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Sweeney also thought the metaverse would be a success. So much so, he invested a lot of money into it. That shit looked vibe coded before vibe coding even existed.
Out of touch billionaires feeling like they know what people really want is capitalism’s equivalent of 5 year plans.
i’m prob preaching to the choir here but i recently got back into pc gaming after a few years off and god damn epic games is truly such a bad launcher. it’s so so buggy after this “programming is hard” update they did. i’ve uninstalled it and just forgot all about it. sweeney and friends are some real morons
Sweeney is a degenerate and scumbag, not a lunatic.
The world lunatic has a specific meaning and Sweeney doesn’t qualify in my opinion.
It’s always been shit. I know they were scum and were trying to bribe people to use the epic launcher with free games. Fuck that shit. I’ll never touch their app. You know something is bad when they’re enticing you with free things and that’s all they have to offer
Their theory was that the thing preventing people from using something other than Steam was that the rest of your games were on Steam already. So from that perspective, it made sense to do what they were doing. The way they tried to outdo Steam was by being better on the supply side to the companies providing the games to their store. For some reason, it never occurred to Epic to make their store better for the consumer by doing something to improve the lives of the customers who buy the games.
I thought Epic giving away games to build a library made sense, but as I was reading your comment it occured to me that although I’m fully invested in Steam, I’ve bought more games on GoG (10+) than Epic (0) just because I trust GoG more. It is the same with Steam. I feel comfortable with buying games there not because my library is already there, buy because I trust Steam not to fuck me over.
Valve and GoG look out for their customers and gamers. Epic look out for their shareholders.
They all look out for shareholders. But the way to protect your business long term is to always compete for your customers’ dollars by trying to be better. Steam always has new features to solve new problems. GOG sells DRM-free games so that you don’t have to trust them. Epic only has Fortnite and Alan Wake II.
I collect epics free games just to cost them money. I played 1 game (a short hike) and otherwise I have around 400 games that have never even been downloaded. Never going to give them a credit card
Epic to game devs: “Either use our subscription model AI and proprietary coding language or get the fuck out”.
Somehow I slept through the fact that Tencent is a shareholer of Epic Games lol.
Tencent has its hands in so much of gaming. I don’t know if it was Larian as a company or just Baldur’s Gate 3, but they had a 30% stake in that, too.
Disney also has a significant stake in Epic, which greases the wheels for a lot of their collaborations, including an upcoming Disney shooter that sounds like it’s 80% vibe coded.
For me the worst one is that Tencent owns 100% of Grinding Gears Games, so even though I used to run maps (ultra late game content) in Path of Exile back in the day but I won’t ever go back or even touch PoE2.
Can you explain why Tencent is bad without mentioning the word China?
Can you explain why they are good?
It is an investment company using video games as a capital vector. The end.
I also avoid cafes that are supported by venture capitalists in my area. Even though they are “local” firms, not overseas ones.
International megacorporation sticks their fingers deep inside every pie that you love to contribute nothing except enshittifcation and reap profit margins out of a previously successful item?
We hate when the Saudis do it too, it isn’t just China.
How does Tencent enshittify? I see investments. They don’t meddlein the same capacity as most investors in the space.
Do you have a trail of examples of Tencent ruining games they’re acquired?
How does Tencent enshittify?
Typically by pushing for aggressive monetization, and/or adding gacha elements and/or pay-to-win features.
Others have said it well. Even if you ignore all the evil that the CCP has done, having one mega-corporation exert their influence on so many gaming companies is never a good sign.
Also a friend sent me this recently : https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/tencent-launches-ai-gaming-companion-that-watches-your-screen-and-gives-advice-3427298/
What does an AI tool have to do with anything? Is this seriously your foundation for disliking Tencent, the investment company? Interesting.
It’s not. My foundation for not liking Tencent is the CCP. But why would I like any company that pushes out crap such as AI gaming companions?
Well that isn’t that bad, maybe my Yasuo will finally reach his powerspike at 1/11 instead of 1/22 XD
What does it matter if a trash oligarchic corporation is Chinese, American or from any other country.
