Aside from exclusives, what has he done wrong?
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Aside from exclusives, what has he done wrong?
Aside from exclusives, what has he done wrong?
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tried to drive a stake into the PC market industry with the mindset of "frick the gamers only devs matter"
>delisted Unreal games
>cancelled several projects to focus on fortnite and the engine itself
>hire 3rd party studios to make exclusive titles rather than develop it internally
FRICK YA TENCENT!
He tried to force a popular store instead of actually making a better alternative.
He chewed the remote.
i dislike him but lives 15 mins away from me and he's bringing a lot of money to the area so i don't mind
He's a gigantic quasi-autistic butthole, who happens to give away free games to make himself popular. He's the anti-John Carmack, who is actually quite likeable
Didn’t Carmack’s abrasive personality basically destroy id back in the day? Or was it Romero’s fault?
Carmack was an obsessive workaholic and Romero apparently was fricking around too much during work hours and they increasingly didn't get along. I'm more talking about Carmack's public speeches like Quakecon where he comes across as a cool guy
Is it just an impression or is Carmack extremely autistic? What I mean is every time I hear him talk the way he speaks sounds like the exaggerated parody of an autist
>is Carmack extremely autistic?
Yes. Not even a joke, he is autistic.
He's at least deep along the autism spectrum, there's a lot of people in technical professions with some kind of autism, but they make insane contributions to the world that neurotypical people would never make, so the world is probably lucky to have them
Steam is cool and everything but people are tired of game launchers.
He created another one.
It also happens to be a particularly crappy one which is plainly a webpage masquerading as a poorly performing desktop app. Steam at least is partly native and pretty snappy
>Steam at least is partly native
What part of Steam aside from the games library is native? Genuinely curious.
Settings page, friends panel, library. They at least tried, Epic game store makes Electron apps look like a masterpiece of engineering
Removed any gaming mechanic that a pleb can’t perform with less than 5 minutes of focused practice. Lowers the skill ceiling to keep the bad people stay on his games and thus paying for Foreskin Bucks
Killed the Unreal/Unreal Tournament series without any valid reason for doing so.
Canceled Unreal Tournament (Valve also stopped developing games though half-life was always consoletard garbage)
Flagship title is a mtx hellscape (Valve also does this)
Tolerates blockchain cashgrabs on his platform (steam also does this)
>Canceled Unreal Tournament
Fortnite is better Arena Shooter. Prove me wrong, boomer. Pro tip: you can't.
Literally nobody played New Unreal beta, it was DOA.
fortnite isnt an arena shooter dough
>b-b-b-but wikipedia said tha-
no
>fortnite isnt an arena shooter dough
It literally is. Read definition of arena shooter, boomer.
This is the problem with the boomers, zero critical thinking they were whole life spoonfed by boomer TV, they simply can't understand idea, unless it's carlson tucker saying it from TV screen.
its still not an arena shooter...
also, I think you should be a little more considerate towards our boomer frens
>t. barely legal 2005 chad
>its still not an arena shooter..
You are just dumb.
There is no point to talk with you further. Go back to whatching your boomer TV, boomer.
Arena shooters are multiplayer shooter games with several key characteristics. Players will start with a basic load out that is upgradable via weapons and power-ups contained at certain points in a map. Arena shooters may employ movement mechanics that allow for skillful gameplay, such as strafing to avoid gunshots, using rockets explosions from weapons to jump higher, or using items to otherwise move quickly throughout the map. These mechanics are often paired with relatively fast movement speed. Maps in arena shooters are structured in a way that facilitate interaction and combat among players, often utilizing elements like portals or jump pads to provide additional options for movement
Well I think there's quite a few games, such as GOW and halo that fall under that definition and they would not be considered arena shooters. I dont think you should get your opinions from wikipedia...
>There is no point to talk with you (kek) further. Go back to whatching your boomer TV, boomer.
But im younger than you dough. I'm starting to think your not arguing in good faith, maybe I should stop feeding you (you)s...
>EGS sucks balls
>killed off UT
>refuses to support linux out of moronic spite for valve
>Like Cliffy, abandoned PC to make quick shekels on consoles only to come crawling back when it suited him
>2008
>What he predicted turned out to be objectively true
anon moronic hacks and homosexual journalists have been clammering for PC gaming's death for DECADES, we all just need to accept it's never going to happen
If you knew how to read you'd know he didn't say PC gaming would die, stupid turd worlder.
>'Consoles have definitely left PCs behind'
>Comes crawling back a decade later
>'What he predicted turned out to be objectively true'
anyway my point is anyone who suggests that PC gaming will die off is either patently insane or a liar, take your pick as to what that makes Tim Sweeney
Pretended he was doing it for the gamers, but in truth he's just another slimy businessman (a pretty bad one at that).
