Why am I not surprised that Disney is partnering with the most unethical game vendor?
Epic is not a saint but there are worse companies than them. For example Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Microsoft + ABK, 2k…
I don’t really consider those vendors, those are distributors. But if we’re including them, EA has to be the worst.
EA is better than Activision, TakeTwo, Ubisoft
Well you’re entitled to your bad opinions
Who else is that hands off with devs?
What makes Epic “the most unethical game vendor”? Real question. The criticism I always see is “I already have a library on Steam and don’t want two clients”, which is understandable, but it!a hardly unethical to just exist.
Edit: Damn, people real don’t like you asking totally fair and reasoned questions about the accepted narrative around here, huh?
They did engage in buying out studios to make their games exclusive to their platform. One prominent example was Rocket League, they bought Psyonix and made them discontinue macOS and Linux support, along with delisting the game on Steam
Yeah, that is a pretty shitty, anti-consumer practice. Still not entirely sure I’d give them the award of the most unethical, but that only speaks to the absolute shittiness of corporation, really.
They’te not even the vendor with the shittiest client anymore, ubi stole it with the redesign.
Ubi has been putting in a lot of effort in their race to the bottom lately. Apparently someone in Ubisoft looked at EA and ActiBlizzard and thought “Pfft amateurs”.
This is Epic not Valve
LEGO fortnite, was just looking at job postings
So what’s next, Fortday?
Were they in the wave of companies with layoffs recently? Wish that money went to keeping people in jobs.
This is one of those things that feels viscerally weird to me (Who the hell is playing Fortnite for the “Universe”) but then I remember Mojang and Microsoft were able to do basically the same thing (to incredibly profitable results) with… Minecraft of all things.
It’s kind of a weird state of things. In the past you had various Universes (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc) that got adapted into games and such. Now you have games that get adapted into Universes. Different culture in a way.
