Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Calls For Unified Digital Games Store

[XC] Oj101 · Nov 30, 2021

Would he feel the same way if this did indeed happen, but not using Epic's platform? I doubt it, else Epic's platform wouldn't have been created. This is a thinly veiled way of saying HE wants the monopoly.

qubit · Nov 30, 2021

[XC] Oj101 said:
Would he feel the same way if this did indeed happen, but not using Epic's platform? I doubt it, else Epic's platform wouldn't have been created. This is a thinly veiled way of saying HE wants the monopoly.

Yeah, funny that. Why do I also get this feeling...?

usiname · Nov 30, 2021

If they want unified store they can just allow games from one store to be used in another, then you will be free to use your favorite launcher. I have to many games in to many platforms that I want on one place. The problem is that the game publishers and current stores will not allow this never.

ViperXTR · Nov 30, 2021

Hmmm

Redkaliber · Nov 30, 2021

I dont think Tim realizes the competition he is up against. Steam's app is so fleshed out and on point giving you everything you need to buy, review, download, and communicate with others. Last time I used Epic games it wouldn't even tell me how much space a game I was downloading/installing was going to take up on my SSD. Like wtf, you wanna have 1 platform and you cant even get the simplest thing right on your own? Nah, no thanks.

Pumper · Nov 30, 2021

Tim is just sad that Steam is getting new concurrent user records while EGS is losing him $500m/year, so he decided to get some attention by saying more dumb things.

R0H1T · Nov 30, 2021

Pumper said:
EGS is losing him $500m/year

Pretty sure he isn't losing a dime, the ~~investors~~ gullible are!

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Deleted member 215115 · Nov 30, 2021

qubit said:
Sounds like a utopian ideal so I can't see it happening with all the vested interests involved. This is a purely commercial arena which no one needs for the basics of life such as healthcare etc.

Personally, I find the Steam platform far and away the best for updates and overall functionality, so I wouldn't want to be forced onto some inferior one just because it was "industry standard". Never mind, never gonna happen.

What if...Steam was the standard?

Pumper · Nov 30, 2021

R0H1T said:
Pretty sure he isn't losing a dime, the ~~investors~~ gullible are!

Epic Games Announces $1 Billion Funding Round

Today Epic Games announced that it completed a $1 billion round of funding, which will allow the company to support future growth opportunities. Epic's equity valuation is now $28.7 billion. This round includes an additional $200M strategic investment from Sony Group Corporation, which builds...

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Nah, the investors are still getting back more than they put it, because Epic overall is a highly profitable business (after all, they are not investing specifically in EGS only).

londiste · Nov 30, 2021

Timelessest said:
Let me get the bullshit translator: Epic games store should be the only gaming store available for all platforms.

Absolutely but that does not make him wrong.

I do wonder why only the first part of the quote is used in the news snippet.

Tim Sweeney said:
“What the world really needs now is a single store that works with all platforms,” Sweeney said in an interview in Seoul on Tuesday. “Right now software ownership is fragmented between the iOS App Store, the Android Google Play marketplace, different stores on Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch, and then Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store.” Epic is working with developers and service providers to create a system that would allow users “to buy software in one place, knowing that they’d have it on all devices and all platforms.”

Redkaliber said:
Last time I used Epic games it wouldn't even tell me how much space a game I was downloading/installing was going to take up on my SSD. Like wtf, you wanna have 1 platform and you cant even get the simplest thing right on your own? Nah, no thanks.

That... is not the simplest thing. Other storefronts also regularly get the required space wrong. Downloaded amount, space you need to install and installed size can be and are different things. Not that they should not fix that somehow but this is far from simplest.

usiname said:
If they want unified store they can just allow games from one store to be used in another, then you will be free to use your favorite launcher. I have to many games in to many platforms that I want on one place. The problem is that the game publishers and current stores will not allow this never.

You are misreading the problem they are trying to address. It is not the competing storefronts as such but platform owners (and their inherent storefronts) that prevent a 3rd party store from operating freely enough on the platform.

qubit · Nov 30, 2021

rares495 said:
What if...Steam was the standard?

No

Deleted member 215115 · Nov 30, 2021

qubit said:
No

Yeeees

Haile Selassie · Nov 30, 2021

Good, of course all we need is a monopoly. Get real, Tim.

HD64G · Nov 30, 2021

GOG Galaxy client that integrates the other ones is the best effort and imho cannot get much better.

sepheronx · Nov 30, 2021

HD64G said:
GoG Galaxy client that integrates the other ones is the best effort and imho cannot get much better.

I also recommend using launchbox as a way to combine all the games you have installed. Great interface.

zlobby · Nov 30, 2021

Epic games CEO Tim Sweeney can suck my green p-p-p-popsicles!

HD64G said:
GoG Galaxy client that integrates the other ones is the best effort and imho cannot get much better.

The beauty of GOG is the lack of DRM. I'd rather be downloading each game manually when I need to.

WonkoTheSaneUK · Nov 30, 2021

IMHO, this is the only appropriate response to Tim Sweeney:-

zlobby · Nov 30, 2021

Redkaliber said:
I dont think Tim realizes the competition he is up against. Steam's app is so fleshed out and on point giving you everything you need to buy, review, download, and communicate with others. Last time I used Epic games it wouldn't even tell me how much space a game I was downloading/installing was going to take up on my SSD. Like wtf, you wanna have 1 platform and you cant even get the simplest thing right on your own? Nah, no thanks.

He went complete whacko a long time ago...

Chomiq · Nov 30, 2021

Ffs, it's GOG not GoG.

zlobby · Nov 30, 2021

Chomiq said:
Ffs, it's GOG not GoG.

But hear me out, could it also be gOg?

silentbogo · Nov 30, 2021

While the idea of a multi-platform storefront is interesting and appealing, I don't have much trust in Epic.
I know this pun got old a couple of years ago, but c'mon.... They want to create a universal multi-platform super-store for games, while can't build a simple shopping cart for 3 years! :nutkick:

Amig · Nov 30, 2021

Going to go out on a limb here and say Ultra, which bills itself as the Steam of the blockchain.

Given that they take a lower cut and the developers will get a percentage cut of second hand purchases.

Still has a ways to go but I think the influx of capital from retail investors to the crypto-gaming space this year will help it close the gap.

Ravenmaster · Nov 30, 2021

Lol... Tim. He calls for a unified game store but pays bribes to dev studios to make their games exclusive to his store. What a rat.

LemmingOverlord · Nov 30, 2021

I thought there was one already... something called... Steam?

Cobain · Nov 30, 2021

Worst thing about PC gaming is having 5 different store softwares installed, not being able to actually own the games without them

I am from the 90s where I created a c:/games folder with 100 games installed, games that were actually MINE with no one forcing me to install launchers.

This is why I started using piracy for 2 years now, as I knew about very fast and safe private FTPs with every game cracked.

If a single store is created, then I sell my console and stop using pirated games on PC. I will gladly buy them as I do with every GOG game (drm free) and Playstation titles.

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