• QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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    9 months ago

    And then everyone praises him for standing up against Google and Apple for crippling/banning third-party app stores, like, cool… but clearly he’s just chasing money, not doing it out of the goodness of his heart for us poor gamers

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      9 months ago

      I hate to break it to you but no company does anything out of the goodness of heart. Its called business

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        9 months ago

        Pretty much, I wouldn’t make such a blanket statement though, non-profit companies exist too

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          9 months ago

          And unfortunately many of those still operate as for-profit companies and extract wealth via administrative fees and executive salaries.

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            9 months ago

            case in point: Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla corporation(the for profit arm of Mozilla organisation) got 7 million dollars of salary in 2022

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      9 months ago

      I think it’s more of a gaben hate thing, since the epic store can’t really make a dent to steams marketshare, even when they straight up give away games.

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        9 months ago

        Sweeney is like a man-child who thinks that he should receive higher praise as his more popular counterpart simply because he takes the exact opposite stances on many issues as some kind of underdog. Blockchain economies, the legal gray zone of generative AI, Linux support; and kicking his superiors in the shin and crying to the world when he gets shoved in return.

        Epic will always be a lesser store platform, and Sweeney will always be a lesser man.