A free game every week, Epic funded discounts, competitive games with no pay to win mechanics, no loot boxes, cross platform play and purchasing in Fortnite across 7 platforms now being adopted by more games.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @bogan_gamer and
And if you don't believe that giving developers 88% instead of 70%, and Unreal Dev Grants, and Epic MegaGrants, and Unreal Engine and Epic Online services being freely available don't ultimately benefit consumers, you have a tenuous grip on cause and effect.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @bogan_gamer and
Given all that, why do you feel the need to engage in monopolistic practices? It really reeks. I was a huge fan of Epic Store and what you were trying to do, up until you started trying to lock people in with exclusives. It's a huge step back and not something I can support.
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Replying to @MBGretton @bogan_gamer and
Exclusives are one way for a new store offering a better deal to compete with an existing store with 90% marketshare. Developers and publishers have to band together to change the industry for the better, and this is a way to do that.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @MBGretton and
Big companies have long done this internally, for example with EA and Activision selling most of their products exclusively on their stores.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @MBGretton and
For smaller developers and publishers to get a better deal for themselves, they need to band together as Epic is facilitating by funding exclusives. We guarantee them revenue so that Epic takes the risk proportionally to the benefit Epic gets from growing a store.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @MBGretton and
To say that EA and Activision and Microsoft and Sony first party exclusives are okay but Epic third party partner exclusives aren’t is to say that only megacorporations should benefit from economies of scale in distribution, while the little guys forever pay 30% taxes.
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That’s not what “bribe” means though. If you replace all of these inflammatory words with realistic descriptions of Epic, developer and publisher actions, it’s all just ordinary stuff business do to pursue mutually beneficial opportunities together.
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