This kind of thinking is a massive turn off when using Piefed/Lemmy.
chloroken has almost certainly never been to China, doesn’t speak Chinese and very likely has never had Chinese friends (close enough friends to get a real perspective on their thoughts) and yet we have the most typical “fake western leftists” copytext spam about the alleged beauty of Tencent, a state-sanctioned criminal/oligarchic gang.
Chloroken very possibly speaks chinese and might also be either a bot or a salaried chinese worker that only posts to lemmy on the clock, while being banned to access it off the clock.
Why would they bother with a service with under 100K MAU?
Maybe as a part time thing covering multiple smaller services, but there is definitely no one doing full time propaganda work for Piefed + Lemmy.
Piefed user spews reactionary vitriol, shocking.
I’m a Marxist-Leninist, there is nothing fake about it. There are billions of Marxists on this planet Just because you have to fake your own ideologies doesn’t mean everyone is so sad.
Also your characterization of Tencent is hilarious. Talk about idealism, sheesh.
Love it! 💕
Especially “there are billions of us”.
It’s possible, but a lot of the reason is China.
At least you’re honest about your sinophobia.
It’s not sinophobia. The function of an actor in the market fundamentally changes when it’s tightly tied to a nation state, be it China, Saudi Arabia, or the United States.
Why the unnecessary condition when the fact alone is enough?
Because Tencent isn’t actually that bad. People see its size, that it is Chinese, and that’s enough to trigger their sinophobia. They can’t actually tell you why they hate it, though, just that scary foreign investment is bad.
Timmy has AI psychosis. I’ll never use the oligarchs gated services. But I run LM studio and comfy ui on my on hardware just to tinker. These generative models are fascinating, but sycophantic and inaccurate. Not something I would ever rely on or run regularly. Honestly I consider the models wasted storage space most of the time.
This is just indicative of a long pattern of bad business decisions on Timmy’s part. The game store, putting everything in the fortnight basket, now betting everything on hallucinating generative models. Epic probably only has a year or two left at best. With unreal and unity driving developers away, and the rapid improvement of Godot over the last 5 years. There isn’t a single secure solvent part of the company.
Epic probably only has a year or two left at best.
I have been saying that for years. Somehow they keep on truckin
But the tide is finally changing for them with tencent a major stakeholder. Tim won’t be able to just hand wave away the losses any more. Fortnight flatlining, Slop Engine 6 on the horizon etc. If Epic exists in 2028 and beyond, it will likely be without the butcher Sweeney Tim. He’ll be the head the shareholders want for all his obvious L’s.
Lets hope. Back when Twitter was still a thing, he personally insulted me because of a Linux post I replied to and I have never stopped holding a grudge. I got rando’s sending me shit for the rest of my time there. When idot elmo undid the lifetime ban on Trump, I posted that I hoped Trump died in jail and they banned me until I removed the post. Naa its good, leave the me banned IDGAF. My comment will stay.
Yep, he’s needed a punch in the nuts for a long time. But he’s finally getting to where his mouth is writing checks he’ll never be able to cash. Sadly, he’s a billionaire. So he can insulate himself from a lot of it. But he needs to go for the company state.
Actually seeing how stupid the he has been and is. His desire for AI to do everything for him makes a lot of sense. He certainly doesn’t have a lot of intelligence of his own anymore.
But I run LM studio and comfy ui on my on hardware just to tinker. These generative models are fascinating, but sycophantic and inaccurate.
To be fair, models you can run on your local hardware are severely limited in comparison to what big models like deepseek 4.1, glm 5.3, gpt sol, Claude opus etc can accomplish.
It’s true those models can do more, but they are still sycophantic hallucinating machines. Whose outputs need to still be rigorously checked. So much so that between the cost they charge you to run them and the time you spend. You don’t really save anything over just learning and doing it yourself generally.
I watched a Youtube video the other day of a guy using these frontier models to generate code and assets. He wanted to make his own Mario 64 like. All said and done by the end of the project that he’d done for the video. He’d spent nearly three thousand dollars for low quality assets and real jank.
The funniest thing about the launcher performance is that a few days ago the Steam client received an update that made it surprisingly snappy. On my PC, it outperforms Epic’s own self-reported (i.e. “I measured mine at home”) numbers.
I’d still prefer a proper GUI toolkit rather than twenty instances of
steamwebhelper, but that’s not the point.
