blackberry bushes.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleDon't like this. The long term result of this is that they will stop offering regional pricing.

Ehhh, probably not. I don't think this slope is very slippery because there are no other confederations like the EU, where a bunch of different countries partly share the same legal system.

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Quoting: CatKiller

To sum up Valve tried blocking people buying games in different EU regions to get them cheaper, which is a breach of EU rules.

To be clear, it wasn't an action by Valve as such, and it wasn't sales on Steam. The publishers had their region restrictions on sales (which aren't allowed within the EU) and gave out Steam keys (for which Valve didn't get money); the publishers used Steam's region locks to prevent activation of those EU keys elsewhere within the EU, and Valve let them. That's why Valve got fined, but that's also why the fine is quite small. Valve subsequently fixed their tools so that publishers can't prevent activation within the EU of something sold within the EU, so it's just that historical breach.

You are always a veritable mine of relevant information.

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Well, it looks quite impressive, at any rate.

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Quoting: Mr. PinskyI got this game just yesterday, it's neat!

And nice to have native Linux support :)

Probably made easier by their use of Godot.

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Quoting: GroganThe need to compete against other people rather than cooperate is a bug, not a feature, of humanity :-)

Even people who cooperate, try to out-cooperate others. If the reward isn't money, it's recognition and ego.

Not gonna disagree. But it does suggest that if we could just make recognition and ego operate as a bigger reward than money, we'd have a lot of problems whipped.

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