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Epic jacks people over daily for choosing different colors of characters and clothing, aka "buying skins." This makes Epic Games BOOKU bucks, and then they want

by BTCOG 6y ago

Epic jacks people over daily for choosing different colors of characters and clothing, aka "buying skins." This makes Epic Games BOOKU bucks, and then they want to sidestep paying a 30% fee to be on a device that will capture them untold millions more in in-game purchases. The way I see it, Epic could go ahead and make their own mobile devices, spend years on creating their OWN appstore, and capture the market that way. Instead, they want to use someone else's platform and avoid paying them fees to do so.

BoorishBears 6y ago
This feels like the kind of comment I'd find on Reddit > The way I see it, Epic could go ahead and make their own mobile devices, spend years on creating their OWN appstore, and capture the market that way. I mean this is in such bad faith how do you even argue against it. Their whole point is Apple has locked people out of running the software they want to run on their phones unless you use their app store. They're leveraging this to extract money from devs. Epic would gladly make their own app store if people could run the software they want to on the iPhone, they did it on PC to the same end. - Also complaining about different colors of characters and clothing being sold as "jacking people over" Is that a joke? Once upon a time monetization that "jacked people over" was skinner boxes wrapped up in time crystals paid for with special gems that came up 99 bucks a pop. The battle pass system is an excellent example of fair monetization. It doesn't affect ability to use the game, it doesn't unduly wrap rewards in some kind of RNG lottery, it's literally as tame as monetization gets. It turns out people would rather spend $20 on optional stuff when they feel like it than paying $20 for every expansion to a game. Kinda crazy huh?

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Epic jacks people over daily for choosing different colors of characters and clothing, aka "buying skins." This makes Epic Games BOOKU bucks, and then they want

by BTCOG 6y ago

BoorishBears 6y ago
This feels like the kind of comment I'd find on Reddit > The way I see it, Epic could go ahead and make their own mobile devices, spend years on creating their OWN appstore, and capture the market that way. I mean this is in such bad faith how do you even argue against it. Their whole point is Apple has locked people out of running the software they want to run on their phones unless you use their app store. They're leveraging this to extract money from devs. Epic would gladly make their own app store if people could run the software they want to on the iPhone, they did it on PC to the same end. - Also complaining about different colors of characters and clothing being sold as "jacking people over" Is that a joke? Once upon a time monetization that "jacked people over" was skinner boxes wrapped up in time crystals paid for with special gems that came up 99 bucks a pop. The battle pass system is an excellent example of fair monetization. It doesn't affect ability to use the game, it doesn't unduly wrap rewards in some kind of RNG lottery, it's literally as tame as monetization gets. It turns out people would rather spend $20 on optional stuff when they feel like it than paying $20 for every expansion to a game. Kinda crazy huh?