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A PR stunt from Epic and everyone's falling for it.
by ulfw 6y ago
A PR stunt from Epic and everyone's falling for it.
- 5cott0 6y agoEveryone fell for the Hey! stunt too what do you expect?
- m11a 6y agoI think the difference there is that Basecamp really is a small player compared to Apple, and it's bootstrapped. DHH's parade was a little tiring but he at least had a reasonable 'moral leg' to stand on. Epic Games doesn't even come close to that.
- tommymachine 6y agoJust thought this and came here to say the same. Well done then Epic.
- dmix 6y agoMy favourite is trying to spin two billion dollar companies fighting over percentages as some “big brother” battle. I don’t remember this part of 1984.
- eckza 6y agoWe've always been fighting against Eastasia.
- algorithmsRcool 6y agoEpic might not be the little guy, but Apple is worth almost $2 Trillion. That is a pretty big brother.
- saagarjha 6y agoEpic is not a little guy but they certainly are the little guy in this fight.
- m11a 6y agoThey're not, really. Both companies have enough money to pay for the best lawyers and keep the case going for as long as it takes. There may be a big valuation difference, but it's a fair fight for that reason. Besides, Epic Games is owned by Tencent, which is worth considerably more than Apple, in terms of market cap.
- saagarjha 6y ago> Tencent, which is worth considerably more than Apple, in terms of market cap Sorry? Apple's is hovering around $2 trillion right now, Tencent's is less than trillion is it not? And they only own a minority stake in Epic…
- searchableguy 6y agoI feel like epic has more to show off soon. Apple rejected facebook, microsoft and google in the last 2 weeks when they were trying to get their game centres approved. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357771/apple-cloud-gaming-microsoft-xcloud-google-stadia-ios-app-store-guidelines-violations https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357771/apple-cloud-gamin... https://twitter.com/FacebookGaming/status/1291708749808197633?s=20 https://twitter.com/FacebookGaming/status/129170874980819763...
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agowow, how is that not unfair competition?
- dmix 6y agoIs Apple really directly competing with Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Microsoft's xCloud, or Google's Stadia? All of Apple Arcade's games are just mobile games already available in the App store and reviewed individually. The above options are quite a different proposition and Apple's only grievance is they can't review the PC-style game content they are distributing. It's probably more like Netflix than Apple Arcade, since they are streaming arbitrary content with subscriptions. But games have always been treated different, so again they are not being uniquely targeted. (Not that I agree with blocking them)
- Razengan 6y agoDoes Microsoft allow other stores on the Xbox? What about Sony and Nintendo? Does Epic allow people to buy stuff for Fortnite from outside of Fortnite and other companies?
- TheHypnotist 6y agoI don’t see how that would work per se, but, they do let you process payments for their in game currency via Xbox, Sony, whatever platform.
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- aero-glide 6y agoSimply because Epic has the money to fight for what I believe. The lawsuit isn't just about Epic, its about the bigger ramifications.
- pferde 6y agoNo, Epic has the money to fight for what they believe, which, like all other modern corporations is getting money, more money, all the money. That's what corporations do. That's all they do. Some of them are just better at bamboozling schmucks^Wmore naive consumers into becoming their loyal fans and projecting some nobler characteristics onto these corporations, and even identifying with their brand, and becoming an unpaid extension of the corporation's PR department by arguing for them ferociously on online forums. There is nothing ideological about why Epic is doing this. The merely did their calculations and determined (or at worst made a safe bet) that the money invested in this will cause them to get more money in the long run, regardless of the outcome.
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- 0xy 6y agoA PR stunt that consumers and small businesses could benefit from. 30% decimates indie studios and makes some apps fiscally nonviable.
- tommymachine 6y agoYou’re kidding right? You think this is going to make a difference in the cut? The word you’re looking for by the way is “financially”. Fiscally is to do with taxes.
- 0xy 6y agoThe word usage was correct. [1] [1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiscally https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiscally
- tommymachine 6y agoIt literally says “public” treasuries or revenues there, public meaning government. It’s a common misconception apparently!
- smelendez 6y agoThe second definition says financial matters generally
- tommymachine 6y agoA common enough misconception to be have been included in a dictionary!
- julianlam 6y agohttps://www.lexico.com/definition/fiscal https://www.lexico.com/definition/fiscal The OED establishes a North American usage of this term as "relating to financial matters", and is not exclusive to taxes.