Good call. Even digital markets are markets and shouldnt be monopolized
I still don’t understand how some people find this controversial given how important mobile devices are to people now.
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I think it’s mostly just the “China = BAD” factor because of Tencent’s part-ownership.
Maybe it’s because Epic sucks and are total hypocrites. Google absolutely deserved to lose in court, but Epic and Sweeney can go to hell.
Sundar and Tim don’t appreciate you
For anyone that hasn’t tried it, the EGS store with 3rd party games for Android released back in January. Since then they still haven’t added a library/purchased view. You just scroll up and down to find where the games you own among games you don’t own. If it helps a company that makes a better store/game platform popular, sweet. If it’s just EGS and most other stores like on PC, it’ll be a nothing burger. If no one tries to actually improve on Google Play for customers, these stores are going to be glorified game launchers/advertisers
A crappy mobile app is par for the course for EGS, considering how bad their desktop app is
Along with the desktop store, it’s like epic and Tim specifically try to do as little as they can and then get mad at the lack of user adoption. I hope O3DE and Godot keep developing and gain in adoption to topple unreal engine and more games come out and eat away at Fortnite. If their cash cows went into decline maybe they’d start doing more than what they think people should accept as the minimal viable product to spend their money on
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Epic winning this case might just open that for them.
On the other hand, do they want to enter the mobile market? They’re a privately owned company, so they don’t have the same shirt sighted pressures to chase exponential growth endlessly, like cancer. They are already making money hand over fist.
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This is great news for anyone who is affected!
I’m sure a lot of us here won’t even notice.
