Quoting: WORM

Quoting: MalQuite the opposite actually. Madbro literally proved to the world that 30% is the right cut. He has shown with his own very feats that it is not possible to offer a better service than Steam with a lower cut. At this point any smart developer should rally behind Valve.

I disagree. Steam has shown that it IS possible to offer a better service while taking a smaller cut, since that's absolutely what they did themselves!

Lower margins? Sure. But a world where 2 platforms compete over users with features and quality of service... and remain profitable enough? Madbro didn't even try it. And not just becuase doing so with less than 30% would have been close to impossible (Steam is not a just a mere client, the client is just what unaware gamers see and every open source community can put together one comparable or better) but because even then in a world with Steam and a -non retarded- EGS, with a lot of investments in features and improvements to remain on top of your rival, the actual margins left for Valve and Epic would have made the entire operation pointless for Epic.

He's maybe a cunt, for sure toward PC gamers, but he is not a fool. He tried to change the paradigm and aimed to build a new walled garden monopoly on PC from which to extract levies, with an alliance of convenience with large and greedy publishers. The Apple model. Which he failed to thanks for (and to) us.
But he never tried to do better than, or comparable to, Steam and to compete. He didn't even try to offer a subpar service while slashing game prices to offer an alternative package to gamers. He didn't because he clearly made the math and knows it's not feaseable while keeping good margins. And if even he can't do it (again, he's not a fool, but a competent developer and businessman), nobody else today can. Maybe in 10 years from now with new tech. But not today.

Chapeau to him for having put the money where his mouth is though. And PC gamers for having shown that they are not gullible idiots like consumers in other markets tipically are.

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Quoting: WORMSweeney is correct. Valve's cut was (and is, to a slightly lesser extent) quite greedy

Quite the opposite actually. Madbro literally proved to the world that 30% is the right cut. He has shown with his own very feats that it is not possible to offer a better service than Steam with a lower cut. At this point any smart developer should rally behind Valve. In a PC market dominated by EGS the only way to prevent people from returning to the high seas is to hand out games for free. And even then it's arguable that in between the two options EGS is where the better customer experience is.

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Timmy "Madbro" Sweeney. I'm kind of envious. I think it's an awesome gamer tag. :grin:

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelija

too many "big bets across the company"

of course, it's great to take big bets, as long as others (11%) pay the bill.

moreover it's pretty obvious that if I have many projects going on I need to reduce the workforce. A company wants to hire only when there is no job to do.

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I wouldn't be comfortable with any service managed by Ubisoft.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualIt's definitely great that Epic won the antitrust case, because that means Google lost, and Google is the first large tech company in more than 20 years to lose an antitrust case. It indicates a paradigm shift. Hopefully the remedies will be meaningful.

Dunno. As far as I can see, it just means the end of semi walled gardens platforms. Sweeney might think that he can just start leeching from Google work on Android, but his win combined with Apple one is just a signal to tech firms that US law allows closed systems or open systems, no mid ground. Google will most likely rectify this by building its own iPhones. I guess it's good overall, Android was a little hypocritical in the end (technically open, but not commercially due to Google deals behind the scenes). It was just a mean to prevent the likes of Samsung, LG and the rest to play competitors at a time when Google had no hardware experience. But now it has it. For a time it will look interesting but I'm 80% sure it will end the same way as now, just with iPhones vs Pixels instead of droids. All the rest marginalized. And more transparency on the business models which doesn't hurt.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI'm not quite sure what Sweeney is referring to by "the Linux problem". It's such a short answer that it could be a reference to so many things. Steam Deck sales are currently at a few million, but my guess is they will cap out at ~8.9.

The "Linux problem" is a platform you can't close and take control to. Where for all the inconveniences and hussles you can create to coerce users, someone develops a workaround.

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Am I the only one here that thinks Linux is better without that stuff? I mean, I wouldn't be happy if my childrens were playing that game. And as far as adults go, ofc they can and should play whathever they want microtransactions or not... but this game seems to target and prey upon teens specifically.

But yeah, sooner or later, as the OS rise in popularity thrash and garbage will also start to be ported. Linux being open and free, nothing bars vultures like Epic to bring their addictive crap.

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It seems the eu parliament is finally taking the first steps [External Link] toward erasing the hypocrisy of the no geolocking "unless your business is more equal than the others". We will see how it goes. Those are powerful lobbies to antagonize.

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They are a publicly traded company since quite a while. They follow a different credo now.

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As Reddit common sense goes: 100% of 0 is still 0.

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