This. Gaben never cried about unfair practices or shit when Steam had all the odds stacked against it. This homosexual keeps complaining and complaining about every launcher and store except his, meanwhile his dogshit store takes 5 minutes to load, 5 other minutes to navigate from tab to tab, and performs like absolute shit. Not only that, there are no fricking user reviews on games, and the general UI of stuff is horrendous. If it wasn't for Fortnite, Epic would've been bankrupt a long time ago.
>If it wasn't for Fortnite
And Unreal Engine
Killed Unreal Tournament and removed the Unreal games with single player from stores, didn't even put them on his store
Hates Linux, if it's just because Valve is involved that's even more moronic
Basically killed Quixel Mixer (a free alternative to Substance Painter/Marmoset Toolbag 4)
In general everything outside of Unreal Engine and Fortnite is poorly managed
Acts like an idiot on twitter to the point it was used against him in the Apple court case
Unreal Engine makes frickall compared to Fortnite, granted it could keep the company going when they were smaller but after Fortnite they have expanded like crazy and Fortnite is the only thing that can pay the bills now.
Still baffled why they seemingly have put no effort into their "steam killer' even after all these years
It's barely improved since release, it's impressive how shit it is
They literally thought they would have 50% of all PC gaming revenue if Valve did nothing.
There entire plan was to just show up, everyone flocks over and they win.
Since that didn't happen they now have to actually drag someone out of the Fortnite mines to work on the shit heap of a launcher.
They sets hoping bribing developers would force purple to their launcher, so why put any actual effort into it.
It didn't quite work out.
Pretty sure he said he was doing it for developers
Shouldn't be surprised only developers would buy games on his platform
He is so ugly. People overuse this word a lot, usually just to hurt someone. But this is actually one ugly motherfricker
He's a dishonest man, despicable.
>hold PC games ransom with their launcher
Consoles at least can justify it with their propierary hardware, with PC as long as you meet the minimum requirements you should be gold, making exclusivity by adding bloat is just scummy.
>LAYOFFS: epic laid off more than 830 employees because they are bleeding money
>CATASTROPHIC ENGINE: every single unreal engine game for the past 5 years has been a complete technical blunder with shit performance, stuttering, screen-space garbage, temporal smeared shit
>moronic LAWSUITS: spending millions fighting google and apple over the 30% cut they take (which is industry standard when you build a userbase and platform)
>moronic PURCHASES: wasted $273 million (according to pitchfork) buying bandcamp and sold it for $130 million (according to billboard)
>moronic PURCHASES: spent $95 million buying Cary Towne Center mall to build their new headquarters but haven't done anything with it.
: now they are paying fines for not maintaining the land
>ANTI-CONSUMER SHIT: hit with a $520 million dollar fine from the FTC AND they have to refund ALL customers that have made a purchase on fortnight after SCAMMING its users by making unintended purchases
>DYING GAME: fortnites revenue has continued to decline and epic are spending more than ever fighting for zoomer relevancy with tie-ins
>SLAVES TO CHINA: tencent are angry at epic's performance and see this as tim sweeney's fault and have threatened to pull their funding if cuts aren't made
>EGS: has been a complete failure
hate epic's monopolistic practises (shit client and forced exclusives)
are claiming free games which cost epic money
aren't spending ANY money on EGS
>>the few exclusives people buy epic only makes 12% (or 5% if UE)
>>EGS gained 48% users in 2020 (108m to 160m)
>>EGS only gained 2.94% ($680m $700m) more revenue during a pandemic
they're winning the google lawsuit though
>they are winning against the developer that allows sideloading and 3rd party installers
That's like winning a tennis match against an old man wearing an arm brace.
he is simply an arrogant hypocrite
>homosexual consolegay who cried about how PC gaming is dying for years suddenly wants me to use his garbage platform alongside GoG and Steam by bringing consolehomosexualry to PC
GoG sells DRM free games, Gaben is pushing linux and Timmy McChink is paying devs to keep their games off the other stores. One of these is not in my best interest.
Rushed in to eat up the ultra shit NFT/Bitcoin games after Valve banned them for being blatant scams.
Tried to make second Steam when nobody asked about such thing.
He should stick to what he does best. Game unironically, all his shemes are proped by blasting succes of Fortnite, it's his real success. Make games not digital distribution platforms.
Removed all Unreal games from stores
He is the most anti-consumer figure in all of video gaming. He even beats out Activision and EA. The Apple lawsuits proved that he only created the EGS as a means to challenge Apple and Google to bypass their 30% store fees. He even admitted that lowering fees was unsustainable and a gimmick.
