Unearthed emails show the fury that helped motivate Epic’s Games Store launch.
“This is the story of how one man saw a BR game, copied the living shit out of it, then whined endlessly about his own greed”
“You a—holes”: Court docs reveal Epic CEO’s anger at Steam’s 30% fees
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Splatterphace@lemm.ee 8 months ago
cloudless@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So Sweeney negotiates business like a schoolkid?
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Valve COO Scott Lynch simply offered up a sardonic “You mad bro?”
Both these people seem terrible.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s a completely fine response to someone calling you an asshole.
CameronDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
He said that in an internal email right? At least thats how i read it.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I refuse to believe Sweeney on principle alone after all the bullshit he’s been peddling for years. Is 30% too big a fee for a digital distribution platform these days? Probably. Is 12% not really profitable, despite EGS only offering a fraction of the features? Probably. Has EGS accomplished anything for “the little guy” besides alienating customers through exclusivity deals and increasing big publisher margins? Not really. Is Sweeney trying to use public outrage and weird arguments around morality and market fairness to try and get himself into the position of the profitable middleman? Definitely.