Thursday, March 3rd 2022

Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp Music Marketplace & Community

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Bandcamp will become part of Epic Games. Bandcamp is an online music store and community where fans can discover, connect with, and directly support the independent musicians they love. Fair and open platforms are critical to the future of the creator economy. Epic and Bandcamp share a mission of building the most artist friendly platform that enables creators to keep the majority of their hard-earned money. Bandcamp will play an important role in Epic's vision to build out a creator marketplace ecosystem for content, technology, games, art, music and more.

"Bandcamp's mission is to help spread the healing power of music by building a community where artists thrive through the direct support of their fans," said Ethan Diamond, CEO and co-founder of Bandcamp. "In Epic, we've found a partner who believes as deeply as we do that the future of music, and art itself, depends on the creation of equitable and inclusive communities like the one our fans and artists have helped to build. We're excited to work alongside the Epic team to accelerate the realization of our mission and pursue our shared goal of empowering more creators in a fair and open way."
"We couldn't be more excited to welcome the Bandcamp team to Epic Games," said Steve Allison, Vice President and General Manager, Store at Epic Games. "Bandcamp has built an incredible community and business where up and coming artists can succeed thanks to the direct support of their fans, with one of the best revenue models and terms in music. This aligns closely with Epic's approach to supporting creators across all media and enabling them to connect directly with their fans."
Sources: Epic Games, Bandcamp
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30 Comments on Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp Music Marketplace & Community

#26
DeathtoGnomes
defaultluserOf course I do

for 25 years, Epic MegaFail Has managed to release nothing remotely interesting in their new IP.

You know things are pretty bad when your most successful New IP game is Gears - man, that is so boring; but like anything else with Epics Megafail Official Hypetrain(tm) attached to it, you can convince anyone to buy millions of copies of shovel-ware!

They've been dumping Unreal licensing money on all this shit for two decades now, but they finally produced anther Epic Money Printer with Fortnite

Now, for some fucking reason, they feel like the solution for their success is to copy the Origin Store, except without any of the interesting exclusives? So, instead, you get the Nintendo timed-exclusives model

It's not necessarily what these power-hungry numb-nuts have been doing in the last few years - it's what they have been doing since they released their first 3d game - world domination by default (because nobody else has put in the time to port something like UT to so many platforms)

Just because they still sell games doesn't mean any of them actually worth owning - and that is the saddest part of Unreal - when was the last time Epic actually made a new, good game to go along with a new engine release?
You obviously have no idea about the Unreal engine, thats the saddest part. The engine is used to more games than you can count, seeing your childish rant here, I'd bet you dont know how many games you play that use it. Its the most modifyable engine used.

Also, estimating the amount of hate you expressed, you prolly suck at Fortnite too.
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#27
Vayra86
Oh wow the usual EGS hate is strong here, well, the perceived hate of a tiny handful that is.

I guess some people never manage to elevate themselves beyond what they copy off social media to call it their 'opinion' disguised as facts that are dead wrong altogether. The land of the blind.. in 2022 still regurgitating unfounded and disproven Reddit clickbait.
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#28
thunderingroar
Im sure that an average person who shits on epic games for being "chinese spyware" extensively uses chrome and discord
defaultluserYou know things are pretty bad when your most successful New IP game is Gears - man, that is so boring
werent there times when fortnite alone had more active players than the whole steam combined?
defaultluserwhen was the last time Epic actually made a new, good game to go along with a new engine release?
And what the fuck has Valve done in terms of game development exactly? They made 1 decent game in the last decade (only to sell their VR headset) alongside a dead card game that has like 20 active players and an autobattler mobile-like game that they copied from a community mod. The only time their existing IPs get a content update is when they add more loot boxes to CSGO
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#29
Cutechri
thunderingroarIm sure that an average person who shits on epic games for being "chinese spyware" extensively uses chrome and discord
Thank you, God I hate the 'chinese spyware' argument, makes me feel like whoever I'm arguing with has a whole collection of tinfoil hats
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#30
Bomby569
Myself, i only use USA spyware, certified by Snowden.
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