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    1. Timdog‏ @XcloudTimdog 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TheDORIANGRAE @Htapy @TimSweeneyEpic

      I like how i never heard steam fanboy before all of this lol. I personally hope it doesnt get content blocked, if im a steam user with 700 games i dont want to use another store for a game or have to wait 6 months to get it on steam. Doesnt seem “open” at all

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    2. DORIANGRÆ λ‏ @TheDORIANGRAE 5 Apr 2019
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      That's the thing. I believe we should have the freedom to choose. Even with the way the revenue structures are we all agree those need to change. If Epic wanted to be at the forefront and make that a big message I would be celebrating that. As long as they did it in their lane

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    3. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TheDORIANGRAE @BeastFireTimdog @Htapy

      What’s more fundamental, though? Developer freedom to choose which stores to sell on, or customer freedom to buy any product at any store? The first derives from the developer’s creative freedom and ownership of the works they create.

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    4. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @TheDORIANGRAE and

      The “right to buy any product at any store” isn’t a principle of any known philosophy or economic theory. And it would directly contradict developer freedom, by forcing creators to sell their works through stores against their will, regardless of store terms.

      6 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
    5. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @TheDORIANGRAE and

      Steam’s 30% cut versus Epic’s 12% cut is just one point on the spectrum. What if another store took 50%? Should developers have to sell through that store too? What about 90%?

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    6. papahefe‏ @zero_the_clown 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @TheDORIANGRAE and

      You keep deflecting, like purposefully dodging the point. It's not that they HAVE to sell thru anywhere. It's that when you're buying exclusives away from anywhere else, you are making them HAVE to sell thru only you.

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    7. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @zero_the_clown @TheDORIANGRAE and

      In all of these cases, the developers and publishers have chosen to release exclusively with Epic because we made them a better deal than they felt they could get by releasing everywhere.

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    8. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @zero_the_clown and

      Surely if it’s okay for EA to release their own games exclusively through their store, then it’s also okay for developers, publishers, and Epic to collaboratively release their games that way, by exchanging things of value to make it mutually beneficial.

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    9. mike‏ @Htapy 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @zero_the_clown and

      That's not really a good comparison. No one is happy they have to use origin but also EA has not been paying other devs to publish exclusives on origin. If they are I'm against that too.

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    10. papahefe‏ @zero_the_clown 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @Htapy @TimSweeneyEpic and

      They aren't. The difference is EA makes the games they publish exclusively. That makes sense lol. Fortnite being exclusive makes sense, Borderlands does not.

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      Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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      Replying to @zero_the_clown @Htapy and

      If EA’s dozens of teams can create Origin exclusives, why can’t dozens of companies to collaborate to release exclusives in a new ecosystem together? In all Epic Games store devs merged, would it then be okay? If EA broke up into 30 companies, would Origin then be wrong?

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        2. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @zero_the_clown and

          I’d like to get to the bottom of this issue, because of bunch of folks have stated, sort of as a moral principle, that a big company making exclusives for its own store is okay, but smaller companies working together to build a new store with exclusives is wrong.

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        3. Tim Sweeney‏ @TimSweeneyEpic 5 Apr 2019
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @zero_the_clown and

          What’s the essence of this principle? For example, if the Epic Games store were rebuilt as a unified launcher for many companies’ games, with a separate storefront tab for each company - a Gearbox storefront, an Epic storefront, etc - would exclusives then be okay?

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        1. Undead Domain #TeamTSAN‏ @UndeadDomain 5 Apr 2019
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @zero_the_clown and

          As long as EA Games was still the key publisher, no they wouldn't be. I don't see a 2K launcher or Deep Silver Launcher, so it makes no sense for them to release a game on a single launcher and cut off a chunk market... Unless they were offered the difference they would lose.

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        2. uɐɯsǝǝɥɔdɹ - Self Isolating Bearded Vegan‏ @rpcheesman 10 Apr 2019
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          Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @zero_the_clown and

          Because they were already advertised as being available on other platforms? Your approach to exclusivity is the problem here. Go get an exclusive that wasn't advertised elsewhere, such as Steam. I'll wait.

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        3. uɐɯsǝǝɥɔdɹ - Self Isolating Bearded Vegan‏ @rpcheesman 10 Apr 2019
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          Replying to @rpcheesman @TimSweeneyEpic and

          EA both develop and publish their games. They created their monopoly. The closest analogy you have in Epic is only allowing Unreal engine games to be sold through the Epic store. Some (extremely few) EA games are available on other storefronts.

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        2. matthew jackson‏ @phenomenal256 5 Apr 2019
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          Thing is homie is that Origin exclusives ARE MADE BY EA. If you put EPIC games as exclusives on the EPIC store tahts fine. but you are strong arming consumers by bribing publishers

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        3. DORIANGRÆ λ‏ @TheDORIANGRAE 5 Apr 2019
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          Replying to @phenomenal256 @TimSweeneyEpic and

          Well, let's be honest they've killed off most of their other games because Fortnite. But Unreal Engine is a monster. They could better get their goal met by using Unreal an giving better deals using it but that would take time and work, and they aren't willing to do that

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