Speaking of, he had me blocked on Shitter but has he had any dumb soapboxes lately?
Looking for validation on a cold and lonely North Carolina evening, Tim?
Ate the remote
Kingdom Hearts... like wtf man
>shields innocent PC gamers from that trash
what a hero
Tried to undermine consumer's rights at every turns while talking shit about valve for being more successful than this remote eater and his shitty shop.
He's just an idiot. Every choice he's made for his platform has been a poorly thought out idea built off his experience taking a business 101 class in college. There is no depth to his thoughts, it's insane. You can literally draw a line from a business textbook to his decision making.
>It is more expensive to get new customers than to retain them.
His thought process is to buy games that have been kickstarted and are near completion, forcing people onto his platform under the belief that they will stick around and be okay with this. It backfired every single time it happened.
>Exclusivity breeds interest.
If it worked for consoles, it'll work for PC right? Except the market is entirely different, and it'd be like trying to create a secondary market on PS5 and competing with Sony on their own platform. Epic can almost never convince publishers to publish EXCLUSIVELY on their platform, causing most people to wait 6 months for the game to release on Steam.
>Let them eat cake.
Epic has inadvertently forced themselves into a corner where they have to keep buying free games to hand out all the time to try and draw people to their platform. However, they fail to realize that most people pirate these games anyways, and the level of bad faith they've built in the community has poisoned their chances going forwards.
Tim is a moron who listens to respond instead of listening to learn.
Tried to frick over pc gamers by going console exclusive, also killing UT in the process, then crawled back like a b***h but still tried to act cool like nothing happened.
If you trust this incredible fricking homosexual to not frick you over in the long run you are a genuine actual moron and may god have mercy on your soul.
UT was shit, in 2013 it died itself, take off your nostalgia glasses. Nobody is gonna support dead game that has 1000 active players. Maybe you don't understand business but this is how it works, like it or not .
>UT was shit
stopped reading there, irrelevant opinion.
Actively fricks over Linux to the point where he bought games that had native Linux versions and killed it
>inb4 "based"
Even if you don't like Linux you have to admit that is a really scummy move. Imagine if Adobe one day said "Ok, Photoshop is now Mac exclusive and your Windows version is now useless".
Window is larger install base than Mac and Linux though
But why kill off a perfectly functioning native version that the developers before being bought out were supporting?
Yeah, I never had any real interest in Rocket League but that was some real bullshit
buying a giant mall to be a giant Google-esque HQ campus
EGS sucks absolute dick, and the social tab thing that you have to use for some games is even worse, barely fricking works
pumping money into niche exclusives (AW2 being the most recent glaring example) and then acting shocked that they don't make their money back. That was literally just a passion project for Sam Lake but apparently they didn't realize that somehow
>not allowing their platform and games to run natively on linux
>the way he expresses his opinions
>forget about unreal tournament and all its other original ips, and give all the priority to fortnite
>being a hypocrite
I don't think he is a good image to represent what is supposed to be a competition to valve and steam
>forget about unreal tournament and all its other original ips,
I don't see Bethesda/id neglecting the Quake ip, they keep releasing remasters and upgrading their games, and being that one of their games has even lower numbers than what you said
Besides you must be incredulous not to believe that UT would not be a huge success if it had the same support that Fortnite has
>Boot up Bethesda's Quake Remastered
>40 seconds of company logos
>Connecting To Bethesda.net...
>Links to DLC on the main menu
Thank you id for giving us exactly what we predicted!
>Besides you must be incredulous not to believe that UT would not be a huge success
Dude, nobody played free UT alpha when it was released, active players were in the hundreds numbers
Fortnite hit million players on the first month and 30 milions 4 months latter. Writings were on the fricking wall.
the only epic timed exclusives I've played are Outer Wilds and Hitman 3, and I was perfectly fine waiting for both of them on steam
OW I didn't even know existed until later and I was burned out af with Hitman at the time it came out on epic. Absolutely scummy shit with Hitman tho making an individual sequel exclusive, like frick right off with that. IOI deserves criticism for that too, they did not need the money
>aside from the children he murdered, what did he do wrong?
I do not like how unreal 5 is becoming industry standard and it runs like fricking shit because all these horrible devs just turn on these bloat features so we end up with "hire this man" graphics and horrible performance
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>Nobody posted the dog picture yet
BLM makes blacks look bad therefore supporting it is white supremacy. You lost.
Over 20 years later and this homosexual still hasn't given an open source release of the Unreal 1 engine even though he fricking wrote the thing himself.
Do not be fooled by his fighting against other bigger tech. He wants to dismantle "monopolies" to establish his own actual monopoly.
Frick this guy. He's lucky children are mentally destroyed little shits right now.
I hate unreal 5 with a burning passion