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>is all about Tim Sweeney being a greedy business man Tim Sweeney provides one of the most advanced game engine technologies in the world completely for free f
by whywhywhywhy 6y ago
>is all about Tim Sweeney being a greedy business man
Tim Sweeney provides one of the most advanced game engine technologies in the world completely for free for all revenue under 1 million. After 1 million you pay 5% on revenue over that, if your game makes $1,200,000 you pay Tim Sweeney $10,000.
If you make 2 games and both games equally make 600K you pay Sweeney nothing.
It's definitely a business but not sure "greedy" describes this.
- carlosdp 6y agoThe Unreal development fund also regularly funds competitor open source game engines, like Godot Engine. Tim Sweeney is definitely not someone I'd describe as "greedy."
- enos_feedler 6y agoGreat. So if I kill someone on my walk to the public pool to save a drowning child I am not a murderer.
- bigbubba 6y agoHave you chosen the most heinous crime you can think of for this goofy analogy, in hopes the immorality of murder would tarnish Tim Sweeney by association?
- enos_feedler 6y agoMaybe subconsciously. I wish I could give my brain credit for it.
- birdyrooster 6y agoProbably just reduction ad absurdum. But I think about this every time I make one whether this rhetoric and is doing as you say. At the very least it has the smell of bias, which could make the listener believe you were trying to slander.
- enos_feedler 6y agoThe greed comes from how he puts his users and shareholders in harm’s way in an effort to reduce his bill with Apple.
- dlubarov 6y agoTim Sweeney is Epic's majority shareholder, so if you believe his actions were harmful to shareholders, doesn't that contract your stance that he was motivated by greed?
- zepto 6y agoMore than 90% of Epic is owned by Sweeney and TenCent. No other shareholders are significant. TenCent controls Epic’s access to the Chinese market. Together, they decided to put Epic’s customers in harms way.
- enos_feedler 6y agoAgreed. But those aren’t the only shareholders. They took action that will ultimately damage the others (when this whole thing plays out). Do you think every shareholder is in agreement with this move?
- zepto 6y agoNo, I just don’t think the potential harm to minority shareholders is a good argument for Sweeney’s greed which can be evaluated in other ways. I don’t think Epic will prevail, but I respect the investors right to make a bet on Sweeney if they so choose. They can sell their stake if they like. Not so the customers, who Epic could clearly have protected but chose not to for publicity reasons alone.
- enos_feedler 6y agoGreed can motivate you to make a stupid move that ultimately harms you and others. That’s what is happening here.
- zepto 6y agoSweeney has a net worth north of 5 billion dollars. Most of that comes from selling in-game currency to children. He wants a higher cut. Does that make him greedy?
- enos_feedler 6y agoHigh five!
- ribosometronome 6y agoYou're replying in a comment thread about how offering lower rates to small devs is a cynical move that hopes to buy them off for good PR.