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What did this case have to do with any of that?

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bubblethink 3y ago
The case is about who gets what fraction of the microtransactions - Google or Epic (after accounting for the game dev's share).
- aerhardt 3y ago
  I get that but what does that have to do with whether devs use microtransactions or not in their games? The kids will be subjected to them whether Epic or Google takes the lion’s share.
  - lnxg33k1 3y ago
    I am probably from a different time, before the advent of blogs, where journalists were not half-carpet/half-tongue creatures just reading a script and asking CEOs "what is your favourite playable character?", but this article is just a scandal, there is no question that upsets the CEO, I would bet everything that I have, that if 30 years ago a CEO would be in front of some journalist saying "We want to make the world better", the journalist would have pointed out the ways the CEO's own company makes the world worser
lnxg33k1 3y ago
For me nothing , but has something to do with all this god saviour speech going on in the interview and in this thread, someone has to point out that, I thought I’d have expected a journalist from better times, not accepting to be put there just to buttlick, to also ask questions not given by the press department, when the ceo said we want to make the world better, if they would have also stopped exploting kids in order to achieve that, but now newspapers are just external press departments
- TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
  Seems everyone forgot that Epic was fined over half a billion by the FTC for “Violating Children's Privacy and Engaging in Dark Pattern Deception”. https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1849910901 https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1... They are as unethical as they come.
  - zigzag312 3y ago
    Let's not forget that Google isn't any better in that regard: > Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube-fine-ftc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube... > 15 privacy violation settlements amounting to roughly $1 billion between 2011 and 2023 with government regulators in various countries and private litigants https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_privacy_lawsuit/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_priv...
    - lnxg33k1 3y ago
      Hardly agree, so all this corp speech about making the world better.. for their shareholders maybe, but lets ignore these CEOs acting as world saviors, how annoying
- zigzag312 3y ago
  But in this case, they are doing a good thing. Or do you believe that we should not acknowledge any positive actions from someone who has done something wrong in the past?

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The case is about who gets what fraction of the microtransactions - Google or Epic (after accounting for the game dev's share).

aerhardt 3y ago
I get that but what does that have to do with whether devs use microtransactions or not in their games? The kids will be subjected to them whether Epic or Google takes the lion’s share.
- lnxg33k1 3y ago
  I am probably from a different time, before the advent of blogs, where journalists were not half-carpet/half-tongue creatures just reading a script and asking CEOs "what is your favourite playable character?", but this article is just a scandal, there is no question that upsets the CEO, I would bet everything that I have, that if 30 years ago a CEO would be in front of some journalist saying "We want to make the world better", the journalist would have pointed out the ways the CEO's own company makes the world worser

lnxg33k1 3y ago

For me nothing , but has something to do with all this god saviour speech going on in the interview and in this thread, someone has to point out that, I thought I’d have expected a journalist from better times, not accepting to be put there just to buttlick, to also ask questions not given by the press department, when the ceo said we want to make the world better, if they would have also stopped exploting kids in order to achieve that, but now newspapers are just external press departments

TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Seems everyone forgot that Epic was fined over half a billion by the FTC for “Violating Children's Privacy and Engaging in Dark Pattern Deception”. https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1849910901 https://gizmodo.com/epic-fortnite-gaming-ftc-dark-patterns-1... They are as unethical as they come.
- zigzag312 3y ago
  Let's not forget that Google isn't any better in that regard: > Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube-fine-ftc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube... > 15 privacy violation settlements amounting to roughly $1 billion between 2011 and 2023 with government regulators in various countries and private litigants https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_privacy_lawsuit/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/google_childrens_priv...
  - lnxg33k1 3y ago
    Hardly agree, so all this corp speech about making the world better.. for their shareholders maybe, but lets ignore these CEOs acting as world saviors, how annoying
zigzag312 3y ago
But in this case, they are doing a good thing. Or do you believe that we should not acknowledge any positive actions from someone who has done something wrong in the past?