Ganbat@lemmyonline.com
on 21 Nov 2023 01:46
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That might be the grossest headline I’ve ever seen.
just_another_person@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 03:10
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Yeah, it’s like…slimy and oily. Ugh.
foggy@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 03:25
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I literally said “ew”
Fredselfish@lemmy.world
on 30 Nov 2023 21:54
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If Epic ever takes away the free games on their platform then be the day I will have no games on the platform and no reason to keep it.
I buy all my games on Steam and get free games on Epic.
S_204@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 02:08
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Google just went full evil now. Ick.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 02:13
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As per The Verge, the court case revealed email testimony between Google executives that laid out preliminary ideas and plans for the gaming platform.
In July 2018, Phil Harrison [ex-Stadia lead] wrote the following regarding a potential Epic acquisition or stake purchase:
I’ve taken a stab at a high-level strategic rationale for an investment in Epic.
Fortnite is (or can be) the leading business driver for Google across:
YouTube (already 100M+increase in game watch time MAU)
GCP (to shift 130M+players from AWS and build an anchor tenant in games)
Dav Sobota, who served as director of corporate development at Google from 2008 - 2018, replied with the following message that discussed potential plans to team up with Tencent in some way:
As a potential alternative, Phil is proposing we consider approaching Tencent to either
(a) buy Epic shares form Tencent to get more control over Epic (unclear how that helps us without a majority share) or
(b) join up with Tencent to buy 100% of Epic (and then of course we do a lot of deep commercial things with Epic).
got us so worried about the Deep State, we forgot about Deep Commercial
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
on 21 Nov 2023 07:24
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As much as I dislike Epic Games, that’s the biggest heck no for me.
tabular@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 07:46
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When your game of choice is proprietary it is part of a big, copyright trading card game.
Fades@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 08:01
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Fuck all three of those companies, fucking gross
Cyberjin@lemmy.world
on 21 Nov 2023 08:34
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That might be the grossest headline I’ve ever seen.
Yeah, it’s like…slimy and oily. Ugh.
I literally said “ew”
If Epic ever takes away the free games on their platform then be the day I will have no games on the platform and no reason to keep it.
I buy all my games on Steam and get free games on Epic.
Google just went full evil now. Ick.
got us so worried about the Deep State, we forgot about Deep Commercial
As much as I dislike Epic Games, that’s the biggest heck no for me.
When your game of choice is proprietary it is part of a big, copyright trading card game.
Fuck all three of those companies, fucking gross
Don’t worry, look what happened to stadia etc.
2018 though
Ah yes, our shitty Big Tech corporations teaming up with the shitty Chinese Big Tech corporations, I don’t see there any issues at all.
Pure evil
I know Epic gets a lot of hate, but this is definitely a possible worst case outcome. Hopefully anything but this happens instead.