It's sad that any of this was ever allowed to happen in the first place, and that it took a giant corporation to break it up. This shit should have been stomped out 20 years ago when it was beginning.
Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again
donuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A jury saw secret revenue sharing deals between Google, smartphone makers, and game developers. The jury saw internal emails between Google execs that suggested Google was scared of how Epic might convince its fellow game developers to join or create rival app stores, creating unwanted competition for Google.
Fuck Epic and all that, but a silver lining that this has bubbled up because of it
artyom@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Adalast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All Valve would have to do is announce that they would be making sale and install of mobile games and apps through the Steam App and the entire industry would shit the bed.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
honestly, my opinion of epic is starting to improve more and more with every legal case they open.
They are bringing what everyone knew was going on into official record and forcing the countries to do something about it. I’m rooting for em
zuch0698o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t fall for the trap. It’s one billionaire mad at the other. Epic has alot of puff but no real pazzaz for their store.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
it’s also bankrolled by Tencent.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Is that a bad thing?
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. Tim just wants his shitty App Store in more places so he can make his own anti competitive deals to force people to use it.
greenskye@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I wish more people could recognize you can support specific actions without liking or approving of the entity taking those actions. It’s not a binary choice.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
in this case, the specific action gives the entity an unfair advantage in the global market. Epic (with the help from tencent) is suing US companies for antitrust laws, but tencent benefits from exactly that with stores like Steam and Google play outright banned in china. They have the entire chinese market to themselves and use the profit from that to push out further into the global market by doing stuff exactly like this.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Epic is mostly owned by Tencent which is a chinese company that directly benefits from Chinese Governement sponsored monopolies. China legally banned US based stores like Steam and Google Play.
Epic is not here to do you favors, they are here to push Tencent and China’s global agenda.
silentdon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Any benefit to you is incidental to them trying to make a profit. Don’t be fooled into thinking they are fighting for you.