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How long until Epic Games sues Valve because they're not a first-class store on Steam Deck? Companies like Apple, Valve, and Microsoft build out ecosystems and
by BuckRogers 5y ago
How long until Epic Games sues Valve because they're not a first-class store on Steam Deck?
Companies like Apple, Valve, and Microsoft build out ecosystems and take massive risks doing so, only to have someone who made millions if not billions of dollars off of these systems to come knocking.
Epic made millions if not billions off these platforms. Nintendo is locked to their store. So is Xbox and PS. Not sure why anyone else that designed it that way would be any different. If it's a closed ecosystem, it's just not for you.
If Ram pickup trucks sold door chimes on the dash's touchscreen, Epic Games would be suing for access for their alternative marketplace.
- seba_dos1 5y agoThe Deck is not closed though.
- BuckRogers 5y agoI realize this, that's why I said first class store. It’s all about money, they’d stop fighting for freedom if they weren’t losing a cut. And now with all these lawsuits, no one‘s ever going to take the multi-million dollar investment to build a quality platform ever again. Why would you, when you can just leech direct from everyone else without them even taking a percentage of your sales? May as well shut it all down. Everyone else gets to completely freeload off of your multi-year, if not multi-decade, multi-million dollar investment.
- aero-glide2 5y agoIt's Tim's fault for not having a Linux version of Epic Games.