Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Calls For Unified Digital Games Store

[[XC] Oj101]

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]

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]

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]

Hmmm

 

[Redkaliber]

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]

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]

EGS is losing him $500m/year

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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[Deleted member 215115]

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]

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]

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.

“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.”

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.

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]

What if...Steam was the standard?

No

 

[Deleted member 215115]

No

Yeeees

 

[Haile Selassie]

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

 

[HD64G]

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

 

[sepheronx]

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]

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

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]

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

 

[zlobby]

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]

Ffs, it's GOG not GoG.

 

[zlobby]

Ffs, it's GOG not GoG.

But hear me out, could it also be gOg?

 

[silentbogo]

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!

 

[Amig]

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]

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]

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

 

[Cobain]

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.