Google discussed teaming up with Tencent to buy Epic Games (www.tweaktown.com)
from mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to games@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 01:36
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QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 01:37 next collapse

AWW HELL NAH. 😤 This bettah not happen.

ono@lemmy.ca on 21 Nov 2023 01:59 next collapse

Great evil + great evil + smaller evil = ?

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc on 21 Nov 2023 02:17 next collapse

Absolute Evil.

NegativeInf@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 03:24 collapse

Profit!

qooqie@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 01:59 next collapse

Abso-fucking-lutely not. That’ll be the death of epic and unreal engine as we know it if it ever happened. And why team up with Google if you know they’ll abandon it in 2-3 years?

Fredselfish@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 02:02 next collapse

Yeah first thing they probably do is end the free games and without it I wouldn’t have any games on Epic nor use the platform. It would suck.

mrbaby@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 02:41 next collapse

Just let us play with our balls in peace! :(

~ rocket league players

kadu@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 02:51 next collapse

That’ll be the death of epic

Don’t threaten me with a good time

BURN@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 06:16 next collapse

The loss of unreal would be rough for the industry. We’d be better off without Epic, but not without unreal

Destraight@lemm.ee on 21 Nov 2023 16:25 collapse

I really enjoyed THE FINALS, but I don’t play much games with unreal engine so I can see a future without Epic Games

BURN@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 16:27 collapse

Pretty much the majority of (large) single player games in development or recently released have been unreal properties. It’s by far the best game engine for its use cases

treesapx@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 22:17 collapse

This is it. Most games beyond small scope/indie projects start in Unreal.

BURN@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 23:19 collapse

Unreal or Unity, and one of those recently became not really an option.

I think it’s in everyone’s interest to have more variety in engine choice, but that just leads to everyone only being familiar with their proprietary engine implementation.

Godot is trying to break in, and seems to be picking up some steam though

lorty@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 2023 12:03 next collapse

Epic does a lot good things that aren’t competing with the de facto monopoly on pc game sales.

[deleted] on 21 Nov 2023 12:20 next collapse

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brawleryukon@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 13:29 next collapse

the company who decides to sign exclusivity agreements for PC games

Why you so interested in killing Valve and GOG?

forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40203

gearboxpublishing.com/…/homeworld-emergence-the-s…

They both did it before Epic did.

[deleted] on 21 Nov 2023 14:09 collapse

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brawleryukon@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 15:40 collapse

Yes, comical that Valve secured exlusivity of an already-on-sale third-party game to try to drive support of their nascent digital store more than a decade before Epic did it and you fanboys are all just okay with it because you weren’t there.

You all try to pretend that Epic invented this sort of exclusivity on PC, but it’s been a thing for years and years before they even opened their store. But go on and bury your head in the sand even further about it, I’m sure GabeN will be your bff if you do it hard enough!

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Mango@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 22:10 collapse

But Tencent is worse.

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 21 Nov 2023 07:26 collapse

They will abandon stock for Tencent. Easy 100% of stocks speedrun

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc on 21 Nov 2023 02:18 next collapse

Why is everyone buying each other lately???

Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 02:22 next collapse

Corporations see others getting profit as competition, and it makes sense to consolidate profits so “Everyone wins” (everyone excluding the consumer)

kakes@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 2023 02:41 next collapse

Weakening of antitrust regulations.

Assman@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 2023 02:46 next collapse

Nobody is stopping them

WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social on 21 Nov 2023 02:56 next collapse

One school of thoughts is companies go through eras of profiting from inflation and eras of profiting from M&As. Guess an uptick in M&A would suggest they're no longer increasing profits from inflation?

Zorque@kbin.social on 21 Nov 2023 03:20 next collapse

Lately? You haven't been paying attention.

ono@lemmy.ca on 21 Nov 2023 03:27 collapse
bridge_too_close@kbin.social on 21 Nov 2023 02:18 next collapse

I can tell folks here didn't read the article. These talks were in 2018, when Stadia was still a thing.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 03:39 next collapse

Had to check to see if Stadia even existed in 2018 (it did), because it’s totally plausible for it to have come and gone in less time

Bremmy@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 2023 04:40 collapse

Wonder what the point of sharing this article is

bridge_too_close@kbin.social on 21 Nov 2023 04:48 next collapse

The Epic v Google lawsuit is bringing to light a lot of interesting tidbits of info, so I think it's just that. It's an interesting tidbit, but not really relevant to much outside the trial. That said, I do like seeing this kind of info shared, as it gives us a peek behind the curtain of these megacorps' operations.

brawleryukon@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 13:31 collapse

Baiting the anti-Epic crowd.

jacktherippah@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 2023 04:37 collapse

In case anyone didn’t read the article, this was all the way back in 2018. They’re not buying Epic any time soon, relax.

simple@lemm.ee on 21 Nov 2023 13:57 collapse

Also they discussed approaching Tencent internally, they didn’t actually make plans with them. The title sort of implies they were both in talks.