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Can't refuse? Is this the Godfather now?
by gsich 6y ago
Can't refuse? Is this the Godfather now?
- Cyph0n 6y agoDidn’t you know that Epic holds developers hostage until they agree to their terms? I thought this was common knowledge!
- DivisionSol 6y agoJust like Apple holds a gun to developer’s heads to develop for the iOS. Epic is at least bringing the joy of console exclusives to the desktop. Innovative!
- judge2020 6y agohttps://screenrant.com/borderlands-3-sales-5-million-unites-epic-store-exclusive/ https://screenrant.com/borderlands-3-sales-5-million-unites-... > a recent financial report suggested that Epic paid over $10 million to get Control as an Epic Game Store exclusive on PC, and it's possible the company has done the same to snag some of the more important releases of the year. A little hard to turn down 10 million.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago> A little hard to turn down 10 million. What if the game would have made $20m if it was non-exclusive? Exclusivity deals mean both parties - or either party - is making a huge risk or there's information-asymmetry involved.
- ericflo 6y agoAnd yet, today you can buy Control on Steam.
- jonas21 6y agoI mean, that's an ordinary business deal. Presumably, the $10m price was chosen because it's at a point where both parties believe they're benefiting from the deal. The colloquial definition of an "offer you can't refuse" is one that would be a bad deal for you, but that you have to accept anyway because otherwise the counterparty would do something even worse to you.
- damnyou 6y agoThat's not what a deal that someone "can't refuse" means -- that's just a deal, a mutually beneficial exchange, one of the foundations of society. "Can't refuse" generally means a threat of out-of-band (e.g. physical) harm if the deal isn't accepted. The Epic Store is free (as in beer) to create an account on, and there's no hardware lock-in -- Steam, the Epic Store, and other platforms like GOG Galaxy/itch.io/whatever Ubisoft has can all be run on the same computer at the same time. The situation is completely different from Apple's app store.
- edgyquant 6y agoOffer you can't refuse usually means someone has offered you more than you think you're worth so you'd be crazy to refuse it. At least in the US.
- grayfaced 6y agoApparently it has two meanings. I've only heard it in terms of implying bodily harm, and I'm also in the US. Probably a phrase to be avoided if you don't mean bodily harm because there's a high risk of misinterpretation.
- damnyou 6y agoPlease watch or rewatch The Godfather. It is a very good movie.