They only did that because they wanted their walled garden to be there too. Tim Sweeney is just butthurt his walled garden isn’t the biggest
To be honest, Epic is doing a good job of tearing down walled gardens in places like mobile, and we’ll probably be better off for it. But yeah, they’ve done a terrible job of competing with Steam.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 hours ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Of course, but…broken clock, you know? A large percentage of personal computers will be freed from Windows in large part because of Valve, even though they profit off of legalized child gambling addiction. And walled gardens in mobile will be broken down in large part because of Epic, which uses dark patterns to trick people out of their money in pursuit of a cultural hodge podge of nonsense that won’t even exist in a few decades.
doublah@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
The problem there comes from Epic taking secret deals to settle those cases instead of let any precedent be set that would actually benefit customers.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They’re doing that because they want their own walled garden.