I'm still incredibly pissed about the Bandcamp buyout. The ship was sailing smoothly and gaining ever more popularity, and in comes Tim and sinks it for many, now firing half the staff and crushing union members before pawning it off in a diminished state? F that.

Nobody forces Timmy to keep this job. He is in bed with Tencent as long as he is CEO.

100% of 0 profit is still 0, just saying.

So the 88/12 plan isn't working out that well for timmy huh..
So much money wasted on exclusives and giving away free games instead of making a launcher that's at least as decent as GoG.

Tencent have ccp control and in turn ccp tentacles in everything they have control or influence over. So Epic is fully contaminated. Zero trust deserved or given to any business controlled by political officers.

Epic are responsible though for their own decisions and following the commissars either directly or via the tencent mouthpieces. If Epic had morals they'd speak out and object and they'd change their practices for the better. They don't so they share the guilt in their devil's bargain.

Daily reminder that TenCent in 2013 payed 330$ million for a 40% which is nothingburger as Sony in the last few years payed almost 1.5 billion $ for measly 4.9%.
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That Eurogamer article... Just read all those Epic astroturfers i.e. Eisberg clones, ha ha ha. They use the same strategy as "think about children" as "think about those poor devs".

People should stop blaming Tencent. I wrote so many trimes. On Reddit on similar subreddit, posters still thinks that somehow Tencent commands Tim. This is utter BS.
Tim has bad relations with Tencent for quite some time, he even publicly attacked them that they allegedly got money from Google to not open Android store.
Tencent just take their 40% of profit.
There is a reason why Tim/Pic tried and failed to raise additional capital again last year.

@TG_Judgement
That's a good point. Both the users and the developers exist in an ecosystem where everyone expects it all to be free and that's all they are there for. Free games for the players, bribes for the developers. It's bleeding money and no one in that system is trained or able to make them money.

It is bizarre how their client has been so bad for so long. Can't bribe a developer to make a better one?

Now on Epic? Not on Epic more like. No thanks.

More tencent/epic bribes. This needs to stop.

With the recent firings and new ploys EGS is carrying out, I'm guessing Tencent's had enough of the budget bleeding. I wonder if a day will come that Tencent just dumps their stock and kills EGS in one fell swoop.